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ROYAL OAK — Improvements are to be made at Dickinson Park
Turning Point President and CEO Sharman Davenport stands at the 2021 event with Stepping after the City Commission gave unanimous approval to Out a proposal from File photo provided by the Verner family with EvrodDepartment Cassimy, of WDIV-TV. theemcee Recreation Jan. 22. From renaming the high school’s gymnasium floor to starting a scholarship in herthe Stars
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CLAWSON — Feb. 13 will mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Michigan State University that took the life of Alexandria Verner, and her family and the Clawson community still feel her loss deeply a year later. The tragic death of Verner hurts, but the city and her family are doing their best to remember her and carry on her memory and legacy. Verner’s father, Ted Verner, said the family has been doing its best to settle into what he called the “new norm.” “The new norm is the realization that Al is not with us,” he said. “Every time you feel that you’ve got into a rhythm or that you’re back into kind of a normal state that you don’t have this cloud hanging over you, a memory, a picture, a song, you know, some type of thing brings it all back.” Ted Verner said a number of things remind him of his daughter, even a sunrise or sunset or the wind blowing, but the hardest thing is when he goes on social media and gets automated memories from
Improvements will be made to the basketball court at Dickinson park, seen here this past weekend.