MACOMB TOWNSHIP — The Macomb Township Planning Commission met on March 24 and gave its recommendation for changes being made at a Sheetz gas station under construction on the township’s border.

METRO DETROIT –– As severe weather rears its head throughout Michigan, there are important tools and tips Michiganders should keep in mind when protecting themselves and their families. 

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — At the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education meeting March 23, a resolution to enter into two separate interlocal agreements with the Oakland County Parks and Recreation Commission for Bowers Farm and the E.L. Johnson Nature Center passed unanimously.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Business View Publishing recently recognized Shelby Township as a “best managed” community for 2025.

METRO DETROIT/LANSING — A bipartisan proposal currently in committee in the state Legislature aims to crack down on scams at virtual currency kiosks — machines that are ubiquitous but undocumented, and where stolen money is rarely recovered.

WARREN — The Warren Police Department is giving people access to more resources aimed at improving support for vulnerable persons.

WARREN — A group of Fitzgerald Public Schools educators lined up inside the high school band room behind Dionne Boza.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The West Bloomfield Board of Trustees presented a proclamation March 23 to the family of the late Ken Macon, describing him as a stalwart supporter of the community who also served as a member of the Library Board. 

ROSEVILLE — Demolition has begun on a former Gratiot Avenue hotel and sports bar.

FARMINGTON HILLS — Police now believe that the driver of a black SUV was driving the wrong way on Interstate 696 when he reportedly collided head-on into a white van, killing an 81-yar-old man from Detroit in the early morning hours of March 13.

WARREN/MOUNT CLEMENS — A former Detroit police officer has been remanded to jail pending sentencing after he entered a no contest plea to a computer crime linked to inappropriate text messages sent to a Warren minor.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Grissom Middle School students in Mary Bullis’ eighth grade leadership class will remember U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe for a long time.

WARREN — The Warren Police Department’s first-ever Commissioner’s Awards Ceremony recently honored the department’s top employees.

METRO DETROIT — The Federal Bureau of Investigations held a press conference March 30 with more insight on the possible motives behind the March 12 attack on Temple Israel. 

BIRMINGHAM — From March 25 to 28, Detroit was the host of the 60th conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, and that show has yielded two inspired ceramics exhibits that will be on display at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center through April 30.

METRO DETROIT — Music fans, this is your day. We know that on April 18, you’ll head to your favorite independent music store for the annual Record Store Day.

MOUNT CLEMENS — Falling bits of the facade at the former Macomb Daily building forced Mount Clemens authorities to secure the area around it in late March.

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — Kruze Detorrian Jelks, a 35-year-old man from Pontiac, was charged in March after allegedly exposing himself to a 14-year-old girl in Bloomfield Hills on Feb. 17.

ROYAL OAK — Mosi, Aziza and Fahari, the Detroit Zoo’s three newest members of the African lion exhibit, experienced the outside world for the very first time on March 30.