ROYAL OAK — There is a new superintendent of Royal Oak Schools and his name is John Tafelski.

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Building steam upon last year’s fire, the Dakota High School winter drumline team has continued its run of percussive success with a world finals appearance to finish its 2025 season.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Bowers Academy in Bloomfield Hills, the district’s alternative educational program, will look different next year.

TROY — Seven students from Troy Public Schools were among the 158 who received top honors at Michigan History Day’s State Finals competition on April 19.

ROSEVILLE — Alumni and former staff members of Roseville Community Schools went back to class May 10.

HARRISON TOWNSHIP/ROSEVILLE — About 75 salmon were released to their new home in Lake St. Clair on May 2 by the three fifth grade classes from Green Elementary School in Roseville Community Schools.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Michigan Schools and Government Credit Union has awarded more than $130,000 in scholarships to 57 Michigan residents, including a Utica High School student.

ROCHESTER/ROCHESTER HILLS/OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — This month, the district’s first orchestra program students will graduate, hitting a high note for the Rochester Community Schools music program.

FERNDALE/BERKLEY — The end of the school year is rapidly approaching, as senior students are preparing to graduate from high school and head into the “real world.”

BIRMINGHAM — Birmingham Public Schools students and staff have taken the initiative to make their school more green.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Gene L. Klida Utica Academy for International Studies joined 153 of the top quiz bowl teams from small public high schools at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare Chicago for the 2025 Small School National Championship Tournament to determine who was the best April 26.

WARREN — In the spring of 1969, James Edoff had just graduated from Kalamazoo College with biology and mathematics degrees, and began looking for a teaching position when he interviewed in the Fitzgerald Public Schools district.

EASTPOINTE — Toward the end of 1999, when there was talk of Y2K and what the future would look like in the 2000s and beyond, the Kantner Elementary School community found a way to immortalize the time period.

STERLING HEIGHTS — “All rise,” bailiff Tyrese Vance-Anderson directed as the “State of Oregon versus Langley Parker” trial got underway during third hour in the Grissom Middle School media center.

MADISON HEIGHTS — Nearly 58% of participating voters rejected a Lamphere Schools tax proposal during the special election May 6. The proposal would have raised taxes by hundreds of dollars each year to pay for enhancements at buildings across the district.

MOUNT CLEMENS — Residents of the Mount Clemens Community Schools district delivered a resounding defeat to the district’s bond proposal on May 6, with 1,843 votes against the proposal versus the 912 votes in favor.

TROY — Troy High School social studies teacher Ryan Werenka has been selected for the 2025 James Madison Fellowship, an award presented annually by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.

SOUTHFIELD — Forever Illustrating Real Entertainment — F.I.R.E. — partnered with The Church of Messiah, Seize the Smoke and four metro Detroit schools for the 2025 “Silence the Violence” Battle of the Bands. The event was dedicated to encouraging youth to pick up instruments instead of weapons.

TROY — Community members are set to have an opportunity to view the work of a wide variety of robotics teams during the Troy Public Library’s (TPL) second annual Robotics Demonstration Day in the auxiliary gym at Troy High School.

NOVI — Aarush Arun, a sophomore at Novi High School, volunteers his time regularly. Last year alone, he volunteered around 105 hours. However, he said many people he knows are having trouble finding volunteer opportunities that fit their interests.