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Published January 26, 2021

New City public safety director ‘beyond grateful’ for help in reaching this point

GROSSE POINTE CITY — The expression that “it takes a village” doesn’t just apply to raising children — it also applies to preparing community leaders.

Published January 26, 2021

Grosse Pointe Times

Former Grosse Pointe Shores lieutenant named as new public safety director

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Grosse Pointe Shores has a new public safety director, but he’s no stranger to the community.

Dr. Kathy Rollinger recently was named the 2020 Family Physician of the Year by the Michigan Association of Osteopathic Physicians.

Published January 26, 2021

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Roseville native named Family Physician of the Year

ROSEVILLE — Dr. Kathy Rollinger has been practicing medicine in southeast Michigan for her entire career and has saved and changed untold lives during that time.

Published January 26, 2021

Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal

Local business helps Mount Clemens with restaurant support fund

MOUNT CLEMENS — Neway Creative has been offering a new way of working since the middle of the pandemic.

Published January 25, 2021

C&G Newspapers

UCS parapro runs to more than 40 schools in the Utica District

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS — A Utica Community Schools paraprofessional announced that he would be attempting to run to every school in the district and invited people to cheer him on while he ran Jan. 9.

Published January 25, 2021

C&G Newspapers

Local man bakes thousands of cookies for hospital staffers

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Jon Kohlmann discovered that chocolate chip cookies and personalized notes can go a long way.

Local couple shares details of first baby born in 2021 at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

Published January 24, 2021

West Bloomfield Beacon

Couple shares details of first baby born in 2021 at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The first baby born in 2021 at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital came at 1:04 am Jan. 1.

Raphael Washington becomes new Wayne County sheriff

Published January 23, 2021

Advertiser Times

Raphael Washington becomes new Wayne County sheriff

DETROIT — Wayne County and many across Michigan are mourning the death of Sheriff Benny Napoleon, while also welcoming his successor, Raphael Washington, who was previously serving under Napoleon as the deputy chief of jail and courts.

Assistant Superintendent of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bobbie Goodrum was selected by the Board of Education Jan. 5 as the district’s interim superintendent.

Published January 14, 2021

Farmington Press

Farmington Board of Education selects interim superintendent

FARMINGTON/HILLS — The Farmington Public Schools Board of Education approved the appointment, in a 6-0 vote, of a new interim superintendent to serve for the reminder of the school year, starting Jan. 23, following Superintendent Robert Herrera’s resignation.

Published January 13, 2021

Macomb Township Chronicle

Operation Desert Storm veteran reflects for 30th anniversary

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Jan. 16 marks 30 years from when Operation Desert Storm began.

After nearly 30 years as the director of the West Bloomfield Township Public Library, Clara Bohrer recently retired. Bohrer is pictured in 2010 with former First Lady Michelle Obama and local resident Cameron Thomas-Shah after the library was one of five in the United States to be awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service.

Published January 10, 2021

West Bloomfield Beacon

Longtime West Bloomfield library director retires

WEST BLOOMFIELD — Nearly 30 years ago, Clara Bohrer received a phone call to inform her that she had been hired as the director of the West Bloomfield Township Public Library.

Published January 8, 2021

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Roseville High grad completes 2,650-mile hike

ROSEVILLE — A 2003 Roseville High School graduate is sharing his life-changing experience of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.

Published January 8, 2021

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Eastpointe mourns the death of DPW employee

EASTPOINTE — The city of Eastpointe is mourning the death of a municipal employee from injuries suffered while working on a Department of Public Works project.

Published January 8, 2021

West Bloomfield Beacon

New West Bloomfield library director takes the helm

WEST BLOOMFIELD — As someone who grew up in Troy and served as the Troy Public Library director for more than 13 years, it was going to take a pretty good opportunity for Cathy Russ to leave her position there.

Published December 22, 2020

Grosse Pointe Times

Longtime Shores administrator promoted

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — After serving as Grosse Pointe Shores’ interim city manager for the last 15 months, Tom Krolczyk is getting what Shores officials say is a well-earned promotion to make him a permanent top city administrator.

Published December 22, 2020

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Birmingham author celebrates past in new novel

BIRMINGHAM/BINGHAM FARMS — While a world of political tensions rages around him, for a young Birmingham boy, life’s toughest battles are the ones faced in the halls of his school, and sometimes, vicariously through the players on the field at Detroit’s Tigers Stadium.

Southfield Public Schools Special Education Director Lanissa Laura Freeman was recognized with an award.

Published December 19, 2020

Southfield Sun

Southfield special education director recognized with award

SOUTHFIELD — This past summer, Southfield Public Schools Special Education Director Lanissa Laura Freeman took out her pen and paper after getting a call from a representative from Oakland Schools.

Melinda Lis is pictured with the 2020 National Adoption Excellence Award. Lis accepted the honor Nov. 17 at a virtual National Adoption Month Celebration.

Published December 8, 2020

Southfield Sun

Spaulding for Children’s Melinda Lis honored for work with foster and adoptive families

SOUTHFIELD — The year 2020 has been very hard for a lot of people. Perhaps one of the groups that has been hit the hardest are those who work in child welfare services, specifically those who do direct work in the Child and Family Services Unit at the Southfield-based company Spaulding for Children.

Published December 8, 2020

Grosse Pointe Times

ULS graduate student earns stamp of approval at U of M

GROSSE POINTE WOODS/ANN ARBOR — Several family members of Maria Fields attended the University of Michigan, and now she is following in their footsteps.

Published December 8, 2020

Grosse Pointe Times

Local Scout goes on the adventures of a lifetime

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — At only 16, Charles Logan III, of Grosse Pointe Farms, has already seen more of America’s remote and beautiful national sites than most people will experience in a lifetime.