Warren Weekly

Published September 25, 2019

Your guide to this weekend's events

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

Dennings: ‘I can help make Warren a better place to live, work’

WARREN — Mark Dennings made a strategic decision not to talk to the press or take part in candidate forums before the Warren City Council’s District 3 primary election.

Published September 25, 2019

Moore: ‘I think that my experience can be helpful’

WARREN — Mindy Moore said she worked with Warren’s administrators and her peers to make the tough decisions needed to shore up the city’s finances when she served on the City Council from 2003 to 2007, before the Great Recession.

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 24, 2019

Warren marijuana drama continues in court

MOUNT CLEMENS/WARREN — Judge Carl Marlinga has again issued a restraining order enjoining the city of Warren from licensing medical marijuana dispensaries, pending further examination of the methodology used to score applications.

Published September 24, 2019

Two shot in Center Line, investigation ongoing

CENTER LINE — Two people were found with gunshot wounds Sept. 22 after an emergency call sent Center Line public safety officers to a home on Edward Avenue, west of Van Dyke Avenue.

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.

A Lincoln Middle School student participates in the school’s Constitution Day celebration Sept. 17.

Published September 20, 2019

Lincoln Middle School students recognize Constitution Day

WARREN — Red, white and blue filled the Van Dyke Public Schools auditorium Sept. 17 as the Lincoln Middle School student body recognized Constitution Day.

Published September 20, 2019

‘Oversight’ late notice of canceled event rankles local groups

WARREN — The Warren Community Center was closed Sept. 7-15 for cleaning and renovations.

Published September 20, 2019

Concert to benefit motorcycle crash victims

WARREN/CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP — The local music community is banding together to help two friends with their finances as they recover from a motorcycle crash.

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.

A settlement in a lawsuit between a medical marijuana facilities license applicant, the city of Warren and members of the city’s Medical Marihuana Review Committee was reached before Judge Carl Marlinga in Macomb County Circuit Court on Sept. 17. The deal required the committee to hold a public meeting in the auditorium of the Warren Community Center at 4 p.m. Sept. 20.

Published September 19, 2019

Deal allows Warren to move forward with medical marijuana licenses

WARREN — Legal wrangling over medical marijuana facilities licensing in Warren continues to take twists and turns, but it now looks like a batch of up to 15 applications could soon go to the full City Council for consideration.

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

Drivers stuck in traffic have options beyond radio

METRO DETROIT — When bumper-to-bumper traffic adds another 20 or 30 minutes to your daily commute, you might need something a little more potent than Billboard’s Top 40 hits.

Published September 18, 2019

Smart tech is taking over the real estate industry

METRO DETROIT — When homebuyers are looking for a new place to settle in, they’re looking beyond the stainless steel appliances that were the centerpiece of homeownership 10 years ago. Today, consumers want to walk into a home already curated with smart technology.