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 June 28, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — A Sterling Heights home was visited by tragedy June 26 when a truck crashed into it, leading to the death of the driver.
Read MorePublished June 25, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — A man who allegedly took his family with him as he led officers on a long and winding chase through Macomb County ended up arrested anyway, according to police.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — The pages are turning once more at the Sterling Heights Public Library as it continues some services and resumes others in different ways in light of the governor allowing some reopenings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — It required some targeted spending cuts and the use of rainy day funds, but Sterling Heights now has a new budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — Surrounded by supporters of President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence visited Sterling Heights June 18 to give remarks about the economy, COVID-19, law enforcement and more.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — At the June 16 Sterling Heights City Council meeting, Sterling Heights Police Chief Dale Dwojakowski said city officials had more to say about law enforcement policies and governmental reforms.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — Weeks after a series of lethal police interactions with black people intensified scrutiny on law enforcement, a black plaintiff filed a lawsuit against Sterling Heights and a police officer, alleging mistreatment and wrongful arrest last year.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights voters who choose to use a mail-in ballot this November will save 71 cents in postage after a city budget amendment vote to make it happen.
Read MorePublished June 19, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — Like many valedictorians, Julie ElFishawy had the honor of giving a commencement speech to her fellow graduates from the Utica Academy for International Studies, who graduated June 6.
Read MorePublished June 15, 2020
Published June 5, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — A trip to City Hall or other municipal facilities in Sterling Heights may look different as things start to reopen this month. At a June 2 Sterling Heights City Council meeting, the city reacted to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to end her Safer at Home order and bring all of Michigan to Phase 4 of her six-phase reopening plan.
Read MorePublished June 5, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — As COVID-19 precautions carry on, a day on the job at the Sterling Heights Police Department starts a bit more surreally for officers.
Read MorePublished June 5, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — High school graduations are over, and the last official day of the school year is approaching, June 11. But officials at Utica Community Schools and throughout the state have their own summer studies cut out for them: namely, how to reopen in the fall.
Read MorePublished June 5, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights city and police leaders expounded on what the death of a Minnesota man while under arrest by Minneapolis police — and the uproar that followed it — means to governance, law enforcement and race relations going forward.
Read MorePublished June 5, 2020
STERLING HEIGHTS — Like many businesses, Nothing Bundt Cakes in Sterling Heights couldn’t simply react to the COVID-19 pandemic by doing nothing.
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