STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights officials recently celebrated a new high score for the city on a rubric that measures LGBTQ rights and advocacy.

News & Notes from the 12/20/23 Sterling Sentry

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights police announced that one of their officers fired a gun at a stolen car that police said presented a risk of hitting officers the night of Dec. 14.

STERLING HEIGHTS -- Sterling Heights Stevenson is set to honor one of the school’s all-time greats on Dec. 19 at Stevenson High School.

STERLING HEIGHTS — When Julia Frueh got married in November, she knew she wanted the occasion to be somewhere special. And for her, that place was the church at Grace Centers of Hope in Pontiac.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Upon leaving military life about a decade ago, retired U.S. Army Sgt. Darrell Kingsberry Jr.’s life, in his words, had “been up and down,” sometimes fortunate and other times not-so-fortunate.

STERLING HEIGHTS — This photo was taken in July 1995 of Sterling Heights police officers approaching the scene of a Detroit News strike that reportedly blocked the Sterling Heights Operations Facility at the intersection of Mound Road and Metropolitan Parkway.

MACOMB COUNTY — Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel took to the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts stage on Dec. 6 to deliver his 11th State of the County speech.

News & Notes from the 12/6/23 Sterling Sentry

STERLING HEIGHTS — Winning 20 games, a district title and a league title will put a team on the map, and Utica Ford II girls basketball is eager to get everyone’s best this season.

STERLING HEIGHTS — A plan to put an apartment complex on Brougham Drive was recently postponed by the Sterling Heights Planning Commission after members suggested changes that they believe could make the property more harmonious to residential neighbors and the concept of a mixed-use district.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Bells will be ringing, and so will cash registers, this holiday season. But just how much metro Detroiters’ wallets will be in the Christmas spirit remains to be seen, according to local businesses and economic observers.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights resident Pat Mitchell lives in a neighborhood next to the ITC corridor and its transmission lines, near Schoenherr Road, north of Clinton River Road.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Police at Macomb Community College are conducting an investigation after a man’s body was discovered in the ventilation system at one of the college’s Center Campus buildings.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights city officials are counting the latest statistics from the FBI as evidence of success in keeping crime in check.

STERLING HEIGHTS — The city of Sterling Heights’ new Featured Artist is an Assyrian Iraqi American who aspires to carry on a millennia-long legacy of Middle Eastern art.

STERLING HEIGHTS — A drain near a Sterling Heights shopping plaza that was filled with concrete debris and trash is now cleanly flowing to the Clinton River, according to the Macomb County Public Works Office.

News & Notes from the 11/22/23 Sterling Sentry

WARREN/STERLING HEIGHTS — Earlier this month, the Warren Consolidated Schools Board of Education approved a settlement offer for government entity claims against Altria Group, the maker of JUUL e-cigarettes.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights is inviting local veterans and their supporters to a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Sterling Heights Community Center, 40250 Dodge Park Road.