GROSSE POINTE WOODS — Some budding artists in Grosse Pointe Woods were honored this month for their creative skills and tree advocacy efforts.

MADISON HEIGHTS — After a two-year absence, the Festival in the Park is set to return the weekend before Independence Day.

GROSSE POINTE WOODS — The boards are usually silent over the summer, as community theaters close the curtain on their season in the spring and reopen in the fall.

ROYAL OAK — The Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce will fire up its clay, glass and metal show, called “Art of Fire,” from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 11, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 12.

DETROIT — A significant local gay artist is being introduced to a new generation of artists and art aficionados as part of a sweeping series of art exhibitions throughout the metro area.

ROYAL OAK — On Monday, May 30, the city of Royal Oak hosted its first Memorial Day ceremony in Centennial Commons, the city’s new downtown park, with a Field of Honor — 7-foot-tall flags for all 188 Royal Oak residents listed on the veterans memorial — and a special guest speaker.

ROYAL OAK — On May 9, the Royal Oak City Commission narrowly extinguished a resolution to add the sale and consumption of recreational marijuana at Arts, Beats & Eats, the city’s banner Labor Day festival, Sept. 2-5.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Nostalgia filled Assembly Hall at Macomb Community College’s University Center May 17 when music historian Stu Johnson brought his “Music of the Postwar Years: 1946-1955” to class.

MACOMB COUNTY — Advancing Macomb will host its sixth annual Summer Soirée at 5 p.m. June 14.

NOVI — Several years ago, Jeremia Pilarski saw someone playing with a remote controlled car in a parking lot.