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Fair Housing Survey

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Best Places to Live in Michigan

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Royal Oak Named Tree City USA

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Lockboxes Save Time & Money

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Insight Magazine

The Royal Oak Insight magazine is delivered to Royal Oak residents quarterly and provides activities for you and your family to enjoy.

Read current and past issues online at: https://www.romi.gov/440/Recreation

Outstanding Customer Service Award

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Live Music Thursdays return for the summer in downtown Royal Oak

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Royal Oak to implement on-street handicapped parking

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Which Cities Are Best To Open A Successful Craft Brewery?

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Hermann's Bakery serving up sweets for decades in Royal Oak

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Royal Oak Makes list of top 25 cities with the most breweries per capita

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Why Royal Oak, Michigan Is One of the Coolest Suburbs in America

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Royal Oak Brewery Will Temporarily Close for $200K Renovation

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Royal Oak Offers Free Pedicab Service Downtown

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Bar Louie Opens As One Of Downtown Royal Oak's Newest Restaurants

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A Coffee and Ice Cream Shop Is Filling the Former Gayle’s Chocolates Building

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LFG now open and Bowlero Lanes opening soon in Royal Oak

A new taco shop is headed to downtown Royal Oak

Royal Oak third in region for residential construction

Royal Oak #2 in list of best Michigan cities to live in 2019

Royal Oak property sat empty for decades. Here's why — and what's moving in.

Oakland County reports over $185 million worth of investment projects in 2019

The $70 million Henry Ford Health Systems project in Royal Oak represents the largest investment project in Oakland County through the first four months of 2019.

Metals in Time: "Downtown is where we want to be"

Pinky's Rooftop opens in downtown Royal Oak

Beaumont to build outpatient surgery center across from Royal Oak hospital campus

Bar Louie Opens As One Of Downtown Royal Oak's Newest Restaurants

Royal Oak's first Panera Bread coming to Woodward Corners

Royal Oak getting two-story, 6,000-square-foot coffeehouse with kids' playscape

Motor City Gas named one of the top 10 whiskey bars in the U.S. by Yelp

'Smart home' features, mechanical car lift among amenities set for luxury Royal Oak apartments

New shops, restaurants, coming to Royal Oak

Royal Oak logistics firm wins state help to expand, create 500 jobs

John Almon Starr house sold to local financial planning group

Beaumont to open urgent care in Royal Oak shopping center

Meijer grocery store, hotel, smokehouse set for Beaumont's Royal Oak development on Woodward

Automated parking deck, raft of mixed-use redevelopments proposed in Royal Oak

Royal Oak gas stations go upscale

New restaurants, shops coming, going in Oakland County

Royal Oak breaks ground on City Hall construction

A Peek into Pinky’s, Royal Oak’s Next Rooftop Bar

Howard & Howard evolves from single ex-farmer to 160-lawyer team

Hotels are booming in Royal Oak and southeast Oakland County

Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle celebrates 40 years of laughs

Residents weigh in on future park

Pinky's Rooftop targets spring opening in Royal Oak

Condado Tacos to open in downtown Royal Oak

Royal Oak whiskey distillery awarded ‘Spirit of Main Street’ grant

OCC unveils campus expansion plans for downtown Royal Oak

Toyology sells toys meant to educate, entertain

Beaumont in Royal Oak building new heart center with $5M donation

New in downtown Royal Oak: Handmade brittle, a place to boost math skills

Motor City Gas named one of the 25 best distilleries by Travel and Leisure magazine

Royal Oak-based Ambassador acquired by Apollo Global-owned company

Roak Brewing Co. to acquire Right Brain Brewery

Buddy's Pizza opening at the Detroit Zoo this week

Henry Ford outpatient center to fill office tower development in Royal Oak

Bastone Brewery wins medal at 2018 Great American Beer Festival

Booming online sales allow candy maker to open a new shop in Royal Oak

Cello brings Italian cuisine to downtown Royal Oak

Royal Oak-based PIXO VR and Silicon Valley’s HP Partner on New Virtual Reality Training for Business

Gongos goes for centralization, urban energy in move to Royal Oak

Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak is second statewide in U.S. News rankings

Bowlero Lanes to return to mid-century glory

2 Royal Oak restaurants transforming concepts

First Episode of Royal Oak Chamber TV Has Hit The Airwaves

Royal Oak Poised for a Downtown Building Boom

Ambassador Named "Coolest Places to Work" by Crain's Detroit

Beaumont moving forward on Royal Oak shopping center

Royal Oak DDA in talks for apartment, retail development at Main St. and I-696

Former Citizens Bank building in downtown Royal Oak planned for demolition, mixed-use development

Bistro 82 owner to bring roadhouse-style restaurant to Royal Oak

Cambridge Consulting to Move to Downtown Royal Oak from Troy

Study lists several Oakland County cities among ‘safest’ in Michigan

$15 million Harrison Residences redevelopment brings 75 units close to downtown Royal Oak

Detroit Tigers Corporate Insider Program

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New Circulating Technology Devices

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Michigan Activity Pass

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Introducing Creativebug - Our New Online Resource

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ROPL Homebound Service

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Homeschoolers Welcome!

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New Special Ticket Offers from 313 Presents, the Detroit Red Wings and Emagine Theaters

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2019 Royal Oak Area Preschool and Child Care Directory

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Where To Go For a Helping Hand 2019

Each year the Royal Oak Public Library compiles a list of places that can provide assistance for the following: temporary day and overnight shelter; groceries; meals; clothing; referrals; transportation; and housing.

Helping Hand 2019 (PDF)

Seniors Tuesdays

Use your Senior Tuesdays discount card on Tuesdays before 6 p.m. at the following downtown Royal Oak restaurants and enjoy a 20 percent discount:*

Community Centers

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Tim's Kitchen

Click here to find out what's cooking at the Mahany/Meininger Senior Center.

Need a Ride?

Need a Ride? Service is available: 9:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Monday - Friday. Call dispatch number at 248-246-3914 between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., up to two weeks ahead, to schedule your appointment.

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