Holly Dickens Festival, Weekends Nov. 25-Dec. 11 Holly, MI – This year – 2016 – marks the 43nd year of the Holly Dickens Festival. Following a remarkably strong 2014 revival season, and an even more spectacular 2015, we’re well on our way and continue as the official oldest, longest running Dickens themed event in the…
Ferndale Library Adds Delivery Service to Senior Apartments (Ferndale Area District Library, Nov. 14, 2016) FERNDALE, Mich. (Nov 10, 2016)– Starting in 2015, the Ferndale Library began a delivery service to housing complexes, carrying the most important cargo in the world: wisdom, knowledge, and literature. That’s right, Ferndale’s Traveling Library finds Interim Director Darlene Hellenberg…
Tips for Elevator & Escalator Safety Week (Office of Gov. Rick Snyder, Nov. 14, 2016) Lansing, MI – Gov. Rick Snyder has declared November 13-19 as Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week to educate the public to ride safely when using elevators, escalators, and moving walks. The state of Michigan has nearly 27,000 elevators and escalators.…
Royal Oak Holiday Magic Parade Nov. 20 (EVENT page) ROYAL OAK, MI. – Downtown Royal Oak invites families to the 15th Annual Holiday Magic Parade presented by Genisys Credit Union on Sunday, November 20th at 2pm. The parade starts at Lincoln and Washington and heads north on Washington to Fourth Street where it heads west…
Local Author to Present Book Talk on Underground Railroad Nov. 22 (EVENT page) FERNDALE, MI – Evelyn Millstein, a Royal Oak-based Librarian who has studied African American history for seventy of her eighty-six years, comes to the Ferndale Library on Tue, Nov 22 to discuss her new book The Underground Railroad: A Movement That Changed…