SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS — Local information technology professionals are being invited to take part in a partnership between Microsoft and Utica Community Schools.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Packard Proving Grounds Historic Site launched a shoe drive fundraiser July 1 that will run through Sept. 16. 

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center has announced the arrival of its newest animal ambassador, a red-tailed hawk named Artemis.

MACOMB COUNTY — In a time where finances are all over the headlines, two of the region’s most prominent politicians took time in late June to discuss the state of Macomb County’s economy.

MACOMB COUNTY — The Macomb Intermediate School District is offering students in several of the county’s school districts the chance to see firsthand if they want to explore a future in education.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Mark LaCombe, a Stevenson High School Manufacturing, Automation and Design Engineering teacher, was named Educator of the Year by the Michigan Design Council and was recognized at the Michigan Design Prize 2023 Awards Ceremony on June 7.

News & Notes from the 6/28/23 Shelby-Utica News

UTICA —The Utica Public Library is hosting its summer reading program, and readers have the chance to earn prizes for reading between June 12 and July 22.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A new law involving cellphones and driving might have people changing their minds about using their phones by hand while driving later this week.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A local businesswoman and a student were among those honored June 6 at the Winning Futures annual awards celebration in Madison Heights.

News & Notes from the 6/21/23 Shelby-Utica News

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Four County Community Foundation is all ears when it comes to hearing about local inventors and their innovative solutions to problems.

STERLING HEIGHTS/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/MACOMB TOWNSHIP — There’s a reason that the Utica Ford II softball team got  massive applause at the school’s graduation.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Macomb Community College South Campus in Warren last month hosted approximately 2,500 students, educators and parents from Macomb County and beyond at the 38th annual Elementary Science Olympiad Tournament.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office said that it arrested a 66-year-old man from Shelby Township for allegedly possessing child sexually abusive material June 2.

News & Notes from the 6/7/23 Shelby-Utica News

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A local boy has made a special connection with an author who will be coming to the Shelby Township Library to speak about his lifelong struggle with a speech condition called apraxia.

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS — Addison Oleksinski has been making moves with her art creations ever since she was a little kid. Now, she is one of the youngest students to earn national scholastic honors and a trip to Carnegie Hall in New York City.

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS — At the Michigan Association of Family and Consumer Sciences spring conference, Stevenson High School family and consumer sciences teacher Kristina Robinson was named the 2023 Teacher of the Year.  

UTICA — Utica is welcoming its new police chief, who already has plans in line for the city in the near future.