The installation of the 2021 and 2022 officers of the Preceptor Delta Beta Sorority was held at the home of Barbara Schemanske on May 5. The theme for this year’s installation was an evening of…
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The Macomb County Office of Senior Services has expanded free Shipt membership to include homebound individuals 18 years old and older who have a disability and all senior citizen older than 60 years old. “The…
Washington Township resident Helen Kensicki celebrated her 103rd birthday last week. She was born May 5, 1918 in Detroit, Michigan. She was presented with an official proclamation from Washington Township Supervisor Sam Previt recognizing the…
The local winners of the Young American Patriotic Art Contest sponsored by the Romeo Striber-McVicar Post #2052 have been announced. Pictured left to right are first place—Allison Halasi, 12th grade, second place—Hannah Turner, 12th grade…
A feral fruit tree blooms along Buell Road in Oakland Township last week. (Photo by Larry Sobczak) (more…)
Nearly 40 years after Elizabeth Buhl Shelden sold her Oakland Township estate to the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority to expand Stony Creek Metropark westward, flowers from her gardens still bloom. Purple starflowers, also known as ipheion,…
Oak trees have a reputation for being mighty, but these majestic trees need our help in spring and early summer to prevent the spread of a microscopic killer. From April 15 to July 15, oak…
Unusually warm temperatures at the beginning of the month have coaxed trees in several area orchards to bloom weeks ahead of schedule. These blooms were found last week along the Macomb Orchard Trail at Verellens…
BY DANIELLE BLESSING A pandemic year is creating an opportunity for an aspiring stylist to show her fashion designs to an even broader audience across the Internet. Washington Township resident Rachel Zauel, a junior at…
Another sure sign of spring is the return of this pair of sandhill cranes to Stony Creek Metropark. The birds migrate to the southern United States during the winter. Sandhill cranes are the largest bird…