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Brian Louwers

C&G Staff Reporter – Warren Weekly

Staff Writer Brian Louwers covers the cities of Warren and Center Line. He has worked for C & G Newspapers since 1998 and is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In his free time, he participates in the Michigan State University Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Program and conducts interviews with military veterans for the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress.

Published November 15, 2019

Warren Weekly

New era begins for Warren City Council

WARREN — Pat Green is the new Warren City Council president and mayor pro tem. Garry Watts is the council’s vice president. Mindy Moore is the secretary and Jonathan Lafferty is the assistant secretary.

Published November 13, 2019

Warren Weekly

Police: Center Line shooting suspect apparently killed himself

CENTER LINE — The suspect in a Nov. 12 shooting outside the Te Roma bar on Van Dyke Avenue later used a gun to take his own life, the Center Line Public Safety Department confirmed.

Published November 8, 2019

Warren Weekly

Police seek assault charges for students in alleged hazing

WARREN — Warren police have asked Macomb County prosecutors to authorize assault charges for three football players at De La Salle Collegiate High School tied to hazing allegations at the school that surfaced late last month.

Published November 8, 2019

Warren Weekly

Center Line voters elect Delikta, Reid to City Council

CENTER LINE — Voters in Center Line have picked Aaron Delikta and James Reid to represent them on the City Council for the next four years.

Published November 8, 2019

Warren Weekly

Wave of absentee votes carries Fouts to fourth term

WARREN — Voters waited past midnight for absentee ballots to be tallied in Warren. In the end, those votes told the story, pushing Mayor Jim Fouts to a historic fourth term.

Published November 8, 2019

Warren Weekly

Warren voters elect new City Council, keep treasurer and clerk

WARREN — With Warren’s absentee voter totals still unavailable and the results uncertain after midnight on Election Day, no one really knew what the new-look City Council would look like.

Published November 6, 2019

Warren Weekly

Wave of absentee votes carries Fouts to fourth term

WARREN — Election Day turned into the day after as voters waited past midnight for absentee ballots to be tallied. In the end, those votes told the story, pushing Warren Mayor Jim Fouts to a potentially historic fourth term.

Published November 5, 2019

Warren Weekly

Center Line voters elect Delikta, Reid to City Council

CENTER LINE — Voters in Center Line have picked Aaron Delikta and James Reid to represent them on the City Council for the next four years.

Published November 4, 2019

Warren Weekly

Center Line woman killed in crash on Van Dyke

WARREN — A 20-year-old Center Line woman was killed when the car she was driving was struck by a pickup truck on Van Dyke Avenue at Miller Drive at about 6:45 a.m. Nov. 4.

Published November 4, 2019

Warren Weekly

Warren Police Department investigating hazing allegations at De La Salle

WARREN — Hazing allegations that prompted officials at De La Salle Collegiate High School to end the football season on the eve of the state playoffs have resulted in an investigation by the Warren Police Department.

Published November 1, 2019

Warren Weekly

Outreach prepares for inaugural ‘Give Hope Day’ Nov. 15

WARREN — For a dozen years, the annual Taste of Hope auction and tastefest served as the main fundraising force behind the popular Summerfest outreach founded in 2004 as a community-serving ministry of Warren’s Liberty Foursquare Church.

Published November 1, 2019

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Warthogs donate tactical litters to K-9 teams in Macomb County

MACOMB COUNTY — Having the right equipment on hand to move an injured K-9 or safely lift the dog over a wall or fence matters when seconds count for first responders. Members of the Southern Macomb Warthogs Chapter 44 recently supplemented the gear issued by police departments across the county by adding tactical medical litters for 24 K-9 units.

Published October 28, 2019

Warren Weekly

Warren political season nears its tumultuous end

WARREN — Competing allegations of mail fraud and libel. Name calling at a public meeting. Political sign gamesmanship. Calls for state oversight. Yet another mysteriously sourced audio recording that appears to feature the mayor’s voice saying bad things.

Published October 25, 2019

Warren Weekly

Write-in candidates look to defy odds in Warren

WARREN — You’ll find Jason McClanahan’s name around town on “adopt-a-highway” signs placed along the various stretches of road he’s committed to beautifying. Where you won’t find it is on the ballot as a candidate for the Warren City Council in District 4.

Published October 25, 2019

Warren Weekly

Kidney passes from father to son

WARREN — Those who grew up with and worked with Bobby Sulek for decades thought they knew what kind of a guy he was. Those feelings were affirmed and then some when he unselfishly stepped up to literally offer a piece of himself to save his ailing son.