Senate’s Solution to Student Loan Rates Makes Potential Even Higher
That would cause 2013 rates to jump to 3.9% this year, higher than last year’s 3.4%. Rates are then projected to steadily increase each year, with rates hitting 7.25% by 2018.
That would cause 2013 rates to jump to 3.9% this year, higher than last year’s 3.4%. Rates are then projected to steadily increase each year, with rates hitting 7.25% by 2018.
The Ferndale Pride Committee has announced the date for next year’s Ferndale Pride as May 31, 2014. Though the date falls just outside of the traditional June month of Pride, it keeps the event from conflicting with the Motor City Pride which will be held June 7-8, 2014.
The Ferndale 115 is helping to promote animal adoption in our community by showcasing an adoptable animal each week in a new section called “Friday Fuzzy.” This week’s lovable critter is a six year old Basset Hound/Beagle Mix named Sugar.
Lillie D’or Salon and Spa located in Ferndale on Woodard Avenue between 8 and 9 mile opened its doors to 17 Detroit inner city youths of the Rhonda Walker Foundation for a day filled with complementary spa services.
Ferndale’s famous Pig & Whiskey festival took place last weekend, with people from all over SE Michigan packing into the area behind the WAB and the Emory for three days’ worth of music, food and drink.
Inside shoppers can find Michigan-grown produce, Detroit-themed apparel, and other local products like Atwater Brewery’s State Fair Pale Ale. Many Ferndale residents found coupons on their door in the past few days…
A commitment to learning is a big part of what made Ball an asset to Pleasant Ridge. Things changed quickly in the quarter of a century since she first started.
At their July 22 meeting, Ferndale City Council voted unanimously to honor Gattes by re-naming the hill the “Don Gattes Sledding Hill.”
On Thursday, July 25, 2013, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners Finance Committee will review the County Executive’s Recommended Balanced Triennial Budget for FY 2014 consisting of $799,148,947
Retiring Pleasant Ridge City Manager Sherry Ball Shares Memories (video) (Crystal A. Proxmire, July 24, 2013) After 26 years of service to the people of Pleasant Ridge, Sherry Ball is ready to say farewell, and get busy spending more time with her grand-kids. For the past 15 years she’s been the City Manager of the…
Pitt-McGehee has volunteered to represent Brown pro-bono so that there is no extra cost to the taxpayers.
“I’m glad the judge has said the plaintiffs should have their day in court,” Brown said.
Visitors will often be greeted by Vito at the front desk, and a get a fabulous smile and energy from Linda.
To learn more about this new Downtown Ferndale business, visit their website at http://shineonyoga.net/.
The survey will be available throughout July and August online at www.ferndalemi.gov and at City Hall, the Kulick Center and the Ferndale Library.
It’s critical that we examine not only the internal failures of the largest US city to ever declare bankruptcy, but also the context in which those failures occurred. And when we do examine the context, it’s clear that cities in general—in Michigan and across the nation—face many of the same challenges that pushed Detroit off the fiscal cliff.
State Senator Vincent Gregory (D-Southfield) will be hosting a town hall meeting on the Affordable Care Act in partnership with the AARP. Most of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act will go into effect in January 2014.
The founder and president of the Detroit Bus Company in Ferndale has donated a 20-ton portable air conditioning unit and diesel generator to the Oakland County Animal Control & Pet Adoption Center for the rest of the summer. Andy Didorosi, 26, asked Hertz Rental to deliver the equipment Friday. They worked with the county’s Facilities Management Department in the late afternoon to install it. The A/C unit will keep the dogs and cats at the Center cool on hot summer days.
There are non-alcoholic drinks available through the festival as well, and people are encouraged to pace themselves and drink responsibly. It’s a hot weekend, so watch out for dehydration. And never ever drink and drive.
For over thirty three years, Jerry enjoyed his work as a teacher and principal for Ferndale Public Schools. Jerry and Pauline raised their family of three boys in the Farmington area and moved to Commerce Township after Jerry’s retirement in 1991.
After over a year of pushing for changes at the Oakland County Pet Adoption Center, citizens in the group Oakland Pet Advocates have turned up the heat by transforming their group into a political action committee taking aim at elected officials who do not support their demands for animal control policy.
Following the budget presentation, the Board of Commissioners Finance Committee will hold budget hearings at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 25; Thursday, Aug. 8; and Thursday, Aug. 22. The board vote to adopt the budget will take place at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 19.