Farmington News

Post-election campaign statements due Dec. 5 show bond advocates and opponents spent more than $15,000 on the failed Nov. 5 Farmington Public Schools bond .

Entertainment will include a magician, face painting, animal balloons and performances by the Birmingham Groves Choir and Seaholm Band Ensemble.

Now is a good time to prune overgrown evergreens for a supply of greens to use for wreaths, swags and other holiday decorations.

Power Upper Elementary School Principal Jim Anderson listens as 4th grader Nora Flaherty explains her data notebook.

Staff from Warner Upper Elementary and Dunckel Middle schools will take on staff from Power Upper Elementary and East Middle schools when the popular "Battle of the Middles" charity basketball game returns next Friday, Dec. 13 at Farmington High School.

Residents in several areas of Livonia will have to wait a few more days before their leaves from this fall are picked up.

The Greater Farmington Chamber of Commerce hopes you had a Happy Thanksgiving and joyful holiday season.

A two-year-old private sector business incubator, partnerships with and access to universities, county, state and federal organizations, and strategic business connections are a few examples of the efforts Farmington Hills makes to foster and sustain business and economic development.

For the Lantto family, seeing Santa Claus is serious business. So serious, that they were the first in line to see Santa Tuesday night at the library as they waited for him to arrive after the city's tree-lighting ceremony.

While you are out and about at all the planned holiday activities throughout the community this weekend, be sure to stop by the annual Kwanzaa celebration that begins at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Farmington Hills library branch, 32737 12 Mile.

Farmington Public Safety detectives are investigating a Dec. 2 break-in at the Verizon store on Grand River Avenue near Orchard Lake Road.

Held as part of the Dec. 7 Holly Days celebration, the event includes a showing The 12 Dogs of Christmas and Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas .

Sharon Dargay puts gentle pressure on the sides of her bowl, which is taking shape on the wheel in Jan Bostwick's studio in Royal Oak.

Farmington Hills gets into the holiday spirit Tuesday, with the lighting of a unity candle and visit from Santa at the city's municipal campus on 11 Mile and Orchard Lake roads.

Farmington Youth Assistance , a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening area youth and families through community involvement, is seeking volunteers to adopt a family in Farmington or Farmington Hills.

What started as a place for Jason Stoops to make his soy candles has grown into something the Farmington Hills resident never anticipated.

See Santa in downtown Farmington, at Farmington Hills Fire Headquarters and the Governor Warner Mansion.

The Farmington Community Band Music Organization presents "A Wintery Mix" Dec. 15, 3 p.m., at the Harrison High School Auditorium.

The gazebo at the Gov. Warner Mansion will be the focus of the holiday tree lighting on Dec. 7. / Photo by Maria Taylor Visitors to the Gov. Warner Mansion may recall the gazebo - the little white structure on the side lawn - in one of several main functions.

If you're staying in town this weekend, there are a few activities on the Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch calendar that might interest you: The weekly winter market hosts a Farmington Community Library story hour and activity from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and the City of Farmington Hills Nature Center from 10:30 to noon.