candgnews.com JUNE 28, 2023 Vol. 21, No. 15
Birmingham opens new pickleball courts
The pickleball community now has access to courts at Crestview Park in Birmingham. All are welcome, but residents can make reservations. Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
BY MARY GENSON mgenson@candgnews.com
BIRMINGHAM — Crestview Park in Birmingham is now home to pickleball courts for the community to enjoy. These facilities have been a topic for discussion and highly requested by the community since around 2018, officials said. “We have award-winning parks in the city, and it’s nice to be able to add pickleball to a wide array of activities that people can get out and enjoy,” Communications Director Marianne Gamboa said. According to the USA Pickleball website, the rules of the game were created near Seattle by three men in 1965. It all started on a slow Saturday, when two of the men decided to volley a perforated plastic ball over a badminton net with pingpong paddles. Once they began creating the rules, their goal was to create
BY MARK VEST AND MARY GENSON mvest@candgnews.com, mgenson@candgnews.com
OAKLAND COUNTY — Last November, local residents approved the Oakland County Public Transportation Millage, which authorized the county to levy a millage for the purpose of funding transportation services throughout Oakland County. Before the millage passed, each community in Oakland County could decide if it wanted to opt in or opt out of the public transportation system. But with voters approving the millage, each community in Oakland County is now required to opt in. Residents in communities that opted in prior to the millage passing paid 1 mill in taxes for public transportation services. With the millage having passed, those residents will now pay into a 0.95 mill collection, which is 95 cents for every $1,000 of taxable value of a home, for 10 years. See TRANSIT on page 10A
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