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Also on today's calendar: Magic Bag Presents: The Impossibles and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What is the longest word in the dictionary? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Football preview: 2026 Oakland Activities Association team capsules (theoaklandpress.com) — Ferndale Eagles football is favored to repeat as OAA Gold champions after coach Donovan Jackson's culture shift and a strong senior core led by CMU commit Carl Tramble. The preview also breaks down every OAA division rival, highlighting key returners, strengths, and the pivotal Royal Oak matchup that could decide the Gold race.
2. Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus enrolled 1 American Indian student in 2024-25 (seoaklandnews.com) — Families with children at Ferndale Lower Elementary can see how enrollment is changing, including just one American Indian student among 517 kids for 2024–25. The school, part of Ferndale Public Schools, reflects broader state funding increases that support free meals, pre-K, and community college across Michigan.
3. Back to school in Michigan: 5 things parents need to know (bridgedetroit.com) — Ferndale parents face new school-year rules limiting student cellphone use during class, with high schoolers required to stash phones in lock boxes except at lunch or outside school hours. Statewide changes also bring mandatory fitness testing in P.E., removal of the SAT essay requirement, expanded team teaching, and new public reporting on K‑5 literacy training.
4. Deer Camp Coffee Roasting Wins Metro Detroit's Best Coffee Award (wrif.com) — Ferndale's own Balam Coffee & Wine earned a top‑five spot in a Metro Detroit "Vote 4 The Best" coffee contest, putting the city on the regional coffee map. Sterling Heights shops took first and fourth, but more than 163,000 votes showed strong support for independent cafés across the area.
5. Sterling Heights sets Flock vote for second meeting in October (macombdaily.com) — Sterling Heights is fast-tracking a decisive October vote on whether to keep or cancel its Flock license-plate camera system, amid privacy concerns and policing debates. Ferndale is among several nearby communities that have already ended their Flock contracts, signaling a broader regional rethink of this surveillance technology.
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