UTICA — Face Addiction Now, a Macomb County-based nonprofit formerly known as Families Against Narcotics, will hold its 16th annual Run Drugs Out of Town 5K Run/Walk fundraiser at 10 a.m. June 30 at Jimmy John’s Field in Utica.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Bees are an important part of nature and keeping flowers happy, and there is a lot to learn about making the bees happy too.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA — Scott Boice, the Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 156 in Shelby Township, said that on Feb. 15, Blake Jahn, a senior at Utica High School, became the 156th Eagle Scout in the troop’s 56-year history dating to 1968.

MACOMB COUNTY — Two Macomb County leaders have been recognized by the federal government for their community policing efforts.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Utica Eisenhower senior Sammy Agnello is one of those wrestlers you only get in your school once a decade, or 12 years to be exact for Eisenhower’s case.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — It’s a special moment for two sisters to achieve something special together, especially when they’re twins making school history on one of the biggest stages in girls wrestling.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS — Henry Ford II High School theater students won a great deal of recognition for their acting, technical and personal skills at the Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association One-Act Play State Finals Feb. 18 at Wayne State University.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — If you would have polled various bowling coaches throughout Macomb, Wayne and Oakland Counties prior to this season and asked them, “Who’s the top bowler in the class of 2025,” it wouldn’t have been a surprise if Utica Eisenhower junior Dylan Harnden was mentioned multiple times.

MACOMB COUNTY — Closing parts of M-53 throughout this year’s construction season might mean detours or fewer open lanes, but it will extend the highway’s lifespan for years to come, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation.

MACOMB COUNTY — It was an election two years in the making. After Michigan voters passed Proposition 2 in 2022 with a 60% majority, the first statewide election with nine days of early voting arrived in February.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS — Utica Community Schools varsity basketball players from Henry Ford II High School in Sterling Heights volunteered at a Pontiac-based nonprofit organization, Grace Centers of Hope, to help prepare and serve dinner to participants in the one-year Men’s Life Skills program Feb. 8.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA — The Utica Shelby Kiwanis Club’s pitch competition once again is offering an opportunity for young entrepreneurs and celebrating their achievements.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Gardner White, Henry Ford Health and the American Heart Association teamed up Feb. 22 to mark American Heart Month by offering hands-only CPR and automated external defibrillator training sessions to the public for free at the Gardner White store on Hall Road in Shelby Township.

MACOMB COUNTY — Despite some odd winter weather, cold-weather traffic safety concerns have not melted away.

MACOMB COUNTY — Although inflation has decreased in recent months, “I don’t know if we’re out of the woods,” said Thomas Alongi, a partner with the UHY accounting firm, in Sterling Heights.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Samaritan House will be hosting a pasta dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. March 6 with a goal of raising $20,000 to fill its food party to help those in need.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The city of Utica and the Macomb County Department of Planning and Economic Development held a visioning meeting Feb. 7 at the Utica Public Library to look at potential ways to improve the city and increase the population density, which is at the top of city leaders’ priority list.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Returning for her fifth soccer season at Ave Maria University in Florida, Shelby Township native and Warren Regina graduate Haley Iacona gave the team everything she had both on and off the field.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — They’re the loudest and most energetic team in the bowling alley, and they have every right to be with the way they’ve been playing.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA — Two local residents will be showing their vehicles at the annual Detroit Autorama next month with some very interesting designs and builds.