The candidates' positions on the election issues
Our choices for the August ballot
Lincoln Yard and Little Yard closing down
Birmingham’s Lincoln Yard and its casual takeout restaurant Little Yard will close July 29 after a little more than two years in business.
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Homeowner facing charges for pool party
The Birmingham homeowner who rented out his home on Westchester Way in mid-June where an advertised pool party drew a couple hundred persons is now facing six misdemeanor charges in district court, along with the person who rented the home and organized the party who is facing two charges.
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School board candidates have no opposition
General election voters in the Bloomfield Hills Schools and the Birmingham Schools districts will be facing a ballot in which school board candidates have no opposition this November.
Group hits Dick’s for stolen merchandise
A group of eight males and females hit Dick’s Sporting Goods, 2105 S. Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township, on Sunday, July 19, making off with stolen merchandise from the store.
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Wallets, gun taken from unlocked vehicles
Bloomfield Township police are reporting several larcenies from vehicles on Saturday, July 18.
Watershed issues: addressing poor ratings, solutions
Michigan lakes, streams, and rivers get their life from the watersheds that feed them, and the health of those watersheds is crucial to the life of those waterbodies. With 63 major watersheds in Michigan that break into another 267 sub-watersheds, these networks of lakes and streams eventually make their way to the Great Lakes. To dive deeper into efforts to maintain the health of watersheds, five Southeast Michigan Watersheds, including the Clinton River, Rouge River, Huron River, Detroit River, and River Raisin, received a Report Card from the University of Maryland’s Environmental Science Center (UMCES). The project began in 2021 and included multiple partners and stakeholders. The nearly three-year project cost in excess of $500,000 and was funded by the Erb Family Foundation which introduced the idea of the report card to the watershed groups.
OVERLOOKED RACE
What was once one of Michigan’s most visible – and vital – congressional districts has seemingly disappeared from political conversation as politicians, politicos and pollsters wrangle to debate and predetermine the outcome of the U.S. Senate, gubernatorial, and congressional races in the 10th and 7th districts. Yet there is nary a whisper about the candidates running in MI-11 to replace Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) in the covetable Oakland County district.
