Pontiac has recently been growing in population 🚀#LetsGoPontiac

This Friday! Don’t miss the Arts Crawl action in downtown Pontiac! 🎨🎶

Mikey’s on Telegraph is calling your name. Plus, they have this great ice cream sampler option now! 😍 #LetsGoPontiac

The Oakland County office tower renovation progress in our downtown, as seen at night. #LetsGoPontiac

Supervisor Barnett expressed the Lake Orion community’s deep gratitude for Pontiac & the Oakland County Water Resources team helping through this crisis.

Today I welcomed Mr. Sekkappan and Dr. Ramanathan from Pontiac’s Eternal Mother Hindu Temple on W. Kennett to City Hall. This May, we’re celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Month in Pontiac. #LetsGoPontiac

A little song by Nana for Gabriella ❤️

Spotted on Pontiac’s Eastside: a Charlie Harrison for Mayor bumper sticker, circa 1993. “Bringing Pontiac Together.”

Happy recent Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there! This is from when my mom and I went to a Mother-Son Dance. I was probably five or six.

Bob Floyd of Grosse Pointe Woods helping with a big cleanup at the Pontiac Silverdome on March 30, 1987. Wrestlemania III took place the day before. Oakland Press photo by Doug Bauman.

🌸 Pontiac 🌸 🌸 Happy 🌸 🌸 Mother’s 🌸 🌸 Day 🌸

Got my shades of pink for Pontiac’s ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and their scholarship event tonight 🩷💚

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Great meeting with Oakland Community Health Network CEO Dana Lasenby & COO Trisha Zizumbo today! #LetsGoPontiac

Congratulations to Christine Myers on her 10-year business milestone for Harold’s Italian Ice! #LetsGoPontiac

Good news! Volunteers donated the money to refurbish Pontiac’s Oak Hill Cemetery state historical marker and the restoration is now complete. #LetsGoPontiac

This week’s Arts Crawl! #PontiacArtsCrawl 🎶🎨🎉

Curiosities on display in the Main Street Pawn windows, downtown Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan. 2019.

Throwback to a Nana visit in 2019. #TBT

Throwback to when I painted fish onto the alleyway in downtown Pontiac. 2019. #TBT

This looks like it’ll be niceeee. On Telegraph Road across the street from Pontiac, this will be a positive development. I’ll always enjoy my childhood memories of Summit Place Mall, though.

Hanging with the crew that powers Brilliant Pontiac, a literacy & community hub at 135 Perkins Street! #LetsGoPontiac

From the Louis McGuinness comic book collection: Superboy #115. September 1964.

Saving this screenshot for comparison in future years, when the buildings are completed and roads reconnected. #LetsGoPontiac

Doing Mayor stuff. 📸 photo by ASante Lucas

Rest In Peace, Ms. Mary Treviño ❤️

The first of the new glass panels have been installed on Oakland County’s downtown tower. #LetsGoPontiac

Condolences to Pontiac’s former United States Senator Don Riegle, who served Michigan from 1977 to 1994. He has passed away at age 88. Here he is pictured at right with President Jimmy Carter in The White House in 1980, with signing of legislation supporting the automotive industry. AP photo.

Thank you to The Art Experience for inviting me to be their 30th Anniversary Gala’s emcee! #LetsGoPontiac

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From our friends at the Pontiac Transportation Museum:

This Pontiac Motorcycle Club artifact was circulating around the internet and was too good not to share. 🛞

❤️🎶 #PontiacArtsCrawl 🎶❤️

Didn’t expect this greeting! It was a first for me, for them to be up there this morning.

Happy, happy Earth Day birthday to THE James McQueen!

Pontiac Arts Crawl overview for this Friday! 😍🎨🎉 #PontiacArtsCrawl

Welcome home, Leticia Morris & family! Pontiac’s newest Habitat for Humanity home is now complete on Ferry Avenue — and Leticia helped build her own home! #LetsGoPontiac

Pontiac and Oakland County shaped the truck industry. 1911 ad for Rapid Truck, then “the largest commercial motor plant in the world.”

There’s quite a few friends with today as their birthday, but I do want to give a particular shout-out to April Ogg on her milestone birthday! 🚀🎉

Another new business open: Exotics Pontiac, one of the 3 new cannabis retailers now in our city, at 772 Cesar Chavez. The people asked “when will Pontiac finally have these dispensaries?” The answer is: Now. We’ve got them now. Happy 420 Day to those that partake and celebrate! #LetsGoPontiac

Beautiful (and historic) sculptures & ornamentation on display and for sale at Detroit Garden Works. Located in Oakland County’s city of Sylvan Lake, on Pontiac Drive.

“The end is now.” Graffiti inside the former McCarroll School in Pontiac, Michigan. Taken August 17, 2024. The school has since been demolished.

Gabriella appreciation post 🌻

Thank you to UWM team members who volunteered with Pontiac cleanup + beautification projects! #LetsGoPontiac

From our 2021 Summer Ice Cream Social, Rochester Hills resident Sigrid Grace displays her plein air painting of the Wisner Outhouse she painted at the event — with the outhouse behind her in the distance.

Happy birthday weekend to both my mother and my niece! Photo from fall 2022 — light years ago.

Pontiac, thank you for coming out and enjoying your downtown for this week’s Arts Crawl! Amazing turnout! 🦋

So much sidewalk chalk fun at this week’s Pontiac Arts Crawl! We love it. 😍 #PontiacArtsCrawl

🦋Take your picture with this beautiful butterfly quilted tapestry, inside 46 North Saginaw during the Pontiac Arts Crawl! #PontiacArtsCrawl

We’re at El Centro as we welcome the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to Pontiac! #VivaPontiac