MOUNT CLEMENS — On May 4, Mount Clemens city commissioners approved moving its online service software from a local server and to a cloud program. City commissioners voted to begin transitioning the city’s BS&A software from  BS&A.net to the BS&A Cloud platform.

LANSING — A bipartisan proposal working its way through the state Legislature aims to help first responders who need treatment for psychological trauma. State representatives Mike McFall, D-Hazel Park, and Mike Mueller, R-Linden, recently introduced House Bills 5952 and 5953.

SOUTHFIELD — The Southfield Police Department and city officials came together on May 8 for an annual police memorial to remember officers Donald Harding and James McMahon, who died in the line of duty.

FERNDLE — Ferndale Public Schools will be hosting a meeting to gauge community interest in the creation of a district foundation.

ROSEVILLE — A Warren man pleaded no contest May 5 to charges related to a fatal hit-and-run that happened in Roseville in 2023.

UTICA — Utica High School senior drummer Nick Frazier was named an Outstanding Jazz Musician at this year’s Michigan State Band and Orchestra Jazz Festival.

MACOMB COUNTY — A Warren district court judge allegedly involved in an alcohol-related traffic crash in Sterling Heights earlier this year will see his case play out in a jurisdiction outside of Macomb County.

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — According to police, while a Kent County detective was conducting an online operation posing as a 14-year-old girl, a self-described 51-year-old married man from Michigan contacted the supposedly 14-year-old girl.

SOUTHFIELD — The Southfield Police Department held a press conference on May 7 detailing the events of a nonfatal shooting that occurred May 3 at an Exxon gas station on Southfield Road.

BERKLEY — The Berkley Public Safety Department is turning to the public to get help on a larceny that took place this week.

CLAWSON — Adam Duberstein was appointed to fill the vacant Clawson City Council seat in a unanimous vote on May 5. His seat is set to expire at the November 2027 election.

FERNDALE — Applications for the vacant seat on the Ferndale City Council have now closed.

EASTPOINTE — The majority of the Eastpointe Community Schools residents who came out to the polls for the May 5 election, or cast their absentee ballots, approved a nonhomestead operating millage replacement that will generate funding for the district. 

ROSEVILLE — On May 5, the Roseville Community Schools $175 million zero-tax-rate-increase bond passed at the polls.

OAKLAND COUNTY — The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is looking for victims who may have unintentionally doled out money to a new scam that claims to support a fake summer camp for youth with special needs.

ROCHESTER/ROCHESTER HILLS — A woman from Rochester Hills has filed a class action lawsuit against Goldfish Swim School claiming the company failed to protect customers from being secretly video recorded while changing.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — One day each year, leaders from various agencies in the Grosse Pointes and Harper Woods — including government, schools, churches, hospitals and nonprofits — assemble to interact and share a meal.

FERNDALE — A staple of Ferndale’s celebration of art will be back in the residential neighborhoods this weekend.

WARREN — Instead of a house standing on the property on Toepfer Road where John Hofmann, treasurer of Urban Seed, grew up, there sits a small community garden.