METRO DETROIT — Retired Warren Consolidated Schools Superintendent Robert Livernois is a history buff, especially when it comes to Detroit landmarks and legends.

EASTPOINTE — As school districts statewide prepare for the 2025-2026 school year, they’ve been thrown into financial uncertainty because the state Legislature has not passed the state budget, which includes the school aid budget.

WARREN — Regina High School has come full circle. Last month, the Regina High School board of directors — together with the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis — announced the appointments of Anna Bulszewicz as president and Emily Radatz as vice president of advancement.

WARREN — This June and July, a number of Van Dyke Public Schools students who needed to catch up on their credits or needed remedial lessons are attending summer school in the district at various schools.

EASTPOINTE — For several years, Kesh Gallman has been making people laugh as a stand-up comedian in metro Detroit and around the country.

HARRISON TOWNSHIP/ST. CLAIR SHORES — When Michael Schodowski was studying tae kwon do to earn his black belt more than 40 years ago, another student invited him to visit the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit after class one night.

METRO DETROIT — When Bill Griffin, who owns Griffin’s Neighborhood Auto Clinic in Farmington Hills, injured his back in 2009, he was unable to work for a period of time.

METRO DETROIT — Whether he’s on stage performing his comedy/magic “Just Joe Magic Show” or teaching students inside the classroom, Joe Chasney knows how to capture an audience.

METRO DETROIT — While growing up, Vito Chirco and his brother Dominic bonded with their dad, Jerome, through sports, especially softball and baseball.

EASTPOINTE — Two years ago, in August 2023, the voting majority in Eastpointe Community Schools passed a $36.4 million bond proposal for building repairs throughout the district.

WARREN — Residents in the Fitzgerald Public Schools district will have the opportunity to support it during the Aug. 5 primary election.

METRO DETROIT — Setting up camp inside Dawn Bols’ Volkswagen Westfalia camper bus T-2 is like entering a time machine that dates back to 1979.

EASTPOINTE — Jennifer “Jamma” Harris is being remembered as “a great light” and a “kind, generous and patient” person by loved ones who will miss her deeply. 

EASTPOINTE — Family, friends and community members will gather at 5 p.m. today, July 14, to remember Jennifer “Jamma” Harris, a loving mother and McDonald’s manager who was stabbed, allegedly by a co-worker, July 10. 

EASTPOINTE — A former Forest Park Elementary School paraprofessional pleaded guilty in court July 8 to an assault and battery charge for striking a child with a shoe last fall.