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Eric Czarnik

C&G Staff Reporter – Sterling Heights Sentry

Staff Writer Eric Czarnik reports on Sterling Heights and Utica Community Schools, and he writes a weekly auto column. He is a Wayne State University graduate who has been employed at C & G Newspapers since 2007.

Published March 22, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

UHS boosters prepare for a band on the run

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sometimes it takes the right sort of music to put a spring in your step.

Published March 22, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

FCA announces investigation after report of noose

STERLING HEIGHTS — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles officials are reportedly trying to find out who was responsible for leaving a noose behind at the company’s Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in February.

Visitors enjoy the carnival midway at a previous Sterlingfest Art and Music Fair.

Published March 22, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Sugar Ray, Motley Crue’s Neil slated for Sterlingfest

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights will bring big-name rock acts to the state during this summer’s Sterlingfest Art & Music Fair.

Published March 22, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Whitmer takes budget plan to Sterling town hall

STERLING HEIGHTS — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took her budget plan — which includes a proposed, gradually cumulative 45-cents-per-gallon fuel tax hike — to the road, and that included a stop in Sterling Heights March 15.

Published March 20, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Contest seeks official, less cheeky name for ring sculpture

STERLING HEIGHTS — Though it’s arguably a rearguard action, city officials are looking for a name for their new Hall Road Golden Corridor ring icon.

Published March 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Ford actors living a fairy tale with ‘Shrek’

Like ogres and onions, theatrical shows have many layers.

Henry Ford II High School students are preparing to cover all of them in rehearsals before performing “Shrek the Musical” March 21-23.

Published March 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Public cautioned about police imposter phone scam

Police are asking the public to resist phone scammers impersonating an officer to fraudulently obtain sensitive data.

Published March 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Special Needs Center finds new place to play

No matter your situation in life, moving day can be stressful.

Yet for the leadership at the Play-Place Autism and Special Needs Center, the hard work of moving from one building in Sterling Heights to another is mixed with optimism and hope. So says group founder and Executive Director Shell Jones.

“It’s just a matter of organizing and planning,” she said. “We are short on volunteers and manpower, but we’re doing what we have to do. We’ve got things being color-coded, boxed up, and we’re taking a nice, productive, peaceful pace.”

A sign marks a vacant area along 17 Mile Road, near Van Dyke Avenue. Sterling Heights approved a planned unit development proposal to build three hotels on the property at a March 5 City Council meeting.

Published March 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Council approves trio of hotels near Van Dyke corridor

It might break the rules in Monopoly, but the Sterling Heights City Council successfully approved a plan to put three hotels on a stretch of property along 17 Mile Road, near Van Dyke Avenue.

Published March 8, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Robotics center to build upon tech leaders’ hopes

Piece by piece, the plans and components of a future robotics collaboration center are being assembled in Sterling Heights.

Published March 8, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

City recognizes drug crisis, observes Black Balloon Day

City officials committed themselves to the cause of fighting and preventing drug abuse in conjunction with Black Balloon Day, a new day set apart to remember families who have lost loved ones to drugs.

The council passed a resolution officially observing March 6 as Black Balloon Day.

Published March 1, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Local water officials tour Clinton River

Local and county officials recently paid a visit to gain water resource knowledge and to hear how Sterling Heights officials and a federal grant contributed to improving the Clinton River.

Published February 28, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Sterling Heights aims to redevelop Target site after closing announced

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights city officials say they will miss a Target store once it closes in a few months, but they expressed confidence that a new development will eventually take its place.

Members of the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Dance Group share their culture.

Published February 25, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Cultural Exchange set to celebrate final year at senior center

Sterling Heights will present its annual Cultural Exchange March 1 at the Sterling Heights Senior Center. The city’s Ethnic Community Committee is in charge of organizing and presenting the event.

The 19th-century Upton House, pictured here last fall, experienced a flooding incident in February. City officials say the building will be closed until repairs can be made.

Published February 25, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Flooding damages Upton House

Sterling Heights’ 19th-century Upton House, which sits on the City Hall campus, near Dodge Park and Utica roads, was recently closed for repairs due to a flooding issue, city officials said.