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2 weeks ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
Julie Foust remembers coming to The Alger House 40 years ago when she first moved to Grosse Pointe a... Log In With Your Email and ZipAn active subscription to the Grosse Pointe News is required to view this article. Please call (313) 343-5578 to subscribe. Subscribers who want to reset their password can click hereThe Grosse Pointe News has migrated to a new subscription/circulation management system that allows readers to easily subscribe and manage their subscriptions through the website.
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3 weeks ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
Chad Murphy CITY OF GROSSE POINTE — With the March departure of parks and recreation coordinator Reb... Log In With Your Email and ZipAn active subscription to the Grosse Pointe News is required to view this article. Please call (313) 343-5578 to subscribe. Subscribers who want to reset their password can click hereThe Grosse Pointe News has migrated to a new subscription/circulation management system that allows readers to easily subscribe and manage their subscriptions through the website.
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3 weeks ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
CITY OF GROSSE POINTE — Steve Dothage grew up in St. Louis, where a handful of popular pretzel bakeries are scattered around the historically German town and the twisted treat is a pretty big deal.
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3 weeks ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
CITY OF GROSSE POINTE — A year and a half since opening, the owners of Shift Kitchen & Cocktails in The Village have taken market feedback and are adjusting the restaurant’s concept accordingly. The lounge-style cocktail bar was not fully embraced by the community, co-owner Mark Adamo said, and fits better the demographic of Birmingham — its original location — than it does The Village, where patrons are more receptive to a family eatery.
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1 month ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
Log In With Your Email and ZipAn active subscription to the Grosse Pointe News is required to view this article. Please call (313) 343-5578 to subscribe. Subscribers who want to reset their password can click hereThe Grosse Pointe News has migrated to a new subscription/circulation management system that allows readers to easily subscribe and manage their subscriptions through the website.
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1 month ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
THE GROSSE POINTES — Families and children can experience their favorite trucks up close and personal during the Pointes’ first “Touch a Truck” event 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, May 18, at Pier Park, 350 Lakeshore. “We are going to have a bunch of big, fun trucks that are all the little children’s favorite things in this community,” said Nora Ezop, board member of the Grosse Pointe Farms Foundation, which is sponsoring the free event in partnership with the city and Pier Park.
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1 month ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
CITY OF GROSSE POINTE — “Here we are two years later,” developer Brian Giles said, from when the former Cadieux School at 389 St. Clair was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in spring 2023. The building housed functioning schools until the 1950s and then served as administrative offices for the Grosse Pointe Public School System until 2021. Today, it stands repurposed into a luxury apartment complex known as the Historic Residences at St. Clair.
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1 month ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
Photo by Laurel KrausUrban Forestry Commissioner Alaine Bush preps Maire Green Team members on how t... Log In With Your Email and ZipAn active subscription to the Grosse Pointe News is required to view this article. Please call (313) 343-5578 to subscribe. Subscribers who want to reset their password can click hereThe Grosse Pointe News has migrated to a new subscription/circulation management system that allows readers to easily subscribe and manage their subscriptions through the website.
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2 months ago | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
Photo courtesy of SEMCOGBloomfield Township Treasurer Michael Schostak and City of Grosse Pointe May... Log In With Your Email and ZipAn active subscription to the Grosse Pointe News is required to view this article. Please call (313) 343-5578 to subscribe. Subscribers who want to reset their password can click hereThe Grosse Pointe News has migrated to a new subscription/circulation management system that allows readers to easily subscribe and manage their subscriptions through the website.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
grossepointenews.com | Laurel Kraus
In 2019, shortly after moving from St. Louis to the Farms, Darraugh Collins reached out to Food Rescue US intending to volunteer and was told the nonprofit — which transfers surplus food from businesses to social service agencies — did not operate in Michigan. The person she spoke with asked if she’d be interested in starting a local chapter. “They said, ‘You know what, you just get one food donor, find an agency and then you’re started,’” Collins recalled. So she did.
