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Gearheads make district history scoring silver medals at international competition BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
GROSSE POINTES — The Gearheads, a Unified FIRST Robotics team consisting of students from Grosse Pointe North and South high schools, made district history when they earned second place at the FIRST Robotics Challenge World Championship at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston in late April. The team members, joined by parents and mentors, collected their medals and saw their trophies May 2 in their workshop at North. “It was difficult,” said the team’s faculty adviser, North math teacher Jack Pierick. “It was challenging. But we made a lot of friends along the way. … This
Gearheads team captain Drew Behringer — who’s graduating in June from Grosse Pointe North High School — high-fives one of the adult mentors as he and his teammates get their medals May 2.
See GEARHEADS on page 10A
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Higher usage of sewerage services leading to rate hike in Grosse Pointe City CITY — When water and sewer bills get sent out to Grosse Pointe City residents after July 1, customers may experience sticker shock. Because of new, more precise
metering, the Great Lakes Water Authority is increasing the flow charge to the City for sewerage by 28%. And as high as that figure is, it could have been even higher. Grosse Pointe City Manager Joseph Valentine said the City negotiated with GLWA after GLWA Chief
Planning Officer Jody Caldwell said their actual calculations would have put the increase at 56%. During an April 15 Grosse Pointe City Council meeting, Caldwell explained that the GLWA updates sewage flow data every three years. Until this year, he said, the City
had been in the Detroit Plus District, where sewage flows weren’t metered individually. Based on the data, the City “contributes much more wastewater” to the GLWA system than the prior estimates that had been used for billing, Caldwell said. See SEWERAGE on page 8A
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