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Monday, December 17, 2012

5 Things To Know This Week: City Considers Controversial Bike Race, Yard Waste Collection Ends

Here's what you need to know about Birmingham this week, including author Michael Hodges' visit to Baldwin Public Library and the Birmingham Republican Women's Club holiday party.

City Commission to meet Monday: The Birmingham City Commission will meet for a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall. On the agenda is the Woodward Gran Fondo bike race and reccommended changes at Greenwood Cemetery. School Board to meet Tuesday: The Birmingham Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the district's administrative offices. On the agenda is a report from the district's achievement gap committee. Birmingham Republican Women's Club Holiday Party Wednesday: The Birmingham Republican Women's Club will meet their for their annual holiday party from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the The Village Club at 190 E. Long Lake Rd. in Bloomfield Hills. Dave Dulio, chair of the political science department at Oakland …

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Baldwin Library Welcomes 2 Authors to Birmingham This December

Local photographer and writer Michael Hodges, as well as Northville author Theresa Irish, will read from their latest books at Baldwin this month.

History fans, take note: Birmingham's Baldwin Public Library will be hosting two authors this December and they're talking World War II and Michigan history. Baldwin will be hosting author programs with Teresa Irish on Dec. 6 and Michael Hodges on Dec. 19. Both programs are at 7 p.m. Irish is the author of A Thousand of Letters Home: One WWII Soldier's Story of War, Love and Life. The WWII Correspondence of Aarol W. "Bud" Irish. A Northville resident, Irish's visit to Baldwin is in remembrance of Pearl Habor Day on Dec. 7. One day after her father's death in 2006, Irish discovered an old army trunk in her childhood home, finding thousands of handwritten letters postmarked from 1942-45. Written by Irish's father to his parents and the …

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