Good morning, Sterling Heights.

Sterling Heights will host the Cultural Exchange on Mar.

13 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Community Center (40250 Dodge Park Rd) where local artist Suria All-Ahmed and her mother, Amal Beydoun, will share art to foster cultural understanding.

Gas prices in Sterling Heights have risen with Michigan’s average increasing by 14 cents overnight amid renewed global oil market uncertainty+ officials note the surge is linked to the worsening conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran, and economists warn further hikes may strain household budgets.

Twenty Utica Community Schools students shadowed marine technicians at Jefferson Beach Yacht Sales and Colony Marine in St. Clair Shores Feb.

24–27 to learn key boat maintenance skills. They attended the Detroit Boat Show career day and will participate in the Novi Boat Show March 12–15.

Sterling Heights City Council scheduled a public hearing on a Combined Transformational Brownfield Plan (using local and state tax increment financing) for Lakeside City Center redevelopment on the former Lakeside Mall aimed at supporting mixed-use growth with new residential, retail, and park areas. The hearing is set for May 5.