Tag: Holidays

  • MLK Day and Resolutions

    NORTHVILLIANS, Last week, I welcomed in the 2024 New Year and mentioned it’s going to be a great year for the Ville. This week, after hearing many New Year’s resolutions, I will highlight some notable facts about this start-of-year tradition. I will then transition to what is happening this week for MLK DAY, both here and nationwide. First, however,…

  • New Year’s

    NORTHVILLIANS, Happy Pre-New Year! This is the last Mayoral Newsletter of 2023. New Year’s Eve colors traditionally include Gold, Silver and Red. The color red represents bravery and fearlessness along with having an exuberance of joyous optimism. I believe we are all optimistic about the future of our community. The year of 2023 was quite momentous, we will take…

  • Holidays

    NORTHVILLIANS, Today, I’m writing about past holiday traditions. One of my grandfathers (the electrician) told stories about Henry Ford, and how he and wife Clara hosted Christmas square dances in the Ville back in the late 1800’s.  My other grandfather (the barber) spoke about cutting Henry’s hair on occasion. Early in the 1900’s, electricity hit its…

  • Thanksgiving

    NORTHVILLIANS, It was great to see many of you at the Lighted Holiday Parade last weekend. Happily, the weather was outstanding and the parade memorable with folks 6 deep on either side of the newly opened street. The high school carolers got us ready to light up the community tree in Town Square before we…

  • Holiday Parade

    NORTHVILLIANS, As part of our Remembrances Series, this week’s topic will center around Northville’s Holiday Parade, which started officially in 1985 (38 years ago) … but know, Santa was driving his sleigh through town even a decade before that. Last week, we spoke about our Veterans Day activities, and I had the opportunity to spend…

  • Halloween

    NORTHVILLIANS, Over the past weeks, I’ve written about our Victorian Heritage Festival, NHS Homecomings, Cider Mills in the area and also recognized past student athletes inducted into the Hall of Fame. Halloween comes to NORTHVILLE – let’s take a look… 1908 – The Record reported that on Halloween night, some young pranksters took the front steps off…