By Max Reinhart, The Detroit News

The West Bloomfield School District has been cleared to raze a beloved century-old former elementary school after the Michigan Court of Appeals on Thursday dissolved an order suspending the demolition.

A conservation group called Heart of the Lakes had argued the West Bloomfield school board violated the Open Meetings Act by failing to publicly deliberate other options for the former Roosevelt Elementary School building, located on Cass Lake Road in Keego Harbor, and instead “rubber stamped” a plan for demolition.

But the three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals noted in its 13-page unanimous decision that two board members urged the rest of the board during its March 18, 2024, meeting to reconsider demolition before the board approved project bids by

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