The Oakland Township Board of Trustees recognized Fire Department District Chief Luis Gomez for his 25 years of service at their Feb. 28 meeting. Gomez started out as a paid on-call firefighter and worked his…
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BY AMBER DOWNS An Armada High School senior’s academic discipline and charitable nature has won her the prestigious Centralis Gold Award, a full-tuition scholarship to Central Michigan University. Samantha Berlinger is a 4.0 grade point…
(MIRS News) — The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Michigan Agricultural Preservation Fund Board awarded $1.1 million in grants to four county farmland preservation programs. There are 492 acres between Ottawa, Kent,…
(MIRS News) — Michigan’s unemployment rate stayed at 4.3 percent in January, according to Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget data. The national unemployment rate declined by one-tenth of a percent to land at…
The Rochester High School school resource officer received an “Ok2Say” tip from school officials indicating that a 15-year-old student had made a verbal threat to bring a gun to the school while talking among friends…
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BY STACY SOBOTKA The Village of Romeo still hasn’t been able to appoint a new trustee. For the second time, the Romeo Village Board of Trustees were unable to agree on appointing a trustee at…
BY STACY SOBOTKA The board of trustees rejected a rezoning request to make the former Romeo First Congregational Church part of the Romeo Central Business District at their meeting Feb. 27. The four lots on…
BY LARRY SOBCZAK EDITOR An automation company is building a $7.2 million facility in Bruce Township and it’s bringing more than 60 jobs with it. “SMTAutomation is investing more than $7 million in Macomb County,…
BY STACY SOBOTKA Jeanne Langlois is back on the Oakland Township Board of Trustees. She was appointed by the Board of Trustees at their meeting Feb. 28 to fill a vacancy. After Dominic Abbate resigned…