Community center vision, space needs reviewed

Birmingham’s new community and senior center project continues to move along with an updated vision, goals and objectives which were approved Monday, February 10, by the city commission which is now moving to the next step of determining programming space for the new building. >>>

Bistro Joe’s will now be under new ownership

Restaurateurs Deni Bozinovski and Matt Moore, owners of now more than 16 restaurants under M&D Woodward LLC, are set to take over a Birmingham bistro, Bistro Joe’s, located at 34244 Woodward Avenue inside Papa Joe’s market, after city commissioners approved the ownership transfer during the Monday, February 12, meeting. >>>

Hearing called on two city bistros liquor licenses

During the annual review of liquor license applications for Birmingham establishments at the Monday, February 12, commission meeting, two establishments, Zana and 220 Merrill, were singled out for public hearings and potential application intervention due to multiple code violations. >>>

Township board continues budget discussion

Another fiscal year is almost in the books for Bloomfield Township, and with its 2025 fiscal ear coming near an end, the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees took one of many steps towards getting their budget for the 2026 fiscal year settled on Monday, February 10. >>>

Temporary move of township meetings okayed

For those looking to attend the next Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting – or any other board or commission meeting in the near future – make note that as of Monday, February 17, all meetings will be held at the Cable Studio while the auditorium undergoes renovations. >>>

public safety

Serial thieves hit Birmingham jewelry store

Two men known to have committed thefts in Chicago and Wayne, Michigan, struck a Birmingham jewelry store located on the 100 block of Willits St. on Thursday, February 6, getting away with a watch valued at about $75,000.>>>

Argument leads to assault inside hotel restaurant

After arguing inside the Townsend Hotel’s restaurant in Birmingham on Friday, February 7, a man hit his business partner on the forehead and left the scene, according to Birmingham police. >>>

Thousands in items, cash taken from vehicles

Over $10,000 in cash and miscellaneous items were taken from seven vehicles at S. Boulevard and Squirrel Road in Bloomfield Township on Sunday, February 9. >>>

Arrest made in township case of stolen jewelry

An arrest was made on Thursday, February 6, regarding a larceny case that happened last December in Bloomfield Township. >>>

$6,000 in sunglasses stolen from Lens Crafters

Two suspects took approximately $6,000 worth of sunglasses on Wednesday, February 5, from the Lens Crafters on S. Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township. >>>

Troy police witness Birmingham package theft

While conducting surveillance of a mail theft suspect in Birmingham on Thursday, February 6, Troy police officers saw two men steal a package off the porch of a home on the 1400 block of Webster. >>>

Doorbell camera catches attempted car break-in

A man living on the 1000 block of Fairway Drive in Birmingham hit a stroke of luck when he was alerted of a suspicious person on his property by his doorbell camera. >>>

Unlocked vehicle stolen from home driveway

Bloomfield Village residents reported to police that their Ford Explorer was stolen from their home on Tuesday, February 5. >>>

Flower bouquet stolen out of grocery store

A suspect accused of stealing a $200 bouquet of flowers from a Birmingham grocery store at the 600 block of East Maple Road on Monday, February 3, was let off with a trespassing warning after the store manager decided not to press charges. >>>

longform features

FDA: Controlling what goes in food products

Prompted in part by the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle and its examination of the unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meat packing industry, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation a century ago for the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). >>>

oakland confidential

SOS SPECULATION

While there’s been plenty of speculation about Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson running for governor in 2026 (she has now formally announced) when both she and Gretchen Whitmer will be boxed out of added time in their current posts, thanks to term limits, not much of anything has been written about who might try to become the next SOS. >>>

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