Sterling Heights Sentry

Published June 26, 2019

Your guide to this weekend's events

Published June 25, 2019

Learn the do’s and don’ts of dumpster rental

METRO DETROIT — With spring and summer cleaning comes a need for a place to put all that junk. While it can feel good to declutter and eliminate years of remodeling leftovers and junk that isn’t fit to donate, sometimes it becomes too much to put out on the curb.

Published June 25, 2019

Michigan ratified the 19th Amendment a century ago

METRO DETROIT — If Oakland County Commissioner Shelley Goodman Taub wants to have a nice belly laugh, she thinks back to some of the reasons suffrage opponents gave for why women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

Published June 25, 2019

Complaints prompt city to pause hike-bike trail work

Johnson Acho said he built his home in northwestern Sterling Heights when he was 26, after buying the lot at a premium because of the nature preserve.

Published June 25, 2019

Featured artist lets the paint tell the story

Mary Shahbazi recalls her first experiences, as a girl with a part-Cherokee background and an interest in art, drawing in the dirt with a stick when she was about 4.

Sterling Heights and the Chaldean Community Foundation recently reached a compromise on building a wall around part of the latter’s property.

Published June 25, 2019

Compromise reached on Chaldean foundation wall

The Sterling Heights City Council recently finished climbing over a controversy involving a fence and a proposed wall around the Chaldean Community Foundation.

Published June 21, 2019

Progress to flow on relief drain project

When day after day of rain hits Sterling Heights, the Sterling Relief Drain plays a key role in sweeping the water away.

Published June 19, 2019

The Friday 5 — June 21-23

Your guide to this weekend's events

Published June 18, 2019

Plants can add privacy, beauty to yards

METRO DETROIT — Having wonderful, friendly neighbors is always nice, but it’s also good to have a little privacy on your yard. Many communities have homes that are close together, and that can take away the feeling of serenity and tranquility in the property. Plants, such as trees, bushes and flowers, can be used to add not only beauty to a yard, but also some privacy in both the front and backyards.

Published June 18, 2019

Pink hair don’t care

METRO DETROIT — These days, to rock vivid hair color, you don’t have to be an Instagram baddie or a punk rocker. You just need the courage and a little time.

Published June 18, 2019

Bar trivia serves up competition with a twist

METRO DETROIT — At 6:45 p.m. on a sunny, warm Thursday in June, Augie’s Bar and Grill in Madison Heights is close to empty. It’s just too nice outside. But by 6:55 p.m., the dining room is full. Thursday at Augie’s means it’s time for some bar trivia — two hours’ worth of questions read off by a host, while players on teams write down their answers and turn them in for points. Each correct answer is worth a certain number of points, and the highest-scoring team wins.

Published June 17, 2019

West Nile virus found in mosquito in Pontiac

PONTIAC — Oakland County health officials urge protection against mosquitoes after a mosquito in Pontiac tested positive for West Nile virus.

Published June 14, 2019

Kindness tree project takes root at Messmore

STERLING HEIGHTS — At Messmore Elementary School, a tree was recently the symbolic key to helping classmates treat one another with respect. Sixth grade Messmore Elementary student Lindsay Tomaszewski, who is also the student president, worked alongside Messmore Principal Renee Fiema to put a Random Acts of Kindness Tree on one of the school walls.

Published June 14, 2019

Polish festival to cook up new dishes

STERLING HEIGHTS — The summer is a busy time for Leonard Palermino, the executive chef and general manager at the American-Polish Century Club. That’s when he presides over a kitchen that is busy preparing pierogi dumplings, kielbasa sausage, “city chicken” kabobs and other dishes that will be eaten at the American Polish Festival and Craft Show in July.

Published June 14, 2019

New running trail reaches finish line

STERLING HEIGHTS — Keith Hanson remembers what it was like to grow up in Sterling Heights and join the Parks and Recreation Department programs as a child more than four decades ago.

Published June 12, 2019

The Friday 5 — June 14-16

Your guide to this weekend's events

Published June 12, 2019

Yoga becomes a new experience outside the studio

METRO DETROIT — If you’re moving soon, don’t even think about asking Tina Iulianelli or Amy Anderson to help haul your stuff. Their cars’ trunks are filled to the brim with yoga mats, blocks and resistance bands.

Published June 12, 2019

It’s a good time for chimney inspections

METRO DETROIT — The sun and warm days are finally upon us. But that doesn’t mean it’s not time to think about winter. According to local chimney care experts and firefighting professionals, now is the time to get your chimney inspected and thoroughly swept in order to be ready to reignite those logs once the temperatures drop again.

Retired Troy nurse Sherry Hoover uses cannabis products to battle cancer — products she said she cannot obtain due to new state rules.

Published June 11, 2019

Troy woman with cancer sues state over marijuana access

TROY — A Troy woman battling stage 4 mastocytosis leukemia has sued the state agency that regulates marijuana over rules that took effect April 1, rules that she said have dried up the supply of pot she needs to continue with her treatment.

Published June 11, 2019

Beloved local bartender honored at Charles H. Wright Museum

DETROIT — To those who knew him, Jerome Adams, of Eastpointe, was the kind of man who was always there with a smile to give and a hand to lend … and if that hand included one of his refreshing cocktails, it was all the better.