Shane Reeside News Today

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — In response to interest from a number of residents, Grosse Pointe Farms officials plan to create permanent pickleball courts at Pier Park.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Grosse Pointe Farms residents and their guests have a new way to spend their Thursday evenings this summer.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Pack your patience if you’ll be driving through Grosse Pointe Farms this summer. Work started May 8 on Kercheval Avenue between Fisher and Muir roads, which includes the Hill business district.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Another Hill restaurant will be bringing outdoor dining into the street. The Bronze Door, at 123 Kercheval Ave., will be erecting a dining platform on the street in front of the restaurant using two on-street parking spaces for that purpose.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Motown has lost its “Angel of Jazz.” Surrounded by family, businesswoman and philanthropist Gretchen Carhartt Valade, 97, died at her Grosse Pointe Farms home Dec. 30.

Life News

The heir to the Ford family fortune demanded that a local Catholic church in his Detroit-area suburb strip down a pro-life display.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — The Detroit Auto Show might have motorists dreaming of the vehicles of the future, but that doesn’t mean they can’t still appreciate the cars of the past.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS/SHORES — Emergency repairs to some of the most deteriorated sections of the Lake St. Clair seawall in Grosse Pointe Farms and Shores are underway.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS/SHORES — The crumbling seawall along Lake St. Clair in Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Shores is finally going to be getting at least some repairs.