Shelby Township to host Independence Day fireworks
The Shelby Township DDA Independence Day Fireworks, seen here in 2019, will take place at Ford Field Central Park, 7460 23 Mile Road, at 10 p.m. July 1.
File photo by Erin Sanchez
SHELBY TOWNSHIP After a one-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shelby Township Downtown Development Authority Independence Day Fireworks are back July 1 at Ford Field Central Park at 7460 23 Mile Road.
The fireworks can be viewed throughout the township’s Van Dyke Avenue commercial corridor with the epicenter at 23 Mile Road and Van Dyke.
Township Supervisor Rick Stathakis said the fireworks show isn’t one that people would want to miss.
Attorney General’s Office issues ruling on November 2018 shooting
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SHELBY TOWNSHIP On March 9, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office made a final ruling that a Shelby Township police officer acted with justification when he fatally shot a suspect in 2018 who turned out to be unarmed.
The Attorney General’s Office said that it had cleared officer Jason Zuk, who was the officer who fired the one shot in the incident in Shelby Township in November 2018, and closed its file on the incident.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel had agreed last July to review the 2018 case in which the suspect, a 25-year-old Macomb County man, turned out to be unarmed, to evaluate whether charges should have been filed against law enforcement involved in the incident. The Attorney General’s Office said it reviewed 18 different types of evidence, including hours of footage from four police dashboard cameras that captured the incident, and it spoke to all of the officers involved
SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA The Shelby Township Police Department made a large donation of bikes to a local program in hopes that the bikes will find new owners who need them.
Democrats were in trouble. It was November 1984, and white, working-class voters in Macomb County had overwhelmingly voted for President Ronald Reagan for a second term. The Dems were losing their suburban, blue-collar base, and nowhere was the loss more pronounced than in Macomb County, home of the white, unionized autoworker. Just 20 years earlier, three-quarters of Macomb County voters turned out for President Lyndon Johnson, making it the most heavily Democratic suburban county in the U.S. To figure out what happened, local Democratic Party leaders hired Yale professor and pollster Stanley Greenberg. In March 1985, Greenberg sat down with Macomb County s Democratic defectors in hotel rooms and restaurants. After more than a month of interviews, Greenberg came to an startling conclusion: White, working-class voters who long identified as Democrats were fed up, fearful, and increasingly xenophobic. Their manufacturing jobs, which provided de
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