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Fraser Public Schools Director of Operations and Maintenance Jim Birko said. The expansion will provide more room for the teams to perform their exercises, routines and practices. Previously, the teams had to utilize other areas of the school that had more room and higher ceilings to practice. They will no longer have to move around mats or practice during late hours to accommodate activities for the rest of the school. Birko said due to overlapping practices, teams would be spread throughout the school See GROUNDBREAKING on page 11A

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Volunteers needed for homeless point-in-time count

MACOMB COUNTY — Macomb Community Action is currently seeking volunteers for its point-in-time count, an annual census of those who are experiencing homelessness in Macomb County. Volunteers can elect to participate in the 2026 count in either of two shift options — the late-night shift beginning on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 28 from 9 p.m. to midnight, and the early-morning shift on Jan. 29 from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. “We’re encouraging residents across Macomb County to come together for this important event,” Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel said in a statement. “The Point-in-Time Count provides essential data that helps guide our efforts to address homelessness, but it also reminds us of the real people behind those numbers. By volunteering, you can make a meaningful difference in the lives of our neighbors who need our support.” Volunteers gather data about those encountered, including gender, race and ethnicity for all persons. Additional data will be gathered if the person interviewed voluntarily provides the information. This could consist of veteran status, age, whether the person is “chronically homeless” or if the person is experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence, disability status, HIV/AIDS or those who have a substance use disorder. Volunteers are provided with information about “hot spots” — where homeless people are known to be — in order to complete the count. “Getting a better understanding of homelessness on a local level helps us be more effective in our efforts to address this important issue,” Macomb Community Action Director Edward Scott said. “We hope Macomb County residents will once again turn out to be an important part of the solution.” For more information, interested individuals can send an email to Kristin. DeFranco@macombgov.org, or you can call her at (586) 817-2049. To register to volunteer for the count, go to https://bit.ly/47TFJVX.

DETROIT — Detroit Institute of Arts’ 17th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition opened Dec. 12 and will run until Jan. 11, 2026. Members of nine tri-county community groups are participating in this year’s exhibition and will display over 100 artworks. Over the past year, DIA studio instructors worked with the Tri-County Community Group Program at the DIA artmaking studio as well as locations throughout the tri-county area. Projects included assemblage, individual paintings and group murals, photo collage, self-portraits, printmaking, clay masks and tiles, multi-media baskets, wood sculpture, and more. The projects will be on view in the Learning Center at the DIA, adjacent to the DIA’s art-making studio, where most of the work was made. This year’s participating groups are: Macomb County Community Mental Health, pictured; ACCESS Hope House; CARE of Southeastern Michigan; Detroit Recovery Project; Hannan Center; the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center; Mariners Inn; Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency’s Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program; and Soul Center (a division of Friendship Circle). The DIA is located at 5200 Woodward Ave. The museum hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. General admission is always free for residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. For more information, go to dia.org.

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MACOMB COUNTY — Andrew Whited wants to let other people that no matter how tough their situation might be, “Don’t dwell on the past. The future has so much in store for you.” The 21-year-old Clinton Township resident is an example of someone who is beating the odds. Whited was among three students scheduled as guest speakers at the Dec. 13 Macomb Community College commencement ceremonies at the Macomb Center for Performing Arts on Macomb’s Center Campus in Clinton Township. Two ceremonies were scheduled, at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Whited graduated with an associate of general studies degree and plans to work in criminal justice. He is currently a police cadet with the Chesterfield Township Police Department. “Graduation is a big deal for me. I became the first person in my family to graduate high school. I became the first person in my family to graduate college,” Whited said. “Always having my best interest in mind, that kept me going. I knew I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to do good in school.” Whited, who grew up in Monroe, has lived with the loss of his parents since he was a child. “My dad died of a drug overdose when I was 5, right

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Andrew Whited, of Clinton Township, addressed his fellow graduates during the Dec. 13 Macomb Community College commencement ceremony at the Macomb Center for Performing Arts on the Center Campus in Clinton Township. of over 200 certificates. Jason Boyd and Annette Jackson were the other two scheduled as guest speakers at the commencement ceremonies. According to college officials, Boyd, 47, is a U.S. Army Ranger veteran and a former owner and operator of a roofing and construction company for more than 20 years. The St. Clair Shores resident wanted to make a change in his life and See GRADUATES on page 14A

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ustomer service and treatment of employees are the keys to success, according to the owners of two local businesses that have flourished for decades. “I think we have built a company based on a certain ethical standard and we’ve treated our customers the right way, and we’ve acted with integrity and trust, and we’ve treated our team members the right way who in turn have really put in that additional effort and loyalty to help us grow,” said Mark Tapper, CEO of Tapper’s Jewelry. Tapper said his father, Howard Tapper, founded the company in 1977 because he believed many other jewelry businesses at the time were not focused on customer service. “He believed many jewelry stores were not operated in a customer-centric way. So, there were silly policies that were considered the norm in 1977 that today we would think were kind of crazy, but he didn’t like how those businesses operated,” Tapper said.

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velopment on Community Development Block Grant obligations for the senior center building; normalizing senior center staffing to reflect operating hours; incentivize online registration for activities; and considering whether the senior center gift store and the hairstylist are necessary. Questions from the board came down to how the combined department would handle the needs of senior and family/children-focused recreation (which would be handled by separate assistant directors and teams of coordinators) and wanting more insight from departmental employees about possible ways the merger could affect operations. Trustees voted to postpone further discussion of the merger plan to the Dec. 22 township board meeting.

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“This is an agreement we have with all of the cable providers in our community,” Clinton Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem said. “This is what allows us to actually build the infrastructure and hire the staff that allows us to operate a public access cable channel. As the market and streaming services change and people are cutting cable … streaming services are not paying a franchise fee, but the cable providers still have to.” The agreement with DIRECTV continues the video service provider fee of 5% and the public, education and government channels fee of 1.5% of gross revenues or whichever rate is charged to Comcast for the PEG fee. Trustees later approved a right-of-way access permit to Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC. The request, made under the Metropolitan Extension Telecommunications Rights-of-Way Oversight Act process for telecommunications services providers seeking to operate in the township, was previously denied at the Nov. 3 board meeting. Call Staff Writer Dean Vaglia at (586) 498-1043.

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or another cryptocurrency and sending it away to who knows where but a deceiver’s virtual wallet. “We’re hearing about them all the time through our office,” said Sheila Cote, director of the Macomb County Office of Senior Services. “In fact, recently we heard of a family (where) the husband ended up getting involved in a crypto scheme and lost their entire life savings. They’re of retirement age and now they’re looking at trying to get back to work. Unfortunately, it’s very common.” According to Cote, these scams targeted at seniors prey on the vulnerabilities that come with being an older adult in society. “They’re often isolated and they may be lonely, and the criminals that are targeting older adults are very skilled at convincing them that they’re their friends, that they want to help them, that they have a way of making them rich fast, that they should invest their savings in these situations,” Cote said. “There’s psychology behind it in which these criminals use to engage older adults … they are not necessarily skilled in terms of technology, so that puts them at risk as well. There’s many variables that put older adults at risk, but isolation and loneliness tends to be high on the list.” Scammers can take on almost any disguise online, pretending to be anything from a delivery company with a delayed package notification to a potential romantic interest asking for gifts and donations. When successful, the result of these scams can be devastating. “We’ve had couples that have lost their house,” Cote said. “They need housing now.

They have to look at low-income or subsidized housing because they have lost so much. For an older person, you can imagine the stress on their health as well as their finances. It really takes a toll on their quality of life.” In light of the increasing frequency of scams using cryptocurrency, communities across the region are looking for ways to stop them or at least make sure seniors are aware that cyber fraudsters may be afoot. At its Dec. 2 meeting, the Sterling Heights City Council voted unanimously to move forward with an ordinance aimed at protecting consumers against cryptocurrency scams. The ordinance introduces new licensing and operational regulations for virtual currency machines, including the requirement to obtain a specialty license endorsement through the city clerk’s office, which must be done by March 31, 2026. Machines must also require a photo ID for transactions, display fraud warnings and disclosures, produce receipts and maintain a customer service hotline. Additionally, first-time users will face transaction limits of $1,000 in a 24-hour period to reduce risks. The city must also be allowed to make yearly inspections of the machines, and a license must be displayed on the machine. Sterling Heights Police Capt. Colleen Hopper, who introduced the ordinance, said the approach is focused on protecting victims, since most of the perpetrators of cryptocurrency scams are overseas. “We want to prevent our seniors and our residents from falling victim to these scams. We believe this ordinance will help do that,” she said at the Dec. 2 Sterling Heights City Council meeting. See SCAMS on page 12A

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including the cafeteria, the auxiliary gym and other places. “This will give every one of the teams more space for their practices and not have to practice, you know, until 10 o’clock at night,” Birko said. “Or roll the mats up,” Fraser Public Schools Superintendent Carrie Wozniak said. It will not affect the neighboring tennis courts and student life will go unaffected as well. Birko said this expansion was a long time coming and that it is exciting for the high school and the district. Wozniak said the need for the expansion was recognized a while ago. The bond for the expansion and other things such as heating, cooling and ventilation and the parking lots was passed by voters four years ago. The entire bond was worth $59 million. Birko said they didn’t know how everything was going to come together initially. “We were actually going to take this area and do something over at the stadium and as the bond started to proceed, we realized that that wasn’t a cost-effective way,”

Birko said. “This was going to be far more cost-effective to encompass this area and utilize some of the existing space.” Birko said a lot of the bond had technical aspects the public can’t see and that this was one of the visible construction projects. Fraser High School Athletic Director Shane Redshaw said the teams and the athletic administration have been asking for this for a while and that they finally had the opportunity to put it on the bond. “This is well overdue and something that cheer and wrestling and gymnastics and dance have been asking for since I’ve been here, for 10 years,” Redshaw said. He said they have seen an increase in kids getting involved in the teams and that there is also a club wrestling team running out of the middle school. Redshaw said the students and staff are excited for the new addition. Parents, students and others have been asking for the new addition for years and they knew about it when it was placed on the bond four years ago. Redshaw said he wants to thank the Fraser Public Schools Board of Education and the administration for placing it on the bond. “School board, superintendent, they went above and beyond to get us what we needed for the Athletic Department,” Red-

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The expansion will provide more room for the teams to perform their exercises, routines and practices at Fraser High School. shaw said. “Right now, we’re currently one of the few schools in Macomb that doesn’t have an all-purpose mat room so for us this puts us on the same level as a lot of schools in our area now.”

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In a press release sent by the city ahead of the meeting, it was stated that Sterling Heights has 27 machines operating within its borders. The Sterling Heights Police Department has investigated 23 fraud cases tied directly to the machines, with losses totalling more than $542,000. Hopper said she was told this is the highest number of machines in any of the surrounding areas. “The FBI notified me that this is the highest amount in any community in this area, Macomb County or Oakland County, and because of that we have more scams than any other city or county around us,” she said. The Sterling Heights ordinance follows the lead of Grosse Pointe Farms. The eastern Wayne County community made history on July 14, 2025, by approving the state’s first ordinance regulating the depositing, signage and registration of cryptocurrency ATMs. The ordinance’s limits for new users include a $1,000 maximum transaction limit within the first 24 hours, a $5,000 transaction limit over a 14-day period and verbal confirmation for transitions over $500. Mount Clemens City Commissioners

have discussed the possibility of passing an ordinance similar to Grosse Pointe Farms following a Nov. 17 meeting where a Citizen Hero Award was given to a community member who intervened to stop a resident from being scammed at a cryptocurrency ATM. In Macomb County, the Office of Senior Services hosts the Macomb County Elder Justice Alliance. The group of over 80 professionals works to find out how and why elder abuse occurs in the county. It also supports committees that promote scam education and seniors that have fallen victim to scams. “We meet regularly to look at cases and how to support the victim and wrap services around them so they don’t get scammed again or we can stop the bleeding and try to put holds on their accounts and really support them through the reporting and prosecution process,” Cote said. The alliance is currently working to better educate law enforcement and other community members thanks to a four-year $750,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Justice. Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido also runs scam prevention courses and provides a booklet about the issue titled “Stopping Crimes Against Macomb Seniors.”

Lucido says that scam victims should report their case to authorities as soon as they realize it. Only one out of 24 cases of scams targeting seniors is reported, according to Cote. “Don’t be embarrassed,” Lucido said. “Don’t be ashamed. Don’t be afraid … Time is of the essence, which means you have an obligation to get on the phone or go into your local law enforcement agency and report it. Even if it’s a family member or a loved one, and that happens a lot. It happens too much and too often. Please go in and report it. Let the people who identify these things get the information quickly and as clearly as possible so they can start work on a solution to get you your money back … If it is a family member and you feel like you’re being taken advantage of, then Adult Protective Services will step in and smoothly transition you out of a situation that’s bad and put you into a better situation to take care of yourself.” Time is of the essence in scam cases due to the many technological hurdles that cases present to investigators and prosecutors seeking convictions. “Just trying to go ahead and identify who the scammer is if it’s online is very difficult, because they could be scamming from around the corner of your house or they could be scamming from out of state or they

could be scamming from out of the country,” Lucido said. “And then they go and set up these bank accounts or depositories where the money that you have goes into these accounts, and then they close the accounts out so you can never retrieve the money or have it traceable to whoever got the money … We do look at IP addresses with computers to see who it traces back to and we try our best to hurry up and get those individuals so at least we have a fighting chance to try to nail down the individual and nail down the money.” For Cote, the best way community members can prevent scams is to keep an eye on the vulnerable people around them. “Are they suddenly not paying their bills?” Cote said. “Are they foregoing their medication? Do they look disheveled when they do see them? Just taking the time to ask more questions. It’s our responsibility as a community to protect and look out for our older adults … Not just law enforcement, not just Adult Protective Services, but all of us that come into contact with older adults. Let’s not push them in a corner and not listen to them … Pay attention and if you see something, say something and report it.” Call Staff Writer Dean Vaglia at (586) 498-1043. Call Staff Writer Brian Wells at (248) 291-7637.

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Police complete DoorDash order

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Officers pulled over a 30-year-old Detroit man in the area of Lake Shore and South Deeplands roads for speeding — traveling 60 mph in a 35 mph zone — at 2:38 p.m. Nov. 15. Because the driver had an expired registration and lacked insurance, police needed to impound his vehicle. The driver — who was in the process of delivering a meal to an address on Sunningdale Drive for DoorDash — asked officers if they would complete the delivery, since he no longer had a vehicle. Officers agreed to bring the meal to the customer, who wasn’t far from the traffic stop, as a courtesy. The driver was cited and released at the scene.

Officers respond to injury accident

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Police responded to the scene of a personal injury accident in the area of Lake Shore Road and Fontana Lane at around 9:29 a.m. Nov. 5 after a 21-year-old Bloomfield Hills man is said to have driven his vehicle — a Ford Escape — inside a parked landscaping vehicle. Officers said they had to break the man’s passenger-side window to get him out of the vehicle through the window. The driver, who was uninjured but still evaluated on the scene by medics, told officers that he had been taking a video of the lake with his cellphone when he crashed, showing officers the video he recorded. Officers said they recovered orange traffic cones that the landscaping crew had apparently placed around the trailer that the driver pushed into the trailer with his vehicle. No one from the landscaping crew had been inside the trailer or landscaping truck when the accident occurred. The driver was cited for failure to stop within an assured clear distance and distracted driving causing an accident.

Speeder stopped

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Police said a 77-year-old St. Clair Shores man zipped past a patrol vehicle going about 50 mph in a 35 mph zone in the area of Lake Shore Road and Lake Shore Lane at around 5:43 p.m. Nov. 16. For reference, the public safety officer indicated in a report that he was driving 37 mph. The driver also failed to use his signal when changing lanes, police said. The driver was able to provide police with his license, registration and proof of insurance. He was given a warning, police said.

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GROSSE POINTE PARK — An unknown suspect stole two RedMax leaf blowers worth $500 from a vehicle parked in front of a home in the 1300 block of Berkshire Road at around 12:50 p.m. Nov. 26. The victim witnessed a male suspect leave the scene in a white Ram 1500 Rebel pickup truck.

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HARRISON TOWNSHIP — On Nov. 22 at around 10:15 a.m., a 69-year-old Macomb Township woman spoke with Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies about property damage that occurred in Harrison Township. On the prior day, the woman parked her car at the Crocker Boulevard McDonald’s and went on a bike ride. When she returned from the ride, she found the bike rack on her car to be badly damaged. The woman wished to be reimbursed if a suspect could be found.

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HARRISON TOWNSHIP — On Nov. 17 at around 4:10 p.m., a 49-year-old Harrison Township woman spoke with Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies about a fraud case. The woman runs a food truck and finds vending opportunities online. On Oct. 4, she paid $220 to someone claiming to have a job for her at an event in Ferndale. When she went to the Ferndale job on Nov. 15, she learned she did not have a spot at the event and sent the money to a scammer. The woman wished to press charges.

Hit and run

MOUNT CLEMENS — On Nov. 12 at around 11:50 p.m., Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies were sent to the 80 block of Beyne Street for a hit and run report. Deputies spoke with a 60-year-old Mount Clemens woman who said her Chevrolet Malibu sedan was struck by a passing car. While she was getting bags out of her car, the suspect car drove south from Robertson Street and struck the Malibu’s door, pushing the woman inside of the car. The woman wished to press charges.

12:30 a.m., Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the corner of North Avenue and Ferrin Place for an incident. Deputies spoke with a 30-year-old Clinton Township woman. The woman had previously been removed from county property due to being belligerent. After being told by the deputies that she could no longer stay on the property, the woman kicked the grill of the Ford Explorer police cruiser. She was arrested and taken to the Macomb County Jail.

ed to the 55000 block of Shelby Road for a fraud complaint at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 2. Upon arrival, the officer met with the victim, who said she was trying to update her YouTube TV subscription and used Google to look up the phone number. The person on the other line ended up being a scammer who talked the woman into providing sensitive banking information that allowed the scammer to scam her out of almost $4,000 from her bank account. Detectives were investigating.

Police seek caffeinated crook

Drunken men arrested for disorderly conduct after fighting in random backyard

ST. CLAIR SHORES — At 10:03 a.m. on Nov. 28, a case of larceny was reported in the 22000 block of Amherst Street. The victim, a 69-year-old man, visited the police station and stated a package was missing from his porch. He ordered a coffee machine, and it was reportedly delivered on Nov. 25. When he checked the front porch, however, it was gone. The coffee machine was worth $99.

Man wanted for using counterfeit money

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Police officers were dispatched to the CVS Pharmacy at 46960 Van Dyke Ave. for a counterfeit money complaint at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2. Upon arrival, they met with a store employee who said that at around 5:30 p.m., a man came in and paid for an item with $220 in counterfeit money. The officer was able to get a vehicle description from video surveillance. Detectives connected the suspect to other counterfeit transactions out of Canton. The investigation was ongoing.

Police arrest drunken driver

MOUNT CLEMENS — On Nov. 12 at around 4:10 p.m., Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the 30 block of Rosebud Lane for an animal bite incident. Deputies spoke with a 49-year-old Mount Clemens woman. At around 4 p.m., she was walking her brown terrier mix dog when an unknown white dog emerged before her, biting her and her dog. A neighbor helped restrain the dog and helped deputies put the white dog into the patrol car. The dog was brought to Mount Clemens Animal Control.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — An officer observed a passenger vomiting while hanging out of a vehicle in the area of Mound and 23 Mile roads at 2:40 a.m. Nov. 27. When the light turned green, the driver accelerated at a high rate of speed and had a hard time maintaining the vehicle within the lines of the roadway. The officer conducted a traffic stop and met with the driver and passenger. Upon meeting the driver, the officer could smell a strong odor of intoxicants coming from the vehicle. The driver admitted to having two beers before driving, police said. The driver exited the vehicle to conduct roadside sobriety tests. After a preliminary breath test, the driver was arrested for operating while intoxicated, lodged at the Macomb County Jail and released once sober.

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Animal bite

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SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Police were dispatched to the 53000 block of Westwood Park, near 24 Mile Road and Van Dyke Avenue, for two men fighting at 3:10 a.m. Nov. 29. While en route, the caller stated that he did not know the two men fighting in his backyard. Upon arrival, the officer had to break up the fight. Both men had been drinking and showed signs of intoxication. They were both issued disorderly conduct tickets and transported home.

Check fraud

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — On Nov. 20 at around 1:30 p.m., Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies spoke with an 84-year-old Macomb Township woman about a case of alleged check fraud. On Nov. 6, the woman wrote a $150 check to a lawn care company. On Nov. 20, a man tried cashing a check at a Warren credit union using her checking details. The check, for around $960, was confiscated as potential fraud.

Phone mailing scam

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — On Nov. 17 at around 1 p.m., Macomb County Sheriff’s Office deputies spoke with a 71-year-old Macomb Township woman about a case of fraud she was reportedly caught in. About a week prior to the report, the woman was contacted by a male caller claiming to be from a telephone company with an offer for a new phone. Per his instructions, the woman purchased a $75 phone the following day and called the man to have it activated. The man told her to send him the phone in order to activate it. When she asked the man on Nov. 13 about when the phone would be returned, the man told her shipping was delayed. It was at that point she realized the scam — buying a phone and sending it to someone — and ended her call.