Mike McConnell

Mount Clemens

Multimedia Journalist at Daily Tribune (Clinton Township, MI)

Multimedia Journalist at Macomb Daily

Reporter for the Daily Tribune and Macomb Daily newspapers.

Articles

Ferndale targets budget savings before millage proposal goes before voters

Jun 30, 2024 | theoaklandpress.com | Mike McConnell

Ferndale officials are seeing financial savings in the city’s first budget efficiency report, which was recommended by a resident-led Finance Review Committee. The resident finance committee earlier this year recommended a Headlee override operating millage proposal of 4 mills go before voters to reset the city’s operating millage at 20 mills. City Council members recently approved putting the millage override before city voters in the November general election.
Volunteer cleanup in downtown Royal Oak yields over 600 pounds of debris

Jun 29, 2024 | theoaklandpress.com | Mike McConnell

Local Royal Oak volunteers along with a nonprofit, The Cleanup Club, and CN Railways collected hundreds of pounds of litter and debris in the downtown area over the weekend. Angela Fox, Royal Oak’s sustainability manager, said much of the cleanup on Saturday focused within the area near the railroad tracks owned by CN Railways. “It’s an area that doesn’t get cleaned up very often,” Fox said, adding only CN employees are allowed in railroad track areas, most of which are fenced off.
Royal Oak crime: Detroit man charged with aggravated indecent exposure gets $50K bond; Intoxicated driver charged in hit-and-run

Jun 29, 2024 | theoaklandpress.com | Mike McConnell

Man charged with aggravated indecent exposureA Detroit man is charged with aggravated indecent exposure after several witnesses say he exposed himself near an apartment pool before lying down in a nearby grassy area and masturbating. Suspect Len Tyler Stringer, 27, is jailed on a $50,000 cash bond and is set to appear before Royal Oak 44th District Court Judge Derek Meinecke for a hearing at 9:46 a.m. Friday.
Royal Oak files lawsuit against its parking meter contractor

Jun 28, 2024 | theoaklandpress.com | Mike McConnell

The troubled relationship between Royal Oak and the private company it hired three years ago to operate the city’s parking meter system has ended up in court and may end there. Royal Oak has filed a lawsuit against the company – Municipal Parking Services, Inc. and its insurer, Great Northern Insurance Company – in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Ferndale targets budget savings before millage proposal goes before voters

Jun 27, 2024 | dailytribune.com | Mike McConnell

Ferndale officials are seeing financial savings in the city’s first budget efficiency report, which was recommended by a resident-led Finance Review Committee. The resident finance committee earlier this year recommended a Headlee override operating millage proposal of 4 mills go before voters to reset the city’s operating millage at 20 mills. City Council members recently approved putting the millage override before city voters in the November general election.
Royal Oak files lawsuit against its parking meter contractor

Jun 26, 2024 | dailytribune.com | Mike McConnell

The troubled relationship between Royal Oak and the private company it hired three years ago to operate the city’s parking meter system has ended up in court and may end there. Royal Oak has filed a lawsuit against the company – Municipal Parking Services, Inc. and its insurer, Great Northern Insurance Company – in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Volunteer cleanup in downtown Royal Oak yields over 600 pounds of debris

Jun 25, 2024 | dailytribune.com | Mike McConnell

Local Royal Oak volunteers along with a nonprofit, The Cleanup Club, and CN Railways collected hundreds of pounds of litter and debris in the downtown area over the weekend. Angela Fox, Royal Oak’s sustainability manager, said much of the cleanup on Saturday focused within the area near the railroad tracks owned by CN Railways. “It’s an area that doesn’t get cleaned up very often,” Fox said, adding that only CN employees are allowed in railroad track areas, most of which are fenced off.
Royal Oak crime: Detroit man charged with aggravated indecent exposure gets $50K bond; Intoxicated driver charged in hit-and-run

Jun 24, 2024 | dailytribune.com | Mike McConnell

Man charged with aggravated indecent exposureA Detroit man is charged with aggravated indecent exposure after several witnesses say he exposed himself near an apartment pool before lying down in a nearby grassy area and masturbating. Suspect Len Tyler Stringer, 27, is jailed on a $50,000 cash bond and is set to appear before Royal Oak 44th District Court Judge Derek Meinecke for a hearing at 9:46 a.m. Friday.
180 bands, cannabis sales, consumption set for Arts, Beats and Eats

Jun 17, 2024 | theoaklandpress.com | Mike McConnell

Organizers of the Soaring Eagle Arts, Beats and Eats festival in Royal Oak highlighted some of the features of this year’s four-day festival over Labor Day weekend, including the return of the House of Dank cannabis sales and consumption area. The festival promises to kick off a collaboration between House of Dank and Baker College in an educational certificate program at the college for employment in the legal marijuana industry.
Juneteenth event in Royal Oak includes mobile Black history museum, freedom walk

Jun 16, 2024 | theoaklandpress.com | Mike McConnell

Royal Oak will celebrate its fourth annual Juneteenth Celebration on Wednesday with activities, speakers, educators and a Freedom Strive walk as part of the event marking the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865. The event is from 3-8 p.m. June 19 at Centennial Commons. New this year is a mobile Black History 101 Museum at Farmers Market started by Dr. Khalid el-Hakim, showing Black History from the time of slavery to hip hop culture. The museum’s collection consists of more than 10,000 artifacts.