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Community/senior center on Monday agenda
The fate of a proposed Birmingham Community and Senior Center will likely be decided next Monday, August 11, when the city commission meets.
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Portrait of Birmingham by the (phone) numbers
A portrait of downtown Birmingham, drawn with data provided by a location analytics firm, was unveiled at the Thursday, August 7, monthly meeting of the Business Shopping District (BSD) board of directors.
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Birmingham Cruise event next Saturday
The annual Woodward Dream Cruise is just a week away and the city of Birmingham will be hosting a cruise-related event next Saturday, August 16.
Lifetime locker theft for $1,500 cash, credit card
A member at Lifetime Fitness, 4106 Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township, had $1,500 cash, his driver’s license, a credit card, and his phone’s SIM card stolen out of his locked locker on Thursday, July 31, between noon and 1 p.m.
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Nike shoes and shorts taken at Dick’s location
Bloomfield Township police on Tuesday, July 29, around 7 p.m. responded to Dick’s Sporting Goods, located at 2105 Telegraph Road, for a report of merchandise theft.
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Driver arrested for masturbating in public
Birmingham police officers on Tuesday, July 29, at about 1 p.m. were dispatched to North Old Woodward and Oak, where a 53-year-old Bloomfield Hills woman and her 19-year old son from Franklin reported seeing a man masturbating while driving a red convertible with its roof down on North Old Woodward at Willits.
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Mooning incident ends with arrest of suspect
A Birmingham man was arrested for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct in a traffic incident on Sunday, August 3.
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Teen spit on during city road rage incident
A 17-year-old from Rochester Hills was the victim of a road rage incident on the night of Thursday, July 31, near the 500 block of N. Old Woodward in Birmingham during which a dog bowl was thrown at his car and he was spit on.
Agriculture gains pose aquatic life concerns
Land and water harmonize to compose Michigan into an outdoorsman’s paradise with lakes and streams and rivers bordered by four of the Great Lakes – Superior, Huron, Erie and Michigan. Much like a Lennon and McCartney masterpiece, land and water create the paradise but contaminants from residential, industry and agriculture threaten to break up that harmony.
Financial disclosures for money raised in the second quarter of the year have just been released, with some senatorial candidates crowing in joy, and others not quite blasting their horn. On the Democratic side, state Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak, Birmingham, Detroit) announced in a video, along with her preschool-aged daughter, grinning and wearing heart-shaped sunglasses, “This is unbelievable. We just closed the first quarter of our campaign since launching in April and we have raised more than $2.1 million… And you know what I’m most proud of? We got donations from all 83 counties in Michigan.”
