Warren Weekly

Published February 8, 2019

MACOMB COUNTY — Meals on Wheels, a program run by the Macomb Community Action Office of Senior Services, is in dire need of volunteers for the winter months.

Published February 8, 2019

Center Line upgrades logo, cyber brand

CENTER LINE — Center Line has rolled out a new logo and retooled its online portals in an attempt to lure development, showcase its perceived strengths and inspire new families to take up roots in the city.

Published February 8, 2019

WWT record club hits the right notes

WARREN — Warren Woods Tower High School sophomore Isabella Vehar wasn’t expecting to like the songs on Charles Mingus’ “Ah Um” record. The instrumental album, released in 1959, isn’t something to which she normally would listen. But after giving the music a try, Vehar was jazzed.

Published February 8, 2019

Public Works publishes updated drain maps

MACOMB COUNTY — The Macomb County Public Works Office recently published a new series of maps that highlight the county’s stormwater drains. The maps, which are available for public view on the MCPWO website, are the first that show the location of every county drain since a hand-drawn map was created in the 1970s.

Published February 7, 2019

GM filing lays out cuts at Tech Center in Warren

WARREN — Plans to cut 1,298 salaried workers at the General Motors Technical Center campus in Warren and how that will affect their salaries and benefits in the weeks to come were addressed in a company filing with the state of Michigan dated Feb. 4.

Published February 6, 2019

The Friday 5 — Feb. 8-10

Your guide to this weekend's events

Published February 6, 2019

Budgeting on the ‘other side of the Great Recession’

METRO DETROIT — When they started out, it was all about advocating for low-income housing during the Great Recession. But as the economy grew, so did the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan, said Brian Rakovitis, the manager of financial empowerment initiatives at the Lansing-based CEDAM.

Published February 6, 2019

‘Tidying Up’ is not only easy on the eyes, but on the mind

METRO DETROIT — Does that old T-shirt from high school in the back of your drawer bring you joy? What about the box of receipts from 2015 lurking in your basement? There’s a new method of organization sweeping the nation called KonMari, and it’s all about focusing on keeping what brings you joy and getting rid of what doesn’t. The method was developed by Japanese organizing consultant Marie Kondo, who has written four books on the subject.

Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith responded to recent news of “secret” forfeiture accounts he allegedly maintained by saying “Make no mistake, there’s nothing off the books or secret about these accounts.”

Published February 5, 2019

Macomb County prosecutor responds to claims of ‘secret’ forfeiture accounts

MACOMB COUNTY — A Jan. 23 press release from attorney Frank Cusumano states that the Macomb County corporation counsel released the long-sought checking account records of “secret” forfeiture accounts maintained by Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith.

Published February 5, 2019

Basketball coach faces sexual assault charges in Warren

WARREN — New Haven High School’s girls varsity basketball coach has been remanded to the Macomb County Jail with bail set at $250,000 following his arrest and arraignment on sexual assault charges involving a 17-year-old student who plays on the team.

A September 2018 photo from inside a Macomb County shows the fatberg. Now, researchers at Wayne State University are utilizing a state grant to further study such phenomena.

Published February 4, 2019

Wayne State University researchers to study fatbergs

METRO DETROIT — Macomb County residents may recall how a “fatberg” was discovered and was subsequently removed at the Clintondale Pump Station in September 2018. Now, local college professors are studying how to prevent such entities from backing up drains in the future.

Published February 4, 2019

Police seek driver after cyclist struck, killed in Warren

WARREN — Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run collision with a bicyclist on Groesbeck Highway, just north of 10 Mile Road, at about 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3.

Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller and Chapaton Retention Basin assistant manager Kris Benda stand in the testing lab at the Chapaton Retention Basin in St. Clair Shores.

Published February 1, 2019

Public Works uses caution when frozen ground, snow melt and rain collide

MACOMB COUNTY — Macomb County Public Works employees at the Chapaton and Martin retention basins prevented more than 30 million gallons of combined sewer overflow from spilling into Lake St. Clair Jan. 24 after rain and snow melt combined to fill the basin.

Published February 1, 2019

Police: Robber fled after back-and-forth with clerk

WARREN — A would-be robber fled without the cash he was demanding after a back-and-forth exchange with a clerk who told him to come behind the counter and get it himself at the Holiday Inn Express near 11 Mile and Hoover roads Jan. 26.

Published February 1, 2019

Books bought thanks to donation to school media center

WARREN — Dennis Bostick, owner/president of Universal Shopping Center in Warren, is always looking for ways to give back to the community. He did just that when he, his son Dennis Bostick Jr. and his daughter Kristin Bostick visited Cromie Elementary School Jan. 25 to donate $3,000 to the media center.

Published February 1, 2019

Freezing weather, snow prompt school closures

CENTER LINE/WARREN/STERLING HEIGHTS — Students and staff from local schools “chilled” out last week when school was closed in most districts Jan. 28-31 due to the freezing cold weather Michigan endured.

Published February 1, 2019

Flexing their robotics muscles

WARREN — Peck Elementary School fifth-grader Amaan Ahmed aspires to become a physicist. He is getting plenty of practice as a member of the school’s VEX robotics team, which meets for 90 minutes twice a week after school. There are 25 fourth- and fifth-graders in the after-school program.

Published February 1, 2019

Fall completion eyed for new south Warren city complex

WARREN — Construction of a new multi-use municipal facility featuring a library, a mini police station, ancillary city offices and a playground on Van Dyke Avenue, just north of Nine Mile Road, is reportedly on schedule and could wrap up by late September.

An investigation remained underway and access to several nearby streets was restricted Jan. 31 after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat at Binson’s Medical Equipment & Supplies in Center Line.

Published January 31, 2019

Bomb threat phoned in at Binson’s in Center Line

CENTER LINE — An investigation remained ongoing Jan. 31 and several buildings were evacuated at a Center Line medical supply business after an anonymous caller reportedly phoned in a bomb threat.

WARREN — A teenager who allegedly carjacked a woman at an apartment complex near Nine Mile and Hoover roads Jan. 30 was taken into custody following a search that ended two miles away in Detroit.

Published January 31, 2019

Warren carjacking suspect, 16, caught in Detroit

WARREN — A teenager who allegedly carjacked a woman at an apartment complex near Nine Mile and Hoover roads Jan. 30 was taken into custody following a search that ended two miles away in Detroit.