Dear Crabby, Is It Too Early for Christmas?
Dear Crabby Gives Advice Dear Crabby, I love fall. Living in Michigan, I think it’s the best season to experience and our last hurrah before the dreaded ‘s’ stuff starts falling. But it seems like as soon as Labor Day was over and the school routine started up again, I was hearing whispers of Christmas. Now I’m no Scrooge, […]
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Get Ready to Rewire not Retire with Chuck Gaidica
Chuck Gaidica Chuck Gaidica, WDIV “Live in the D” cohost, will share the many opportunities available to retirees as they prepare for this new chapter in their life at the launching of the OPC Rewired not Retired program on October 6 at 7:00 pm. Gaidica has reinvented his life and wants to share with fellow Baby Boomers […]
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Avondale Teacher Attends Boot Camp to Learn Ways to Elevate Student Engagement
Avondale teacher Laura Amatulli with colleagues from around the world at Boot Camp Avondale Middle School science teacher Laura Amatulli was chosen as one of 50 middle school teachers from around the world to participate in a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workshop sponsored by Honeywell Home Solutions. The workshop, Honeywell Green Boot Camp, provides educators with information, experience and resources to bring lessons on energy efficiency, […]
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Oakland County Racks Up Financial Reporting Awards
Oakland County Logo Oakland County has won the Award of Excellence for its Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for 19 years running. The PAFR summarizes for taxpayers how the county spends their money. It is one of the ways County Executive L. Brooks Patterson’s administration […]
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Autumn Book and Media Sale
Rochester Hills Public Library Can you peruse 35,000 books? The Friends of the Rochester Hills Public Library will give you a chance to at least try looking through some of those tomes during the Friends Fall Used Book and Media Sale set for October 19-October 23. The place to be is the expanded facility on the Library’s second floor […]
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Rochester Fire Department Open House this Sunday
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Medical Main Street in United Kingdom and Ireland Attract Companies to Oakland County
Oakland County Logo Medical Main Street in United Kingdom and Ireland on Trade Mission to Attract Medical Device/Life Science Companies to Oakland County A business development team from Oakland County’s Medical Main Street is spending the week in the United Kingdom and Ireland selling medical device and life science companies on the benefits of expanding their operations into […]
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Deerfield Elementary Named National Blue Ribbon School
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr today announced that Avondale School District’s Deerfield Elementary has been named a National Blue Ribbon School for 2016. Only 329 schools across the country and 13 schools from the State of Michigan were chosen for the distinction that recognizes schools achieving very high learning standards or for […]
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Rochester Hills Hosts Design Open House
City of Rochester HillsResidents Invited to Shape the Future of the Auburn Road Corridor On Monday, October 10, the City of Rochester Hills will host a Design Open House for the Auburn Road Corridor. This open house builds upon the ideas that residents and businesses shared at a initial design open house in May. The Auburn Road Corridor […]
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