Karen Lambert is the primary reporter covering the City of Milan for The Sun Times News. Her work focuses on local government, community developments, and issues important to Milan residents, providing clear and accessible reporting on city matters.
For decades, the flowers welcoming visitors to Milan, the murals celebrating the city’s history and even the town’s unusual crooked trees shared something in common—the work of dedicated volunteers. At the April 21 Milan City Council meeting, three women who spent a combined 41 years on the Beautification Commission were honored for helping transform the ...
Milan officials have proposed a roughly $7.1 million general fund budget for fiscal year 2027, a 1% increase from the current year, as rising health insurance costs and inflation continue to strain city finances. The proposal would require the city to draw just over $300,000 from its fund balance amid an expected 3% decline in ...
At Michigan’s state robotics competition April 15-18 in Saginaw, the state’s top 160 robotics teams competed for a chance to attend the FIRST World Championship in Texas. Among those competing were Saline’s Singularity, Dexter’s Dreadbots, Chelsea’s Technical Difficulties and Milan’s Code Red Robotics: First Responders. Each qualified from amongst 531 high school teams statewide.
Longtime Saline Township resident Nancy Aseltine has been spending her Fridays creating art alongside her husband and University of Michigan students at the Brecon Village Memory Care Unit. Aseltine recently moved from her Saline township home of 30 years into a condo in Saline city near Brecon. She visits often, ensuring her husband, Richard, stays ...
Milan City and Milan Seniors for Healthy Living agreed to terms for a one-year lease at a 90-minute meeting Thursday April 16. “We’re actually drawing up the lease right now and then both parties will vote on it,” MSHL Board President James Giordani said Friday. Mayor Ed Kolar confirmed terms were negotiated, but not ratified, ...
Milan City is proposing water and garbage rate increases for the next fiscal year, while keeping the rates for sewer the same. In a presentation to the council on April 7, City Manager Jim Lancaster recommended raising water rates to $5.84 from $5.22 per unit each month. A unit equals 1,000 gallons of water. Sewer ...
Just a day after creating a senior advisory committee at its April 7 meeting—while saying lease negotiations with Milan Seniors for Healthy Living (MSHL) were ongoing—Milan City Attorney Steve Mann told MSHL attorney the city “will not entertain any material changes to the lease.” Milan City sent a lease proposal March 11. MSHL returned it ...
Yard waste pickup is back in Chelsea, Dexter, Milan and Saline, with seasonal collection services starting this month. Here are the details for each community.
Starting April 11, Washtenaw County residents can safely dispose of hazardous household items – from batteries and light bulbs to pesticides and mercury thermostats — at the Home Toxics Center in Scio Township on select Saturdays. The program is part of a county effort to keep harmful materials out of landfills and waterways. Collections run ...
Milan Middle School students showed their school spirit Friday – by staying quiet. At the school’s first-ever Silent Assembly, about 500 students entered the gym, sometimes holding up their fingers to their mouths and signaling “sh,” while other students held signs reminding others to stay quiet. The loudest sound was the stomping of feet as ...
Beneath the grass and forest of the Woodlawn Cemetery, Washtenaw County’s only documented black cemetery, are the remains of the families of surrounding residents, including former WWI, WWII, and Korean War Veterans. From a distance the cemetery looks more like a field, a wetland and a forest, but a few graves dot the grass, revealed ...
Music on the porch in May, a Shakespeare play in August, and a community talent show in January, are among the visions of a new nonprofit, the Milan Arts Project. A group of singers, song writers, performers, writers, plus culinary and visual artists have been meeting since November 2025, sharing ideas of the types of ...
Milan officials are considering a one to two mill tax to fund around-the-clock staffing for the fire department. The council could approve the tax or send it to voters to decide. A house fire in Uptown Village on the city’s north side highlighted the issue. The fire occurred on March 6 while the department was on-call. Police ...
A choral piece arranged by composer Phil Silvey and developed through a creative arts project in a Saline classroom was among the favorites performed at Chelsea High School Choral Festival. The work Nine Hundred Miles was part of a collaborative project between Silvey and former Saline choir teacher Norma Freeman, said longtime Milan Choir director Shayla Powell, whose concert ...
Milan City approved the creation of a new senior advisory committee at its March 3 meeting, a group city leaders say will take a broader look at services and needs for older adults and could help oversee use of the city senior millage. The committee will not include a representative from Milan Seniors for Healthy ...
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