A few quick bits of information to get the day started in Grosse Pointe.
Five quick pieces of information to get the day started in Grosse Pointe: 1. Bring the umbrella today, according to National Weather Service there is a 40 percent chance of rainshowers and thunderstorms with a high near 78 and winds between 15 to 17 miles per hour with gusts reaching 29 miles per hour. Partly cloudy conditions will remain tonight with a low of 53. 2. Grosse Pointe Shores council meets tonight with a committee of the whole meeting beginning at 6 p.m. A council meeting follows at 7 p.m. The agenda has a variety of topics including: 3. Grosse Pointe Farms council defered any questions by residents who came to the regularly scheduled meeting Monday concerning flooding in their homes until the special meeting Thursday. City …
Their fellow firefighter couldn't be there so they served as dad for a day, taking a Grosse Pointe second-grader to school by fire rig and walking him in as his late father would have.
Not many days passed that Robert Murray didn’t deliver his son, usually hand in hand, to school at Maire Elementary last year. So when Robert died last March at age 42 gone was his son Miles’ consistent companion across the school yard. His death would have seemingly ended his dream to take his son to school on the fire rig. Yet on the first day of school, Miles, a second-grader at Maire Elementary and a resident of Grosse Pointe, rode to school on a fire engine and got a personal escort to the school door by Detroit firefighters who stepped in to make sure Miles’ dad’s wish came true. The escort witnessed by parents and teachers brought tears to their eyes, nothing unusual really on a first day of school, but watching Miles be lovingly …
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Brian Haberstroh
11:52 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Yes, I should not have implied that the administrator was a man but where did I bring the principal up at all? I just said "administrator". I do not know how the school is run. I think my comment was very fair given the amount of information in the story. What is sad is that someone in a position of some authority (if it was the principal then yes, I would be putting her down) actually thought … more ›