Friday, January 25, 2013
Suspect to be held at Center for Forensic Psychiatry on $25,000 bond, the Daily Tribune reports.
A man accused of exposing himself to a Ferndale woman last August was found incompetent for trial on Thursday in 43rd District Court, according to an article in the Daily Tribune. Kurtis Collis, 23, is charged with aggravated indecent exposure - a two-year misdemeanor - after the Aug. 29, 2012 incident and is being held at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti on a $25,000 bond, the article states. He will be examined periodically to determine his competency to stand trial. According to the Daily Tribune, the man has been found not guilty of similar misdemeanor crimes in the past by reason of insanity. Read the full story here. Collis reportedly went to the woman's house on East Hazelhurst Aug. 29, 2012 and after he took multiple…
Monday, November 26, 2012
Council members voted Monday in support of seeking a formal recommendation from city staff on the project, which would be funded through an existing building fund.
Ferndale City Council members voted Monday night to direct city management to develop a formal recommendation on a possible $2 million project to renovate the city's district court and police station. The renovations would be paid for entirely through an existing building fund, which was set up by council 12 years ago and has put aside $20 from each ticket the court processes, 43rd District Court Judge Joseph Longo said during the meeting. "We are now at a point 12 years later where the numbers are high enough that I think the council might want to consider doing some improvements to the courthouse," Longo said. The court building on E. Nine Mile Road was originally a retail mattress factory outlet and was redesigned into a courthouse in …
The project would cost about $2 million and be paid for through a special building fund, the Daily Tribune reports.
Ferndale City Council tonight will consider a $2 million project to renovate the city's district court building and police station. Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday. You can view the full agenda here. The project, which would add 3,000 square feet to the 43rd District Court on E. Nine Mile Road and expand the police department by about 700 square feet into space on the first floor of City Hall, would be paid for through an existing building fund, according to an article in the Daily Tribune. “There are safety and structural issues at both buildings that far exceed even the obvious aesthetic problems the buildings have,” Ferndale Mayor Dave Coulter told the newspaper. “The key thing is we wouldn’t have to use any tax money because the …
Monday, March 19, 2012
Consolidation would have cost Ferndale an estimated $150K per year.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Judge Joseph Longo finds happiness and hope in Ferndale's 43rd District Court.
Joseph Longo has a collection of guitars lining his office floor, loves Italian food and holds a special place in heart for his vintage Jaguar. Just above his desk hangs a framed piece of an old dress shoe – a reminder of the effort he made to get elected as judge to Ferndale's 43rd District in 1998: “I knocked on every door in the three cities of my district and wore a hole in the sole of my shoe," Longo said, his chin held up with his right hand, his arm resting on the side of his chair. A graduate of the University of Detroit High School (in an accelerated three years), Longo was a star football player until his fifth knee surgery finally put that sport ambition to rest. Working as a janitor to pay his way through college, Longo …
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Violet Ikonomova
11:17 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Great article! more ›