Mark E Lett

Downriver home sales making the pivot to 2026 with greater strength and stability. (FILE PHOTO)

Expanding inventories, modest price increases highlight Downriver home sale market

January 23, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

Slowly, steadily and carefully, the Downriver home sales market is making the pivot to 2026 with greater strength and stability. The quest for steadiness follows a half-decade of residential real...

The Rubleys purchased this home on Crooks Street in Brownstown Township to be closer to their adult children. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Downriver home sale inventory expanding

October 29, 2025 at 6:35 a.m.

Figures also indicate a modest bump upward in sales prices.

Crystal Hickerson (Photo courtesy of Crystal Hickerson)

Pontiac author uses the ghosts she’s seen to inspire her writing

September 2, 2025 at 6:41 a.m.

A mother of two grown children, Crystal Hickerson made a career as a hospice care professional and grief counselor. There, too, she found reasons for writing.

Pontiac author uses the ghosts she’s seen to inspire her writing

October 30, 2025 at 4:14 p.m.

A mother of two grown children, Crystal Hickerson made a career as a hospice care professional and grief counselor. There, too, she found reasons for writing.

Downriver and Dearborn home sales have been a mixed bag through the first half of 2025. (FILE PHOTO)

Home sales in area moving to benefit buyers

July 30, 2025 at 6:25 a.m.

The Downriver and Dearborn markets for home sale are moving – ever slow slightly – to the benefit of buyers. Through the first half of this year, the local market...

Detroit native Jeff Swaney is out with his first book, “None of the Answers.” It recalls his days as an “all-star altar boy” in Royal Oak to factory work at Detroit’s Budd Wheel, to rubbing shoulders with high-rollers in Texas. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Swaney)

Detroit native returns home to promote memoir with deep Motown, Royal Oak roots

July 18, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.

You can take the man out of Motown, but you can’t take Motown out of the man. And so it goes for Jeff Swaney, a native Detroiter who made it...

Detroit native returns home to promote memoir with deep Motown, Royal Oak roots

October 30, 2025 at 4:50 p.m.

You can take the man out of Motown, but you can’t take Motown out of the man. And so it goes for Jeff Swaney, a native Detroiter who made it...

Legislative roundup: Budget request would beef up career and tech offerings

June 10, 2025 at 6:35 a.m.

Two Downriver lawmakers are pressing state legislators to spend nearly $6 million to beef up a career and technical training program serving nine local school districts, offering more than two...

Legislative roundup: Budget request would beef up career and tech offerings

October 30, 2025 at 5:34 p.m.

Two Downriver lawmakers are pressing state legislators to spend nearly $6 million to beef up a career and technical training program serving nine local school districts, offering more than two...

Pontiac native Larry Joe Campbell recently published his second book and first novel, “Remember That One Time?”
(Photo courtesy of Larry Joe Campbell)

‘According to Jim’ star Larry Joe Campbell pens Michigan-based book, ‘Remember That One Time?’

May 19, 2025 at 6:18 a.m.

Born in Pontiac and raised in Cadillac, Campbell’s book draws upon his years as an actor and comedian on college stages in Michigan, in Detroit’s Second City sketch comedy troupe...

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