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Rochester Hills Stoney Creek celebrates its Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 Competitive Cheer State Championship win at Central Michigan University’s McGuirk Arena March 1. Photo provided by the MHSAA/Hockey Weekly
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ROCHESTER HILLS — For the past three seasons, Rochester Hills Stoney Creek’s senior group has watched its neighborhood rivals celebrate at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 Competitive Cheer State Championship. Rochester raised the title in 2023, while both Rochester and Stoney Creek witnessed the emergence of Rochester Adams behind
three-straight state championships from 2020 to 2022. The Cougars’ 2024 senior class was in the rearview of Adams’ 2022 state title as state runners-up, and they were determined to make sure their high school career wouldn’t be remembered with a second-place finish. “I think that was definitely our pushing point from that moment, because we were like, ‘We want to earn that champion-
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ROCHESTER HILLS — Residents can help shape the new vision for the city of Rochester Hills for the next five years, officials said. The city is in the process of updating its master plan and is once again asking the community what the future of Rochester Hills should look like. Mayor Bryan Barnett said a master plan is a blueprint, or a roadmap, for how the community should evolve and how it should develop. “A master plan is about guiding development in the city in a way that enhances the experiences of residents,” he said in a statement. “Of course it needs to be sustainable, resilient and age friendly, and while our community is largely built out, we still have some vacant parcels, along with some properties that are ready to be redeveloped and even modernized.” The city’s last full master plan was completed in 2007, and it was updated in 2013 and again in 2018. The long-range document will help guide policy and decision-making about how land is used for housing, trans-