City deadlocked on mayor, pro tem spots
Birmingham City Commissioners remain deadlocked over the selection of a new mayor and mayor pro tem after two rounds of voting during the Monday, November 9, meeting resulted in 3-3 ties, leaving the city’s current leadership in place.
Multi-story development approved for city
A new mixed-use, multi-story development is set to be constructed at the southeast corner of Woodward Avenue and Maple Road after Birmingham’s Planning Board unanimously approved the final site plan and design during the Wednesday, October 28, meeting.
Priority Waste township services criticized
Discussion of Bloomfield Township’s ever growing problem with the solid waste services it receives from Priority Waste was a last minute addition to the board of trustees agenda at the Monday, November 11 meeting, where all trustees were vocal about their current dissatisfaction with the company.
Birmingham city manager receives pay hike
Birmingham City Manager Jana Ecker is set to receive a 5.7 percent pay increase after city commissioners voted during the Monday, November 9, meeting to increase her compensation package following a closed door session for an annual evaluation.
Road advisory panel recommendations discussed
Discussions continued around the Road Advisory Committee’s (RAC) recommendations at the Monday, November 9, Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting. The board mostly focused on the RAC’s recommendation to replace the safety path millage with a supplemental road millage of the same amount.
E-bike classes in township have started
The Bloomfield Township Police Department has announced the first dates for its new E-Bike Safety Course.
BBAC Holiday Shop getting ready to open
For the 46th year the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC) will host its annual pop-up Holiday Shop, bringing together hundreds of juried artists, offering thousands of unique, hand-crafted items across every price point, from thoughtful $5 stocking stuffers to show-stopping heirloom gifts.
Arrest for giving sexual material to children
A Southfield man was arrested by Birmingham police and charged with four counts of distributing sexually explicit material to children and one count of assaulting, resisting, obstructing a police officer.
Arrest of driver made for May crash on I-75
The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office recently issued a warrant for Sidney Williams charging him with operating while license suspended, revoked, or denied causing serious injury, a five-year felony, for his role in a May accident on Interstate 75 in Bloomfield Township that left five person injured.
Man caught smoking marijuana at bus stop
After getting caught smoking marijuana at a public bus stop near the area of Maple and Woodward Avenue in Birmingham, a Detroit man was arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant.
Four teens steal liquor at Kroger location
The Bloomfield Township Police Department on Sunday, November 8, were called to the Kroger, store located at 3600 W. Maple Road for a retail fraud incident involving four suspects.
Far below Michigan waters operates a disposal system
The trucks arrived in Michigan carrying liquid waste from another state’s disaster – the 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Their destination was an industrial site in Romulus, where pumps could send the cargo more than half a mile underground. The shipments were legal, tracked by hazardous-waste manifests and bound for a permitted facility. Yet they surprised many state and local officials, exposing a contradiction that turned an obscure disposal system into a public question – when waste vanishes beneath Michigan, what keeps it there?
OVER AND OUT?
With time running out until Election Day, Republican gubernatorial candidate John James has lost national funding support and has been focusing on building “word of mouth” support at campaign stops and social media to get his message out. Along with that messaging comes numerous reports that James, who currently represents the U.S. House district for southern Macomb County, along with Rochester and Rochester Hills, but chose not to run again to aim for the governor’s mansion, has scrubbed a lot of his website and socials of any signs of President Donald Trump, including a picture of the prez on the website home page.
