WEST BLOOMFIELD — In the Beacon’s coverage area, residents will vote on a bond proposal and decide races for supervisor, trustee and park commissioner, as well as county, state and national offices Aug.6.

METRO DETROIT — It’s a summertime tradition: sitting around a backyard bonfire while toasting marshmallows with your family or having a few cocktails with neighbors.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — An experienced police officer has joined the Grosse Pointe Farms Public Safety Department.

GROSSE POINTES/HARPER WOODS — As voters cast their ballots in the Aug. 6 primary, Grosse Pointe Public School System officials hope they’ll vote in favor of the district’s operating millage.

GROSSE POINTE WOODS — A Grosse Pointe Woods native who spent much of his youth at the Lake Front Park pool has returned home to helm the city’s Parks and Recreation Department.

GROSSE POINTE PARK — For Grosse Pointe Park native Sorin Koszyk, an Olympic qualification was more of a ‘when’ rather than an ‘if.’

GROSSE POINTE CITY — The Grosse Pointes keep close tabs on what their immediate neighboring municipalities are doing and often adopt similar practices or purchases if a new addition is a hit, but Grosse Pointe City is going farther afield this summer to see how another community does business.

ROCHESTER — You don’t have to travel to Detroit to enjoy the masterpieces of the Detroit Institute of Arts this summer.

ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Hills Stoney Creek softball’s battery and leader of the infield have put themselves on the map statewide.

ROCHESTER/ROCHESTER HILLS — The Rochester schools are always known to be at each other’s throats in athletics, but in a friendly, competitive way.

ROCHESTER HILLS — Nearly three weeks after a gunman opened fire, injuring nine people, the Brooklands Splash Pad has reopened.

ROCHESTER HILLS — The public is invited to share thoughts on five potential design alternatives for Adams Road, between Hamlin Road and Walton Boulevard.

ROCHESTER/ROCHESTER HILLS/OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — In the Post’s coverage area, voters will decide various state, county and local primary races Aug. 6, including township offices.

GROSSE POINTES — In the Grosse Pointe Times’ coverage area, voters will decide during the Aug. 6 primary who will represent their party in the November general election in federal, state and county races.

NOVI — Connoisseurs of all things different, strange, odd, gross and just plain weird have been coming out in droves to the annual Oddities and Curiosities Expo over the last few years, so much so that the show’s owners found it necessary to make it a two-day exposition in a larger space at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi.

ROYAL OAK — Take a trip to the swamp July 19-28 at “Shrek the Musical Jr.” at the Baldwin Theatre in downtown Royal Oak.

ROYAL OAK — Pride Royal Oak is coming in hot with headliners from the internationally acclaimed show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” for the third annual Pride event July 26-27.

FRASER — Fraser has a new clerk, but its last one isn’t going anywhere.

ROSEVILLE — “I need a lawyer." This was the sentence that caused the final part of an hourslong statement by Kimora Hodges to be thrown out of court, overturning the initial ruling by Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Diane Druzinski.

EASTPOINTE — One hundred years ago, in 1924, a group of local men with a desire to help others got together to form Odd Fellows Eastwood Lodge No. 496.