Schools

Published November 19, 2019

Bellview Elementary School welcomes new principal

EASTPOINTE — Eastpointe’s Bellview Elementary welcomed a new principal Nov. 4. Jason Perrin joined the district and got to work to do his part in educating the community’s children.

Published November 18, 2019

Macomb Township Chronicle

Cheyenne hosts first Veterans Walk of Honor

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — This Veterans Day, Nov. 11, over 20 veterans with family members who attend Cheyenne Elementary School in Macomb Township participated in the school’s first Veterans Walk of Honor.

Published November 18, 2019

Shelby - Utica News

Soldier who students wrote letters to visits them on Veterans Day

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A classroom at a school in Shelby Township received a surprise visit from a soldier on Veterans Day.

Published November 15, 2019

Warren Weekly

Students shop until they ‘drop’

WARREN — The Christmas spirit has already arrived in Van Dyke Public Schools this season.

Published November 15, 2019

Warren Weekly

WWTHS teacher receives New Marketing Teacher of the Year award

WARREN — Amy Ghattas’ enthusiasm for teaching at Warren Woods Tower High School is infectious.

Published November 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Color guard co-captain raises the flag despite injury

STERLING HEIGHTS — As a co-captain of the Utica High School color guard, Lauren Kerr is used to being a right-hand woman to the coach and the rest of the team. But with an injured left arm, it’s been a little harder this fall.

Published November 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Woodworkers make board for billionaire Branson

STERLING HEIGHTS — When Henry Ford II High School senior Hannah Frrokaj was assigned a woodworking class project of making a paddleboard for billionaire Richard Branson, her first task was to find out who he was.

Published November 14, 2019

West Bloomfield Beacon

Students campaign to make monarch butterfly the state insect

WEST BLOOMFIELD — About 125 second grade students at a local elementary school are on a quest to make the monarch butterfly the official state insect.

Martha Maitlen, 78, of Farmington Hills, accepts the 2019 Farmington Public Schools Senior Extraordinaire Award from Superintendent Robert Hererra at the Senior Adult Breakfast Oct. 22.

Published November 12, 2019

Farmington Press

Farmington Schools honors 2019 Senior Extraordinaire Awardee

FARMINGTON — Farmington Public Schools have announced the 2019 Senior Extraordinaire Awardee.

Published November 12, 2019

Macomb Township Chronicle

Family Night Out at Dakota High focuses on youth vaping

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Dakota High School’s first Family Night Out of the school year was all about vaping awareness.

Published November 12, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Chippewa Valley Schools collects items to assist local families

CLINTON TOWNSHIP/MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Chippewa Valley Schools bus drivers, along with high school honors students from around the district, came together Nov. 2-3 at the Walmart on Hall Road in Clinton Township for the third annual Stuff the Bus program.

Published November 12, 2019

Macomb Township Chronicle

Lutheran North HOSA students participate in second annual competition

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Lutheran North High School is one of 14 Michigan schools competing in a friendly challenge to register new organ and tissue donors and inspire support for donations.

Published November 12, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Rocket Fiber expansion in GPPSS moves forward

GROSSE POINTES — Plans to add a high-speed fiber network in the Grosse Pointe Public School System continue.

Published November 12, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

School millage proposal, sinking fund pass Nov. 5

GROSSE POINTES — Voters in the Grosse Pointe Public School System passed a millage proposal and a sinking fund proposal Nov. 5.

Published November 12, 2019

Woodward Talk

Berkley students ready to tackle next play, ‘Kodachrome’

BERKLEY — The Berkley High School BeDrama Club’s fall play won’t take on the unusual structure one might expect.

Published November 12, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Teachers union files labor charge against Utica Community Schools

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS — The Utica Education Association, a union representing teachers in the Utica Community Schools district, recently appealed to a state labor commission amid ongoing collective bargaining talks.

Published November 12, 2019

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Action sports stars give anti-bullying message to Eastpointe High students

EASTPOINTE — The students at Eastpointe High School got an extreme lesson in bullying prevention thanks to a presentation performed by Action Sports Alliance Entertainment Nov. 6.

Published November 12, 2019

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Roseville Scholarship Foundation receives $10,000 donation

ROSEVILLE — The Roseville Community Schools Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit group within Roseville Community Schools that helps students pay for college, received a $10,000 donation from the AT&T Foundation Nov. 1.

Students in Renee Atkins’ class at Rodgers Elementary School in Lake Shore Public Schools make pancakes to connect with the book “If You Give a Pig a Pancake.” Atkins received a grant to help fund her “literature and lunch” program for moderately cognitively impaired students.

Published November 8, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Local teachers get classroom cash grants

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Books, cooking supplies, puppets and more will hit classrooms in St. Clair Shores thanks to cash grants from Michigan Schools & Government Credit Union.

Published November 7, 2019

West Bloomfield Beacon

Site of former Eagle Elementary to be developed into condos

WEST BLOOMFIELD — The West Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees recently approved zoning changes at the site of the former Eagle Elementary School that pave the way for the development of a 52-unit condominium complex, tentatively titled Gramercy Ridge.