UTICA —The Utica Public Library is hosting its summer reading program, and readers have the chance to earn prizes for reading between June 12 and July 22.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A new law involving cellphones and driving might have people changing their minds about using their phones by hand while driving later this week.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A local businesswoman and a student were among those honored June 6 at the Winning Futures annual awards celebration in Madison Heights.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Four County Community Foundation is all ears when it comes to hearing about local inventors and their innovative solutions to problems.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Macomb Community College South Campus in Warren last month hosted approximately 2,500 students, educators and parents from Macomb County and beyond at the 38th annual Elementary Science Olympiad Tournament.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office said that it arrested a 66-year-old man from Shelby Township for allegedly possessing child sexually abusive material June 2.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A local boy has made a special connection with an author who will be coming to the Shelby Township Library to speak about his lifelong struggle with a speech condition called apraxia.

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS — Addison Oleksinski has been making moves with her art creations ever since she was a little kid. Now, she is one of the youngest students to earn national scholastic honors and a trip to Carnegie Hall in New York City.

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS — At the Michigan Association of Family and Consumer Sciences spring conference, Stevenson High School family and consumer sciences teacher Kristina Robinson was named the 2023 Teacher of the Year.  

UTICA — Utica is welcoming its new police chief, who already has plans in line for the city in the near future.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation recently announced the awarding of $800,000 in grants to 36 organizations through the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Legacy Funds.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — The Shelby Farmers Market has returned for its 15th year.

UTICA — Utica’s Weekend Unwind Friday night concert series will be returning to downtown Utica starting June 2.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A 44-year-old Mussey Township man was arraigned in the 41A District Court May 11 in connection with a fatal crash that occurred May 9.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Have you ever wondered what a prom looks like for a 100% virtual school? Michigan Great Lakes Virtual Academy, a 100% virtual school, recently hosted one of the milestone moments of their students’ high school years — prom.