In a 6-1 vote, the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees approved the motion to enter into an interlocal agreement with Oakland County to have limited access to their emergency notification system which will send out emergency notices to those within the township.

A new magistrate may be added to the docket at the 48th District Court after Birmingham City Commissioners offered their approval during the Monday, August 24, meeting.

The Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees on Monday, August 24, voted unanimously to approve a fourth magistrate be put into the rotating schedule for the 48th District Court.

Pipeline Management Company was awarded the 2026 sanitary sewer rehabilitation program at the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, August 24, but not before some heated words were exchanged between trustees.

Board of education members in the Birmingham Public Schools received a number of complaints, and a few comments of support, this week during the public comment portion of the board’s meeting on Tuesday, August 25, about the “bell-to-bell” school policy banning smartphones and other wireless devices starting with the new school year. A new Michigan law banning smartphone use during K-12 instruction times was signed into law in February of this year, although the specific impl

Birmingham police are reportedly investigating a car theft that resulted in an injured suspect after he allegedly got into a collision with another car. Police reported that they got a call the night of Friday, August 14, by the car owner saying someone was inside the car that was parked in his driveway in the 300 block of Puritan. Officers initially found the car and suspect speeding near W. Lincoln and Henrietta, but they were unable to stop him after trying to pull him ov

A 19-year-old man and 18-year-old man were caught and given citations for disorderly conduct in Birmingham the night of Sunday, August 16, for using a bullhorn on top of a parking structure near the 300 block of N. Old Woodward. One of them also allegedly threw food at a bystander, according to police.

A credit card taken from an unlocked vehicle on Wooddale Road in Bloomfield Township on Sunday, August 16, was put to use at a gas station outside the community. Police said the victim advised that their vehicle had been gone through the night prior. They reported their wallet and keys had been stolen from inside. The vehicle was parked in the driveway, unlocked, with the key fob left inside. The victim’s credit card was used at a gas station out of the area. The case was tur

Bloomfield Township police Thursday, August 13, were dispatched to a retail fraud in progress at Target, located at 2400 S. Telegraph Road, and two persons were arrested with stolen merchandise. Two subjects, a white male and white female, were seen concealing items on their person, according to the police report. Officers arrived on scene and located the two suspects walking down the stairs past all points of purchase. The officers made contact with the suspects and discove

Doctors Jennifer Blitz Sobol and Louis Sobol are practicing physicians who live in West Bloomfield. About 20 years ago, three months after launching her medical practice, Sobol’s twin boys were born nine weeks ahead of her due date.