Amanda Brewington is cool and collected. She calmly splits her time and attention between chatting with customers, ringing up orders, and keeping an eye on who’s coming through the door at Always Brewing Detroit. Over the last year, her business has become more and more established as a cornerstone in the community, with recently expanded…
On July 17, from 6-8pm, The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department will hold a community meeting at the North Rosedale Park Community House, 18445 Scarsdale, to discuss the goals of the department and seek feedback from the community. The focus of the meeting will be on water supply and in particular on a new Water…
On Monday, July 7th Becki Kenderes, GRDC’s Sustainable Communities Program Manager, was worried – very worried. “Have you seen the weather forecast for Saturday?” The GRDC 25th Anniversary Picnic was scheduled for Saturday, and the forecast called for thunderstorms. As the week went on and preparations for the anniversary picnic neared completion, the thunderstorms changed…
“A Day at the Fair,” “Summer in the Park,” “Countdown to the Millennium”. For 84 years North Rosedale Park residents have come up with a theme around which the annual June Day is organized. This year’s theme was “A Bright Future in North Rosedale Park.” Judging from the long history of this festive neighborhood gathering,…
“Red-tail!” “I see it!” “Look! On the far tree, left of the main trunk!” The conversation is about birds and the 25 or so bird watchers, or “birders,” as they often call themselves, are excited about spotting a hard to see warbling vireo or a brilliant Baltimore oriole or a knocking red-bellied woodpecker or a…
When you step inside the Just a Bit Eclectic retail tea shop at 19015 West McNichols, you know immediately why the owner, Darlene Alston, named her shop “eclectic”. You might argue with the “just a bit” though. It is a magical tea shop, nothing “bit” about it. Darlene has artfully arranged unusual, old, and new…
On Tuesday, May 27, residents from the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods gathered at the North Rosedale Park Community House to hear about the progression of the Traffic Calming initiative for Grandmont Rosedale. Stacy Pugh, president of the Rosedale Park Improvement Association, welcomed the attendees as well as the Traffic Calming committee members representing all five Grandmont…
Early this week a familiar friend’s life was saved by the attentive and vocal community of Grandmont Rosedale. A 200 year old white oak, with the circumference of 144” was scheduled to be cut down for the repaving of Verne Street between Warwick and Shaftsbury. Word quickly got out that “the tree in the road”…
On Friday, June 13 from 5-7pm, Grandmont Rosedale artists will be featured in the art show entitled “They Lion Grow: A Detroit Art Show, Vol. III” at Always Brewing Detroit, 19180 Grand River. This theme of this art opening is based on the poem “They Feed They Lion” by fellow Detroiter, Philip Levine. Best known…
Peter Rettig, a resident of Rosedale Park from 1958-2010, doesn’t remember a June without a June Day in Rosedale Park. Peter has many fond memories of the over 50 June Days he attended. “I went to all of them! They were a big deal!” The earliest June Days that he remembers took place at Stoepel…