Barb Pert Templeton

A local weekly newspaper in Macomb County gave Barb Pert

Templeton her start as a professional journalist. Bylines in the

Detroit Free Press, the Observer and Eccentric Newspapers and

several national publications followed, along with articles for Metro

Parent and Macomb Now magazines. But it was telling the stories

from the local small towns via The Voice and its sister paper, the

Macomb Daily, that captured her attention. Sharing a closer look at

the personalities of the county she grew up in has been interesting

and exciting, as she strives to find that story from the past that has

been overlooked up to now.