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Here’s a look at “Green Up” and community clean-up day events taking place in the Upper Valley in the coming weeks. Please send email additions and updates to calendar@vnews.com.FAIRLEEGreen Up Day: Saturday, May 7. Bags and route sign-ups available...

Retiring library director honored with new building endowment Former Baldwin Public Library Director Doug Koschik was recently honored with a building endowment fund created in his name. Photo provided by Baldwin Public Library Director Rebekah Craft Advertisement BIRMINGHAM — Last month, Director Doug Koschik retired from the Baldwin Public Library after 30 years of service. But he’s certainly not gone for good. To celebrate his retirement, the library’s board of directors announced a ne...

Leaders hope to leave 2020 behind in healthier, more stable year There are dozens of office buildings on Telegraph Road in Bingham Farms, and many have lost tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Tiffany Esshaki OAKLAND COUNTY — On Jan. 1, the world celebrated the start of a new year. But let’s get real: We were really toasting the end and good riddance of 2020, a year filled with illnesses, upheaval and general misery. Alas, we get a chance to start over and keep working toward som...

Its been a tough year for Jonathan and Sarah Jacobss business. The Franklin couple that owns The Robot Garage in Birmingham and Rochester Hills has kept their doors closed to children since March when shutdowns over COVID-19 began.  The center, which brings in children as young as preschool age to teach them all about robotics, has plenty of kits and toys available for sale that are just sitting in their shop, not being played with. So instead of collecting dust, the Jacobs decided to make an ...

When the doors of the Baldwin Public Library open again, Rebekah Craft will be there to welcome visitors as the new director. Craft will take the reins at the library Jan. 16, chosen by the library board to take over for Doug Koschik, who is retiring after working for the library for 30 years, the past 11 as director. Her path to the top spot was a fairly quick one in a world where full-time library jobs are scarce and competed for fiercely. “I feel very fortunate to have found a job working...