SHELBY TOWNSHIP — In 2001, Barbara Gasparski, of Shelby Township, founded the Shelby Township Fine Art Society, and today it is a club that is still very much active in the community with Gasparski as a member.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Roy Townsend and his wife, Carol, experienced a tragedy almost eight years ago that most families couldn’t imagine.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS — Utica Community Schools will be continuing its Meet Up and Eat Up food program this summer.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Shelby Township’s new K-9 officer Stanley is already making an impact on the local community, and that was on display recently when he visited Peace Lutheran Church and School in Shelby Township.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Macomb Symphony Orchestra will be performing a concert at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, at Stony Creek Metropark, 4300 Main Park Drive in Shelby Township.

ROCHESTER/SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A teenager who admitted to firing a gunshot in the parking lot of a beach at Stony Creek Metropark June 15 has been released back to their parents.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently announced two charges against a Detroit man who allegedly threatened a Shelby Township judge.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS/UTICA — A sophomore Manufacturing, Automation and Design Engineering student at Stevenson High School finished in fourth place during this past weekend’s opening night of racing for the Must See Racing Series — Midwest Lights pavement winged sprint car race at Lorain Raceway Park in Elyria, Ohio.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS/UTICA — Stevenson High School Manufacturing, Automation and Design Engineering senior Kayli Nguyen won first place in the gas tungsten arc welding division at the 2022 Ferris State Secondary Welding Competition May 6, making her the first female competitor to win that division in the competition’s history.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS/UTICA — A Utica Community Schools dad recently returned an overdue library book that he borrowed more than 40 years ago when he attended the same elementary school that his daughters do now, Dresden Elementary School.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — St. Vincent de Paul Detroit opened a brand-new thrift store in Utica June 2 at Shelby Corners, 13455 Hall Road in Utica.