Elle Hartje was just two-years-old when she strapped on her first pair of ice skates; today she is a forward for the New York Sirens in the Professional Women’s Hockey League. “As a kid, I was always, always on the go,” she said. “I grew up in a family with four kids and we played every sport you can think of. You name it, we did it.” At just three-years-old, Hartje joined her first hockey league. She spent much of her childhood at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hil

For more than a century, The Community House Association nonprofit has believed stronger communities are built when people come together to help one another. That belief remains at the heart of our work.

As summer winds down, the hard work is just beginning. The hard work is the renovation of 400 E. Lincoln, where Next will provide programs and services to Birmingham's 50+ community. The City of Birmingham purchased the building in 2023, but the vision and the need for a space designed specifically for seniors took root long before that. Back in 2013, an Ad Hoc Committee, the Joint Senior Services Commission, identified the same priorities we still hold today: adequate space

Voters across Oakland County, and in neighboring Wayne County, will be determining the fate of a special millage request in November to help fund the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Historical Society, and like with all millage requests – new or renewal – it’s critical that detailed information about this proposal be shared well in advance of ballots being cast. This millage request has been lingering for nearly two years, thanks to a deba

Ten cents. A dime. Two nickels. In today's world, where the penny has been discontinued from production, what can a dime actually buy you? It turns out, in the city of Birmingham, it has the potential to purchase $420,000 worth of actions to protect the city's beautiful natural resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of life for residents, businesses and visitors. That's an amazing value for 10 cents. Yet the Birmingham City Commission isn't as cert

Birmingham police arrested a Detroit woman the afternoon of Thursday, August 13, at a grocery store in the 600 block of E. Maple after allegedly pushing a cart of stolen items into the parking lot and walking away towards Maple Road. The police report stated that officers found the woman and found drug paraphernalia and credit cards belonging to other people on her at the time. No charges were indicated in the report, but the woman was placed under arrest.

A Madison Heights woman was caught and cited for malicious destruction of property after taking a marker to another woman’s car the morning of Tuesday, August 11, inside the Park Street parking structure in Birmingham. The victim claimed that she parked her car in the structure and came back about an hour later to find someone had written on it. Witnesses were able to help Birmingham police officers find the suspected vandal, the Madison Heights woman, who said she was having

After stealing over $200 worth of liquor from a Birmingham grocery store in the 600 block of E. Maple the night of Tuesday, August 4, a man was arrested and handed off to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office on an outstanding warrant. The man was seen leaving the grocery store with a canvas bag full of liquor bottles, according to a customer, and was last seen at the bus stop near Woodward and Maple. When officers found the man, they also found the bag with five liquor bottles

After leaving her car unlocked and unattended for about a half hour, a Birmingham woman’s backpack with her laptop inside had been stolen from the interior of her car. The woman reportedly told Birmingham police officers that her car was parked in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store the morning of Wednesday, August 12, when the theft took place. Birmingham police reported that, with the help of the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office, the laptop was found and recovered, but

An Oak Park woman driving through Birmingham the morning of Friday, August 7, was stopped for speeding and ultimately arrested after city police officers found she had an outstanding warrant from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. Birmingham police reported that the woman was stopped after an officer caught her driving 60 mph in a 40 mph area while going north on Woodward near Wimbleton. The officer later found the outstanding warrant after checking her information. Birming