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Village vacancies, growth potential
subject of Grosse Pointe City meeting

The Village has lost some retail anchors, but that doesn’t mean the three-block strip on Kercheval isn’t holding its own.

Borders closed last year when the Ann Arbor-based company went bankrupt and liquidated its stores. The local Gap was one of many stores closed by the clothing retailer nationwide. Earlier, the Jacobson’s closed when that department store chain ceased to exist. read more...

On the mend from an attack,
Gannon the pup needs a home

This week's adoptable pet is baby Gannon, a Lab-mix pup of 4 1/2 months with a sad history

When he was brought in for rescue, his face was torn up from a dog or other animal attack. He needed eye surgery and time to heal. He's now doing great with love and attention and is ready to be adopted. He's described as smart and responsive to training. Learn more here. 

Meatless Lenten Fridays can mean rich vegetarian dishes

I recently made this dish for a memorial luncheon for friends of ours. Its really good and a great way to serve something hearty and vegetarian for the Lenten season for those of you who practice fasting on Fridays. Growing up in our east side Catholic home we did not eat meat on Fridays year-round. My mom was always looking for new recipes for these days. She would have liked this one…and so do we.

Vegetarian lasagna read more...

Grosse Pointe Public Library millage
passes; Romney wins Pointes, state

The Grosse Pointe Library's special millage increase passed easily in Tuesday's election, capturing just over 75 percent of the 14,531 ballots cast in the library's service area of the five Pointes and portions of Harper Woods. (The final vote was 10,974 to 3,557.*) This allows an increase in funding for the libraries, which are laboring under the debt burden for two branches built before the financial collapse. read more...

Grosse Pointe Park hears crime report,
approves grants for public safety

With three members absent for various personal reasons, the Grosse Pointe Park City Council accepted two state grants for potentially merging parts of the five public safety departments.  

One grant, for $20,000, will be used to study the combining of the city of Grosse Pointe Park and the city of Grosse Pointe’s public safety departments. The other, for $300,000, can be used for construction of a five-city dispatch center, should it be agreed upon by all.

Council also appointed Margot Parker to fill an unexpected opening on the city's Board of Review. read more...

Grosse Pointe Woods council signs on
for $300,000 state public-safety grant

Grosse Point Woods City Council became the latest to approve a substantial grant to potentially build a joint dispatch and lockup center for the five Pointes, at their meeting Monday night (Feb. 27).

The $300,000 Economic Vitality Incentive Program grant was awarded by the state and pursued by Grosse Pointe City manager Peter Dame. After being notified of its availability January 20, the five councils were given 60 days to support the measure or forfeit it. read more...

Head Start gets a second chance as
Grosse Pointe school board reconsiders

The changes on the Grosse Pointe school board brought by last November's election became clearer Monday night (Feb. 27), as the group took another run at initiating a Head Start program at Poupard Elementary School. read more...

Library millage opponents not vocal,
but still won't vote for tax bump

Two days before polls open for the February election, it’s easy to find people preparing to vote for the .7-mill tax increase for the Grosse Pointe Public Library – yard signs dot lawns in many blocks, and a vigorous social-media campaign exhorts voters not to forget to cast their ballots on Tuesday (Feb. 28).

It’s harder to find those who won’t be voting for it. But they’re out there.

Jay Hackleman of Grosse Pointe Park said there has been significant pushback in his household. read more...

Six things you can do to lower
your risk of workout-related injuries

You’ve put together the perfect formula. You’re exercising regularly — either with or without a trainer — you’re eating properly and drinking plenty of water. You’re guaranteed to be successful, right? Not quite yet. 

There is one more component in your fitness journey — timing and rest. Think of it like  baking a cake. You can mix all the right ingredients, but unless you put it in the oven for the proper amount of time, it won’t come out right.

Rest — and by this we mean muscular repair, not just sleep — is critical to the equation. Repair occurs when muscles are inactive, weather you are sitting at your desk or sleeping. 

Whenever you overload a muscle, as you do when you are working out, it causes micro tears in the fibers that need to heal. If you don’t allow those tears to heal, they can grow into macro tears — becoming a sprain or strain depending on whether it’s a ligament, tendon or muscle. Regardless, the effect is the same. You feel tightness and pain, have decreased range of motion and may experience swelling. read more...

Grosse Pointe Shores revenues to fall,
water bills to rise, city council told

Property values in Grosse Pointe Shores are expected to drop by 12 percent in 2012, Bruce Bisballe told his fellow city council members at Tuesday's (Feb. 21) meeting.

The finance committee chairman said Wayne County has verified this decrease. The drop, and its accompanying dip in tax revenues, will leave a gap of approximately $500,000 in the budget for fiscal 2012.

But, Bisballe said, this is seen as the bottom of the revenue drop. read more...

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