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Birmingham firefighters open station doors Oct. 10
The Birmingham Fire Department holds its annual open house at Fire Station 1 on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m., with hands-on demonstrations, free food and family activities.
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The Birmingham Fire Department holds its annual open house at Fire Station 1 on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m., with hands-on demonstrations, free food and family activities.

Community
Birmingham Village Players opens its 104th season Friday, Sept. 18, with the Tony Award-winning musical "Once On This Island," running through Oct. 4 at 34660 Woodward Ave. with $30 tickets.

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Bloomfield Township's free annual Open House returns Sunday, Sept. 27, with all 11 departments offering activities, a noon fire demonstration, a charity dunk tank benefiting Special Olympics and live performances at the township campus on Telegraph Road.

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Actor and Seaholm High School graduate Tim Allen has pledged to match up to $100,000 in donations to the City of Birmingham Community House Foundation before Dec. 31, but the foundation has raised just $21,125 so far toward that threshold.

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Prospero Dagbovie, who taught French at Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills for 41 years, died Aug. 24 after a battle with Parkinson's disease; the school community plans a remembrance at a future Reunion Weekend.

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Bloomfield Hills High School Theatre will present three performances of "Hadestown Teen Edition" Nov. 12-14, bringing the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical to a local stage with teen actors.

Community
Amy Beeler leads a free artist talk Thursday evening at the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center, one of the last chances to experience her textile exhibition "Domestic Lines: Quiet Rituals" before it closes Sept. 17.

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Franklin Cider Mill opened its 189th season Sept. 5 and runs daily through Nov. 29, offering fresh-pressed cider, doughnuts from an old German recipe and weekend jazz at 7450 Franklin Road.

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Michigan renters and homeowners have until Sept. 30 to claim the Home Heating Tax Credit, which averaged $171 last year; the credit cannot be filed retroactively after the deadline.

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The Franklin Community Association's 81st Annual Labor Day Round Up brings a parade, midway games, art fair and more to FCA Park on Monday, Sept. 7, with free admission and $2 activity tickets.

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Character actor Matthew Kimbrough, a 1970 Cranbrook Kingswood graduate known for roles in American Beauty and Mad Men, returned to campus and burst into song upon seeing the newly restored Eliel Saarinen-designed Dining Hall.

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Interior designer Young Lee Huh, a 1987 Cranbrook Kingswood graduate and four-time Architectural Digest AD100 designer, returns to Kingswood Library on Monday, Sept. 14, for a free talk about her debut book, A Mood, A Thought, A Feeling: Interiors.
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