Grosse Pointe Times

Published September 23, 2021

Outgoing Grosse Pointe Park officials honored during foundation fundraiser

GROSSE POINTE PARK — The nonprofit Grosse Pointe Park Foundation used its annual fundraiser to honor two outgoing longtime city officials.

Published September 22, 2021

Take small steps now to be prepared when disaster strikes

METRO DETROIT — Fire, flood and storm damage could strike at any time. The difference between disaster and making it through could hinge on how much one is prepared for the worst.

Published September 22, 2021

No pension contribution needed for GPCRDA this year

GROSSE POINTES/HARPER WOODS — The Grosse Pointes-Clinton Refuse Disposal Authority Board got some good financial news at its most recent meeting Sept. 14 via Zoom.

Published September 22, 2021

Concours d’Elegance returns

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — The Grosse Pointe Farms Foundation’s Concours d’Elegance is back this year and promises to be better than ever.

Published September 22, 2021

Coping with the pandemic in the classroom

METRO DETROIT — In April 2020 — one month after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer closed schools statewide because of COVID-19 — Warren Consolidated Schools staff members established a social and emotional learning committee.

Published September 21, 2021

New flags to wave proudly in classrooms

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — The Louisa St. Clair Society chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution kicked off Constitution Week — Sept. 17 to 23 — in a special way this year.

Published September 21, 2021

Police investigating allegations against local lawmaker

METRO DETROIT — A local lawmaker has been stripped of his committee assignments and has been served with a personal protection order by a colleague in the state House of Representatives.

Published September 10, 2021

Cooking demonstration will feed people in need

GROSSE POINTES — Grosse Pointe Park City Councilman Vikas Relan will be sharing how to make popular dishes from the northern region of India, where his parents grew up, in an online fundraiser to help feed hungry children.

Published September 9, 2021

Silver medalist, Berkley native recounts journey that led to Olympic dreams

BERKLEY — More than a month ago, weightlifter Kate Nye was in an arena in Tokyo waiting to go before judges in an attempt to pursue her dreams of becoming an Olympic medalist.

Published September 8, 2021

Experts discuss dorm room glow-ups

METRO DETROIT — As colleges and universities welcome students back, those who opt to reside on campus are faced with the challenge of how to decorate often small and blank-walled dormitories.

Published September 8, 2021

It’s time for a screen time reset

METRO DETROIT — Screen time has been in the spotlight for years, and there are even apps that monitor and enforce limits on the amount of time users spend on a phone, tablet or other electronic device.

Drummer and “huge” Rolling Stones fan Brian Pastoria, of Warren, got an autograph from Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts after they both appeared in the book “Sticks ‘N’ Skins.” Watts died Aug. 24.

Published September 8, 2021

Local fans, musicians remember drummer Charlie Watts

METRO DETROIT — Rock ‘n’ roll fans around the world were saddened when Charlie Watts — one of music’s best-known drummers who, for decades, provided the backbeat for the Rolling Stones — died Aug. 24.

Published September 8, 2021

Developers go ‘back to the drawing board’ on plan for 389 St. Clair

GROSSE POINTE CITY — To paraphrase the title of a song by the Clash, should it stay or should it go?

Michigan Chapter Walkers — like those pictured here — will return to the Detroit Zoo for the annual Alzheimer’s Association Detroit Walk to End Alzheimer’s this fall.

Published September 8, 2021

Walkers hope to make strides in battle against Alzheimer’s disease

ROYAL OAK — Alzheimer’s disease stole Colton Dale’s chance to get to know his grandfather, who developed it when Dale was very young. What sticks in Dale’s mind is the way his otherwise stoic father reacted to his own father’s deteriorating mental state.

Published September 8, 2021

20th anniversary of 9/11 inspires reflection among local officials, resident

GROSSE POINTES — It was a devastating day that changed life in America in a matter of hours. Sept. 11, 2001, dawned like any other, but before the morning was over, a band of terrorists would claim thousands of innocent lives as the nation watched television news coverage in horror.

Published September 7, 2021

Wayne County requirement leads to masking in Grosse Pointe schools

GROSSE POINTES — Students, faculty, staff and visitors to Grosse Pointe Public School System facilities will be masking up again when the new school year starts Sept. 7 — after the Sept. 9 issue of the Grosse Pointe Times went to press.

Published September 7, 2021

MLK historical marker celebrated at South

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Representatives from the Grosse Pointe Public School System, Michigan Historical Commission and Grosse Pointe Board of Realtors were among those on hand Aug. 30 to celebrate a state historical marker at Grosse Pointe South High School commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 speech there.

Published September 7, 2021

Eye doctor and car show organizer takes visionary approach to his work

GROSSE POINTES — He might not be featured on the cover of national magazines or have his own TED Talk, but if sight is one day restored to the blind and visually impaired, Philip Hessburg will have played an important role in it.

Published August 30, 2021

Grosse Pointe Shores says, ‘See you in September,’ as in-person council meetings return

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — In-person City Council meetings are returning sooner than expected in Grosse Pointe Shores.

Published August 30, 2021

Michigan State Fair to return to in-person programming

NOVI — After a year of fully virtual programming, the Michigan State Fair, hosted at the Suburban Collection Showplace, will return to in-person festivities for the 2021 season.