• MLK Day

    NORTHVILLIANS, With New Year’s Resolutions on our minds and many of us trying to achieve them, I will first take a look at their historic origins and traditions, and then we’ll move on to what’s happening this coming week … MLK Day, and review some of its history (local & nationally). RESOLUTIONS 2026Some quick facts: Despite some…

  • 2025 in Review

    NORTHVILLIANS, The year 2025 in Northville was, in a word, momentous.  As we roll into 2026, I again wish you all THE BEST that the New Year will bring and encourage you to engage in our community. Each of us has the same number of minutes to use each and every day (60 minutes an hour & 24 hours…

  • New Year

    NORTHVILLIANS, Happy New Year! This is the last Mayoral Newsletter of 2025. Going on 4 terms, I have had the great opportunity and honor to write over 300 of these letters. As we ready for New Year’s Eve, I understand that the traditional colors for ringing in the New Year include GOLD,SILVER & RED.  The color red historically represents bravery and fearlessness along with exuberance…

  • Christmas Celebrations

    NORTHVILLIANS, Today, I’m writing about past holiday Northville traditions. One of my grandfathers (the electrician in town) told stories about Henry Ford, and how he and wife Clara had their honeymoon here in the 1880’s and hosted Christmas square dances locally.  My other grandfather (the barber) spoke about touching up Henry’s hair on occasion, especially before…

  • Wreaths Across America & Cemetery Team Update

    NORTHVILLIANS, Over these pre-holiday weeks, I will continue to write about the work done by the Task Forces. This week I will touch on the Cemetery Restoration Team, who assisted in bringing to town this past weekend the Wreaths Across America program, which places holiday wreaths on the veterans’ final resting spots in Rural Hill Cemetery.  Wreaths…

  • Ford Field Update

    NORTHVILLIANS, Over these pre-holiday weeks, I will continue to write about the work done by the Task Forces (Ford Field, Farmers’ Market and the Cemetery Restoration Team, along with the Bicentennial Group).  We are so fortunate in the community to have close to 7% of our citizens engaged sharing their time and talents on Task…