UTICA — The city of Utica has purchased a new art piece to decorate the downtown.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Gardeners Club will be hosting a spring gardening presentation at 1 p.m. Feb. 9 for all gardening enthusiasts with presenter Marilyn Trent from the Rochester Pollinators.

UTICA — The Utica City Council has reappointed its mayor pro tem for another year.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Humane Society of Macomb, 11350 22 Mile Road, has acquired a new executive director to lead it.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Township Police Department is warning residents to lock up their valuables and vehicles as the department has had many reports of vehicle thefts and vehicle break-ins recently in Shelby Township and nearby areas.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Sitting inside an empty building with only a Gatorade, a folding chair, a computer and an ETS favorite — a large Bluetooth speaker — Oxford resident Josh Renel has a vision for the future Shelby Township branch of ETS Sports Performance.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — Police have identified a person of interest connected to a hit-and-run crash that killed a man from Shelby Township the morning of Jan. 1.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Township Police Department has received reports of someone in the Rochester and Shelby Township area who has impersonated a police officer and made false traffic stops on vehicles.

STERLING HEIGHTS/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA — At the Dec. 19 Utica Community Schools Board of Education meeting, the UCS Board of Education honored Plumbrook Elementary School student Mila Sikes, who, as the Beaumont Children’s ambassador for the Children’s Miracle Network, has helped raise more than $500,000 for the organization.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center at River Bends Park in Shelby Township will host its annual Family Fun Day to teach about winter survival from 1 to 4 p.m. Jan 22.

MACOMB COUNTY/GROSSE POINTES — Here's the best of what C & G Newspapers reporters got from local police during the past year.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Township Library began offering curbside service this week, as it continues to clean up after pipes froze and burst on Christmas Eve, causing — in the words of the township’s website — a “substantial claim.”

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — Police have identified a person of interest connected to a hit-and-run crash that killed a man from Shelby Township the morning of Jan. 1.

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Kiwanis Club of Utica-Shelby Township is a community service organization in Utica whose mission is to help youth and the community through charitable works.

UTICA — The 2022 Utica High School Warrior yearbook has earned a Spartan Award from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Township Police Department is looking for a group of people who did not pay their food bill Nov. 30 at a local restaurant.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Boutique salon Bell Amore’s owners have faced huge challenges in the past few years, but they continue to have a focus on the community.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — There’s boxing in the traditional sense, and then there’s Rumble Boxing.

MACOMB COUNTY — Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel announced plans for an outdoor education partnership between the county, the Detroit Zoological Society and Huron-Clinton Metroparks at the State of the County address on Dec. 7.

MACOMB COUNTY — A successful program and a true embodiment of the Macomb County community, the St. Clair Shores Green Hornets football program was well represented on Dec. 5 as the All-County high school football team was announced.