Troy Times

Published September 25, 2019

Your guide to this weekend's events

Published September 25, 2019

Troy School District plans to buy ITT building for $4M

TROY — The Niles Center, which houses the Troy School District College and Career High School and continuing education programs, has outlived its useful life, according to the Troy School District Board of Education, which recently initiated the purchase of a new building for the programs.

Published September 25, 2019

Planning Commission approves plans for Beaumont Urgent Care in Troy

TROY — Plans have been approved for a one-story, 5,000-square-foot Beaumont Urgent Care facility on just over half an acre at the northwest corner of Dequindre and Square Lake roads.

Published September 25, 2019

Justice Department claims bias by city against Muslim group

TROY — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against the city of Troy alleging that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 in not allowing a Muslim community group to establish a mosque.

Published September 25, 2019

Chabad Jewish Center opens doors in Troy

TROY — Embracing the belief that “every single Jew is important,” Rabbi Menachem Caytak and his wife, Chana Caytak, opened the doors to the Chabad Jewish Center in Troy last week.

Published September 25, 2019

Libraries want businesses to hook up cardholders with discounts

TROY/MACOMB COUNTY — Libraries want to give their patrons discounts at local businesses — and they are asking local businesses to help.

Published September 25, 2019

Ready or not, here comes ‘Read by Grade Three’

METRO DETROIT — The stakes for Michigan’s third grade students are high this school year as the retention portion of the state’s “Read by Grade Three” law takes effect in May 2020 after this year’s statewide assessments.

Published September 25, 2019

From obesity and food obsession to real health

METRO DETROIT — It was nearly seven years and 175 pounds ago when Jill Clark, of Troy, decided she’d had just about enough.

Published September 25, 2019

Setting the scene this Halloween

METRO DETROIT — Glen Williams humbly denies being an expert on the art of the “home haunt,” but the resident of Grosse Pointe Farms clearly knows a thing or two after years of transforming his Mack Avenue home into a Halloween wonderland.

Published September 24, 2019

11 counties at ‘high risk’ for deadly mosquito-borne virus

METRO DETROIT — Health officials are reminding people to protect themselves from mosquito bites this fall after seeing an increase in Eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and deadly virus spread by mosquitoes.

Published September 23, 2019

Oakland County students join in global climate crisis strike

OAKLAND COUNTY — Young people around the world skipped out on class Sept. 20 to participate in the Global Climate Strike, a demonstration of young people advocating for a reduction and even an end to the use of fossil fuels to protect the Earth for their generation and beyond.

Published September 20, 2019

Behind the Wheel: Man restores 1970 ’Cuda that he bought as a teen

In the summer of 1970, just before his 15th birthday, Macomb Township resident Robert Sumpter spotted a brand-new, Army green 1970 Plymouth Barracuda in “Motor Trend” magazine, and it was love at first sight.

Published September 18, 2019

The Friday 5 — Sept. 20-22

Your guide to this weekend's events

Published September 18, 2019

All lanes of I-75 to close this weekend from I-696 to Square Lake Road

TROY — All lanes of north- and southbound Interstate 75 will close from 11 p.m. Sept. 20 to 5 a.m. Sept. 23 between Interstate 696 and the business loop of Square Lake Road.

Published September 18, 2019

Road Commission attacks phragmites on local roadways

OAKLAND COUNTY — This month, the Road Commission for Oakland County is working to eradicate phragmites, an aggressive reed that chokes out native plants, interferes with roadside drainage, easily catches fire and blocks roadways.

Published September 18, 2019

Troy nurse volunteers to help those in hurricane’s way

TROY — Debbie Bricely, 61, recently was mobilized to help people affected by Hurricane Dorian as a member of the National Disaster Medical System Disaster Medical Assistance Team.

Published September 18, 2019

Troy City Council re-examines probe on ethics

TROY — It remains unclear what the next step will be after the Troy City Council took no action to retain an attorney to investigate whether any members of the council played a role in creating a “culture of complicity,” as referenced in a recent forensic audit, that enabled former City Manager Brian Kischnick’s wrongdoing and crimes.

Published September 18, 2019

Dogs support ‘vulnerable’ witnesses in Troy court

TROY — Walking into a courtroom to testify and face cross-examination can be daunting.

Published September 18, 2019

Man charged with murder in Troy parking lot fatal crash

TROY — A Detroit man who police said crashed into and killed JV Binkley, 48, a vending machine supplier, in a Troy office parking lot May 24 will face a felony murder charge.

Published September 18, 2019

Troy students top state averages in M-STEP

TROY — Troy School District students’ standardized test scores are well above state and county averages, according to results from the Michigan Department of Education.