Woodward 248: Watch for this blue Volkswagen bus
You might see him driving the streets of Royal Oak, Clawson, Ferndale, Berkley and Pleasant Ridge in his robin's egg blue Volkswagen Bus.
Brian Latulippe, 41, started his mobile bike repair service in 2020 and for the third summer, he'll spend four days a week driving around, offering tune-ups, repair services and building bikes right in customers' yards.
Latulippe began using a vintage Volkswagen bus and a set of tools to fix the old, neglected bikes of friends and family members.
“Then people posted on Facebook … and it just blew up,” he says.
That’s when Latulippe realized the demand for his service was almost limitless. He went on to fix 500 bikes in 2020 — and business continues to boom.
Read more about Latulippe's mobile bike repair business and why his wife says she eventually had to take over the business side of things.
Mask policy at Ferndale schools
Ferndale Public Schools reinstated face masks for students and staff starting Monday as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise and metro Detroit counties. Wayne, Oakland and Macomb, are in the high community level for the virus.
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The announcement about the mask mandate resuming appeared on the district's website in an effort "to keep our students and staff healthy and our schools open."
Home sales prices in Oakland County
The housing boom continues across metro Detroit.
Here in Oakland County, the median sales price for a single-family home in February was $270,000, up 3.9% from a year earlier. Prices have been rising for 21 consecutive months on a year-over-year basis. Some 627 houses were sold in February, down 42.9% from a year earlier.
In Oakland County, the top 10% of the properties sold had prices of at least $570,000, up 7.6% from a year before. Read more here.
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