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Troy High boys soccer won its district, beating Birmingham Seaholm in the final on Wednesday, Oct. 21 (the Locals Thrive game list has 4-2 at Troy, MaxPreps 2-1 at Seaholm), and has not lost this season. In the district Monday, Oct. 19, the game list has a 4-1 Troy win over Royal Oak and MaxPreps a 4-4 tie. Troy plays Warren Cousino Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7:45 p.m. Troy went 13-0-2 in the regular season and won the OAA Red title, coach Adam Spinks said. Spinks said Connor Hotts had 14 goals and 12 assists in the regular season, and named Cole Cusmano (a two-year captain) and Mateo Coronado (a one-year captain).

Troy High School volleyball won the OAA-White title Thursday, Oct. 15, beating Troy Athens 3-2 at Athens after trailing 14-11 in the fifth set and scoring the last five points, coach Scott Germansky said. A year earlier, Troy won one best-of-five match, according to MaxPreps. This season it beat all eight of its OAA-White opponents, is 13-15 overall and 10-0 in best-of-five matches, with every loss in tournament play. The coach singled out seniors Kyleigh Peacock, Maya Colon, Lyla Gorny, Megan Hom and Maia Abbott and junior Maci Zeiter. Troy hosts Livonia Franklin on senior night Thursday, Oct. 22, and a quad with Orchard Lake St Mary's, Rochester Adams and Lakeland Tuesday, Oct. 27. MHSAA District 29 opens at Troy Monday, Nov. 2, Germansky said.

Athens volleyball is 18-10 with two regular-season matches left: at Orchard Lake St Mary's Tuesday, Oct. 20, and home against West Bloomfield Wednesday, Oct. 28. Athens coach Kennedy Paulina says Athens will host its district tournament and is looking for its first district title in 10 years; Troy High coach Scott Germansky said districts start Monday, Nov. 2, at Troy. Senior middle blocker Erica Slade is hitting .210 and junior setter Bella Sivuchin has 471 assists.

Corewell Health plans to outsource emergency room staffing at its Troy hospital, which a Deadline Detroit column describes as Michigan's second-busiest ER with more than 106,000 visits a year, to TeamHealth, a private-equity-backed firm. Turtle Woods, a 70-acre former Troy School District nature property, could open as Troy's first county park in fall 2027, with development estimated at nearly $2.9 million, C&G Newspapers reported. Authorities seized 19 of 22 firearms registered to Peter Hamilton Northup, charged with aggravated hate crime after threats outside the Troy Public Library; his review hearing is Thursday, Dec. 3. No Kings demonstrators rallied in Troy Saturday, Oct. 17, urging early voting before the Nov. 3 election. The week is dry, with highs from 60 Sunday, Oct. 18, to 67 Tuesday, Oct. 20. Comments are open below.

Troy beat Athens 3-2 in volleyball Thursday, Oct. 15, and leads the OAA White at 5-1; Athens is second at 5-2. In football Friday, Oct. 16, Troy won 38-6 at Pontiac and Athens won 35-0 at Auburn Hills Avondale. Athens lost 1-0 at Royal Oak in boys soccer Thursday, Oct. 15. This week's Games of the Week are Royal Oak at Troy in boys soccer Monday, Oct. 19, with Troy unbeaten at 13-0-2, and Livonia Franklin at Troy in volleyball Thursday, Oct. 22. Troy hosts Waterford Mott and Athens hosts Berkley in football Friday, Oct. 23.

Troy High football plays at Pontiac Friday, Oct. 16; @troycoltsathletics posted a 6 p.m. kickoff, while the MHSAA schedule lists 7 p.m. Golden Giving Volunteering Club posted that it will have a trunk at the Chaldean American Ladies of Charity Trunk or Treat Friday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. Also posted: Mitten Morning Coffee Co. at the Oct. 25 Tailgate Bash, and Troy High volleyball's send-off for its seniors. The week's news, city events and school sports run in separate editions.

The Troy Police Department holds its free, family Safety Bash Thursday, Oct. 22, 5-8 p.m., with advance Eventbrite registration required for trick-or-treating children. Troy Historic Village's Trick-or-Treat: Under the Sea runs Friday, Oct. 23, 5-8 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at $9 in advance, $5 for members. The Village's Thursday Talks covers 19th-century utopian societies Thursday, Oct. 15, and its Preservation Conversations takes up Saline's Davenport-Curtiss House Monday, Oct. 19; that listing names the Village as the location while its description says the series meets at preservation sites. Nature Explorers: Fall Colors runs Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Stage Nature Center for $10. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets Tuesday, Oct. 20, and the Downtown Development Authority and Traffic Committee Wednesday, Oct. 21; the feed's late-night times for the TSD Board of Education and a OneTroy community conversation are not confirmed. The week's news and school sports run in separate editions.

Troy's boys soccer team, 13-0-2, beat Brownstown Woodhaven 7-0 Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Lake Orion 3-0 the day before. In football Friday, Oct. 9, Rochester beat Athens 34-14 and Bloomfield Hills beat Troy 54-28; neither school has a football game in the week covered here. Athens and Troy, tied atop the OAA White volleyball table at 4-1, meet Thursday, Oct. 15, at Athens, this week's Game of the Week. Athens's soccer game at Royal Oak is listed on two dates, Oct. 14 and Oct. 15, and its swim team is listed at home against Harper Woods and at Fraser at the same hour Thursday; neither conflict is resolved.

Troy City Council voted 6-0 on Monday, Oct. 5, to end the city's 2023 volunteer firefighter incentive plan on Dec. 31 and replace it on Jan. 1, 2027, with a plan that pays volunteers annually instead of in five- and 10-year lump sums, a change 91% of responding firefighters asked for in a November 2025 survey; firefighters still active at year-end will be fully vested in their current-plan balances, and no one spoke at the public hearing. Council also waived bidding to hire Troy-based Empco, Inc. for an estimated $14,703 to run promotional testing for a staff lieutenant position left open by the death of Staff Lt. Charles Noonan, and approved a nine-item consent agenda that included a $369,167.57 winter maintenance agreement with the Road Commission for Oakland County, water tap/connection fee increases of 12% to 56% effective Nov. 1, the city's 2026 Transportation Asset Management Plan, and improvement agreements for the Troy North Trail and Golden Villas developments. Public Works Director Kurt Bovensiep announced a 24/7 food scrap drop-off at the DPW, 4693 Rochester Road, with curbside pickup a goal for 2027, and resident Jason Schwab again spoke against the city's Flock license plate reader cameras, citing a recent federal ruling in Oklahoma. Council Member Annalisa Bluhm was excused; council next meets Oct. 26.

Troy's police and fire departments face off at the 2nd Annual Battle of the Badges Friday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m. at Flynn Park. The city's free Family Fall Fest runs 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10; the city calendar listing gives the Troy Community Center, 3179 Livernois, while the city's Fall Fest page gives Stine Community Park, 241 Town Center, with the community center as the bad-weather site. The Troy Historic Village's cemetery tour runs the same day at Crooks Road Cemetery, and its Village Crafting Circle and Constitution Cafe run Sunday, Oct. 11. The Planning Commission and Brownfield Redevelopment Authority meet Tuesday, Oct. 13, at City Hall, and Red Cross blood drives run Friday, Oct. 9, and Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the Troy Community Center. Troy schools hold half-day conferences Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8-9. The library hosts author talks Thursday, Oct. 8, and Tuesday, Oct. 13, two escape rooms Friday, Oct. 9, and Halloween programs through Thursday, Oct. 15, and a Tom Petty tribute plays the community center Wednesday, Oct. 14. Troy and Athens school games, and last week's results, run in a separate Troy High School Sports edition.

Troy police quoted a $53,491.30 fee and 90 business days to release records on its Flock license-plate cameras, Troy Thrive's own records request found; redaction is 99.7% of the bill, and the only written justification is "this is more than the usual amount." Nyrobi Jenkins and Mekhi Carter, both 23, were arraigned Oct. 1 on mail-theft charges in package thefts at Somerset Park Apartments, after police used Flock readers to identify a vehicle. Police stopped a 31-year-old Troy man at 108 mph in a 40 mph zone Sept. 22; FOX 2 gives his breath test as 0.203%, ClickOnDetroit as .202%. Robert Isho, 34, faces a preliminary exam Tuesday, Oct. 13, in a May crash in Bloomfield Township that killed Obrian Nelson, 30. Regionally, the Wayne County Commission overrode a veto of tax breaks for Google's Van Buren Township data center. Rain falls Tuesday, Oct. 13, and highs drop to 51 by Saturday, Oct. 17. Comments are open below.

Athens football beat Bloomfield Hills 53-14 Friday, Oct. 2, and Lake Orion beat Troy 49-7. Both play on the road Friday, Oct. 9, Troy at Bloomfield Hills and Athens at Rochester, this week's Games of the Week. Troy boys soccer won 1-0 at Rochester Hills Stoney Creek and Athens lost 2-1 to Rochester, both Thursday, Oct. 1. Athens volleyball won all three matches it played; Troy won three of four, losing 2-0 at Macomb Dakota Saturday, Sept. 26. Troy's and Athens's schedules put their cross country dual on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Firefighter's Park, where MHSAA's lists Monday, Oct. 5. Both schools send golfers to the MHSAA regional at Greystone Wednesday, Oct. 7, and both host boys tennis regionals Thursday, Oct. 8.

Troy City Council meets Monday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 500 W. Big Beaver Road. The Troy Fire Department holds its annual open house Sunday, Oct. 4, 1-4 p.m., at all six stations for National Fire Prevention Week. The library runs teen programs, an author talk with Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo Thursday, Oct. 8, and two escape rooms Friday, Oct. 9; the Troy Nature Society runs Photo Walks Saturday, Oct. 3, and Owl Encounters Friday, Oct. 9. Red Cross blood drives run Tuesday, Oct. 6, and Friday, Oct. 9, at the Troy Community Center, and Troy schools hold half-day conferences Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8-9. The police and fire departments face off at the Battle of the Badges Friday, Oct. 9, at Flynn Park. The city's free Family Fall Fest is listed for Saturday, Oct. 10, though the event map on the city's recreation page gives Oct. 12; the Troy Historic Village's cemetery tour runs Saturday, Oct. 10, at Crooks Road Cemetery. Troy and Athens school games, and last week's results, run in a separate Troy High School Sports edition.

The Troy Police Department says it will cost $53,491.30 and take 90 business days to release records about the city's Flock Safety license plate cameras — and 99.7 percent of that figure is redaction labor, 71,144 minutes of it, on a form that also says every responsive record can be located in 30 minutes. Michigan law lets a city charge that labor only if not charging would cause unreasonably high costs given the nature of the request; Troy's written justification, entered twice, is seven words: "this is more than the usual amount." The form leaves the hourly wage blank, never rules on the public-interest fee waiver, and never records the date the request arrived. Three days earlier, the City Clerk's office had priced the same category of labor at $32.71 an hour — a third less than Police Records — and had twice told me that learning which part of a request drives its cost requires filing another request.

A federal civil forfeiture complaint filed Sept. 22 seeks about $18.79 million in bank funds, cash and precious metals tied to Quality Behavioral Health and its owner, Naveed Syed, including $109,812 and $122,194 in cash seized from two Troy residences; the government alleges the substance-use recovery nonprofit billed Medicaid for treatment it did not provide and required Medicaid beneficiaries to work 12-hour days under $40-a-week "volunteer" agreements. Syed has not been criminally charged, and his attorney, Arthur Weiss, said the case will be litigated in court. Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital presented concept plans Sept. 22 for a 188-foot inpatient tower with 180 private-room beds and a garage of about 400 spaces beside its Emergency Center; the applicant described the tower as about 10 stories with its penthouse while the city's memo calls it 8, and the Planning Commission took no action ahead of a likely public hearing. Troy High named 1994 graduate Aaron Smith its boys basketball coach, succeeding Gary Fralick, after 15 years as Troy's JV coach and 11 seasons as Royal Oak's head coach. Ian Matthew Johnson, 21, of Auburn Hills, was sentenced Sept. 18 to 141 days in jail, with credit for 141 days served, and five years' probation after pleading no contest to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in an April case at a Troy Michaels store. Regionally, the Archdiocese of Detroit confirmed that most of its 483 priests will move to new parishes under its restructuring, effective July 1, 2027. Highs reach 79 Tuesday, Sept. 29, before rain arrives Wednesday; Friday, Oct. 2, could bring 2.22 inches. Comments are open below.

Troy's boys soccer team, 10-0-1 and winner of its last four, hosts Birmingham Seaholm, 9-1-1, Tuesday, Sept. 29, the two best overall records in the OAA Red; Troy's feed gives a 7 p.m. start and MHSAA's schedule 7:15. Both football teams are home Friday, Oct. 2, Troy against Lake Orion and Athens against Bloomfield Hills, after both lost last Friday: Troy 3-37 at Rochester and Athens 10-49 to Stoney Creek. Troy also won 3-0 at Berkley and 2-1 at Royal Oak in soccer and beat Waterford Kettering 3-0 in volleyball; Athens beat Clarkston 3-2 in soccer and lost 2-3 to Detroit Western. Saturday, Oct. 3, brings the Oakland County cross country meet, which Athens's feed places at Kensington Metropark and Troy's at Stoney Creek Metropark, and the county swimming and diving meets.

Troy City Council meets Monday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 500 W. Big Beaver Road, and a Red Cross blood drive runs at 10 a.m. that day at the Troy Community Center. Saturday, Sept. 26, brings the Troy Historic Village's Handcrafted: A Traditional Trades and Crafts Fair, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Troy Public Library's Bookmobile Birthday Bash at Raintree Park, 2-4 p.m., and The Great Eastern Sun and a Candlelight Sound Bath at CenterPeace Healing and Events Center. The Troy Farmers Market runs Wednesday, Sept. 30, 3-7 p.m. at Stine Community Park, the last date in its listed June 10-Sept. 30 season. At the library: the Detroit History Club's Nain Rouge talk Tuesday, Sept. 29, a Culture Series Oktoberfest Wednesday, Sept. 30, a FAFSA workshop and an author talk with Veronica Roth Thursday, Oct. 1, and Pumpkins with Character! Saturday, Oct. 3, when the Troy Nature Society also leads Photo Walks at the Stage Nature Center. Troy and Athens school games run in a separate Troy High School Sports edition. Around Metro Detroit: the Cash Money & No Limit Tour Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25-26, Michigan-Iowa Saturday, Sept. 26, Lions-Jets Sunday, Sept. 27, at 1 p.m., the Tigers' AL Wild Card home games Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 29-30, Doja Cat Oct. 1 and Dan + Shay at Pine Knob Oct. 3.

Corewell Health presented plans at the Troy Planning Commission's Sept. 22 meeting for three new pieces on the Troy side of its Beaumont Troy Hospital campus at 44201 Dequindre Road. They are a 188-foot inpatient tower of about 335,394 sq. ft., a roughly 400-space parking garage beside the Emergency Center, and room for a future building of up to 204 feet and 574,200 sq. ft. The project needs a rezoning from Community Facilities, which caps buildings at two stories and 25 feet, to a Planned Unit Development, an approach city staff and the planning consultant support. Corewell said the hospital is out of inpatient beds and that the garage would cut the walk from emergency parking from more than 350 feet up a steep ramp to about 50 feet; tower completion is planned for 2030. The commission took no vote because the meeting was a concept review for feedback. Commissioners questioned the need for 400 more parking spaces, suggested larger emergency signs on Dequindre, raised traffic and security concerns, and discussed whether the future building should be approved now or later. No one from the public spoke, the agenda and Sept. 8 minutes passed 8–0, and Chair Marianna Perakis disclosed that her husband works for Corewell at the Troy campus. Corewell will revise its plan for a public hearing before the Planning Commission, which will make a recommendation to City Council.

Athens beat Troy 35-0 in last week's rivalry football game, and the two schools tied 1-1 in boys soccer three days earlier. Troy also beat Birmingham Seaholm and West Bloomfield in volleyball but lost to Hartland, and beat Romeo Summit Homeschoolers 7-2 in soccer while Athens lost to Rochester Adams 2-4. In season standings, Troy and Athens hold the top two spots in Oakland Activities Association-Red boys soccer, Troy unbeaten at 7-0-1 overall; both sit at the foot of OAA-White football at 0-3. This week brings no Troy-Athens rematch: both play football Friday night, Troy at Rochester and Athens home against Stoney Creek for homecoming, and Thursday is the schedule's busiest day, with volleyball, soccer, swimming and tennis all in action. Athens and Troy enter Wednesday's girls golf meet at Fieldstone Golf Club under different names and different start information, which is not resolved here.

Peter Hamilton Northup, 79, of Troy, was charged Sept. 14 with four counts of aggravated hate crime after authorities said he threatened four Muslim men who were offering free Quran translations outside the Troy Public Library; Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said Northup was carrying a loaded pistol when arrested, has dementia and a history of welfare checks, and that police recovered 19 of his 22 registered firearms under an Extreme Risk Protection Order. A fire at Troy Villa, 2100 Stephenson Highway, claimed a life the morning of Sept. 3 and remains under investigation by the Troy Fire and Police departments; Troy Fire Lt. Keith Young said the origin and cause are still undetermined. The Troy City Council voted unanimously Aug. 31 to approve a Troy Public Library technology center redesign, estimated at nearly $317,770 plus a 15% contingency, and six new self-checkout machines at $54,048, with Councilmember David Hamilton backing the spending while continuing to push for a new library building. Troy Daze, the city's community festival, closes out noon to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Troy Civic Center. And Trevor Robertson, a Brooklyn bassist who grew up in Troy, released his debut jazz album "Bright Colors" in August, a tribute to a former partner who died six years ago. Regionally, the Michigan Supreme Court sent Ethan Crumbley's life sentence back to the Court of Appeals for review of ineffective-counsel and sentencing claims. Rain opens the week before highs climb to 75 by Saturday. Comments are open below.