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MACOMB COUNTY — The seventh annual Ride 4 Recovery bike trek will take place Sunday, Sept. 29, on the Macomb Orchard Trail in Richmond. The event is put on by CARE of Southeastern Michigan, which is based in Fraser. It’s the second year that Richmond is hosting the event, where riders and attendees can bask…

In April 2018, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams M.D. issued a public health advisory urging more Americans to carry and learn to use naloxone. Sold under the brand name Narcan, naloxone is a medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose. Read More

ANCHOR BAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES: Anchor Bay High School presented diplomas to approximately 470 seniors on June 2. Excited to venture into the world, their class color is blue, the class flower is a white rose, the class song is “Wherever I Go” by Miley Cyrus and the motto is “The future belongs to those…

STERLING HEIGHTS — Anti-drug activist Mark Kilgore knows the statistics prove that opioid abuse and overdose deaths have skyrocketed over the past two decades in Michigan. In 1999, the state had 99 opioid overdose deaths; in 2016, there were 1,731, he said. “It’s higher than that now,” he said. “So to me, that shows this…