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Township road advisory committee update
Last April the Bloomfield Township Road Advisory Committee – made up primarily of volunteer residents – held their inaugural meeting and this week they brought their first update to the board to present all they had found out about township’s roads during the last six months.
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Changes for Jax Kar Wash site plan okayed
After a 7-0 vote from the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees in favor of the new site plan, the existing Bloomfield Car Wash at 4025 Telegraph Road in the township is on its way to becoming an improved Jax Kar Warsh.
City Home invader takes expensive jewelry
Jewelry and other items in a Birmingham home worth roughly $30,000 were reportedly stolen from a home on the 700 block of S. Glenhurst Drive during a Tuesday, October 14, home invasion.
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Suspect in 2024 identity theft case caught
After over a year since the incident, a 25-year-old Sterling Heights man was arrested on a felony warrant for a Birmingham identity theft case that took place last September.
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Senior arrested for pulling gun on repo agent
An 81-year-old Birmingham man was arrested the night of Tuesday, October 14, after allegedly pulling a gun on a repossession agent in the process of repossessing his car at the 1000 block of E. 14 Mile Road.
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Scammers use charity magazine as ruse
An alleged scammer used charity magazine sales to swindle a Birmingham resident living at the 1000 block of Cole Avenue out of over $720 earlier this month.
Donald Trump made fighting “woke left diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)” practices the cornerstone of his education policy during his 2024 presidential campaign. Trump made good on these promises when, in January 2025, he issued multiple executive orders targeting DEI across the federal government, federal contractors, and educational institutions. The orders, which have been challenged in court, aim to end DEI initiatives by cutting funding to K-12 schools and instituting investigations.
We wish we could say politicians never make an error or put their foot in their mouths, but then we’d probably have to change the definition of ‘politician.’ Lately, two candidates competing for the Democratic primary U.S. Senate nod have been taking turns making cringeworthy errors. First, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-Oakland County) – or her campaign apparatus – erroneously claimed in a social media post that she had won the endorsement of Berrien County Commissioner Chokwe Pitchford.
