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<strong>Email: </strong>Kevin.Elliott&#64;Patch.com<br><strong>Phone: </strong>(248) 421-8348<br><strong>Hometown: </strong>Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.<br><strong>Birthday: </strong>Nov. 15 

The first job I had was as a paperboy, delivering The Detroit News after school each day. The ink from the newsprint must have rubbed off the right way because nearly a quarter-century later I&#39;m still a newsie.

Among the dozens of jobs I held after high school and while working my way through college was as a shophand in Troy for a specialty automotive company called SLP Engineering (Street Legal Performance).

I first started writing news at Wayne State University after a professor encouraged me to write for The South End, the university&#39;s student newspaper. I became the paper&#39;s Feature Editor before working for a graphic design company doing part-time copyediting and writing.

After graduating from Wayne State, I was lucky enough to land a full-time job writing for The Spinal Column Newsweekly in Union Lake and learned to be a reporter. While there, I wrote about courts and cops; transportation and enviroment beats; city council, planning boards, and various municipal meetings; school boards; and general news about issues in the communities being covered. I also wrote for the paper&#39;s off-shoot magazine, Oakland Lakefront.

In 2004, I got swept away in a whirlwind and landed in Topeka, Kan., where (Dorothy, Toto and) I spent the next seven years starting a family. While there, I managed to earn an award for investigative journalism while covering the the police and court beats for The Manhattan Mercury, an afternoon daily in Manhattan, Kan. I later joined the newsroom at the state&#39;s capital city paper, The Topeka Capital-Journal, where I was hired as the evening police reporter and wrote breaking and community news, features, enterprise stories and a big ole lotta weather stories.

I returned to Michigan in February 2011 and was hired as the editor for Troy Patch in mid-May. I currently live in cozy (cramped) apartment with my wife and two young sons in Royal Oak, about a mile from Troy.

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No Action Taken on Troy Transit Center

Transit center discussion dominates marathon Troy City Council meeting; Troy Mayor explains her reason for altering the oath of office for herself and new council members.

No Action Taken on Troy Transit Center
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City Council to Study Troy Transit Center Project

A call for opposing viewpoints to the construction of an $8.4 million transit center to be built primarily with federal funding could stop the project in its tracks nearly a decade after its inception.

City Council to Study Troy Transit Center Project
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Sophomore Golf Ace Leads Athens Girls to Firsts for School

Girls named to first-time All-Academic All-State for Troy Athens, as teammate Jennifer Yang scores a spot on the first All-State athlete team after a strong showing at Division 1 State Finals and a win at The Meadows at Grand Valley State University.

Sophomore Golf Ace Leads Athens Girls to Firsts for School