With mascots roaming the gym, chants from the stands, bracket play and balls flying through the air, the district robotics tournament at Saline High School carried a little March Madness energy of its own. By the end of the weekend, host team 5066 had reached the finals and earned the Judges’ Award. The event drew ...
The Chelsea Area Historical Society (CAHS) will host its annual Lynda Collins Spaghetti Dinner on Monday, April 13, from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the historic Chelsea Train Depot. The event features a full meal generously provided by Lynda Collins’ family at Thompson’s Pizza. Attendees can enjoy spaghetti with sauce, breadsticks, salad, and a homemade ...
By Bud Haynes A team of volunteers from the Friends of the Dexter District Library joined forces with the Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor on a brisk Saturday morning, March 28, to continue a collaborative used book donation effort benefiting a local charity. By 9 a.m., 10 volunteers had gathered to move boxes of unsold ...
Four years ago, the Michigan Annual Conference (MAC) of the United Methodist Church (UMC) created Advocacy Day. Advocacy Day is an all-day event putting faith to action, and the Michigan Conference of the UMC describes it as a day when “participants meet with lawmakers in Lansing to advance legislative changes that address social systems and ...
About a year after hundreds of volunteers passed 9,100 books hand to hand down Main Street to help Serendipity Books move to its new Chelsea location, the story found a national audience. On March 11, store owner Michelle Tuplin appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where she had a chance to talk not just about ...
Washtenaw County Health Department officials on March 25 confirmed a seventh measles case tied to the local outbreak and added a new public exposure location at Trinity Health Ann Arbor. Health officials said the newest case involves an unvaccinated Washtenaw County child who was a close contact of the county’s first reported case, announced March ...
When Chelsea named Matt McKernan its 2025 Citizen of the Year, one effort stood out above the rest: helping bring fireworks back to the community. The honor recognizes a specific, tangible impact made during the past year rather than serving as a lifetime achievement award, according to Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Terris ...
By Steve Gwisdalla Quick question. What do apple trees eat? Do they grow the apples, so they fall and feed the very tree on which they were just growing? Those who have studied botany will tell you the purpose of a tree’s fruit is to grow and propagate more trees. Biologists will tell you that ...
UFO researcher and author Ray Szymanski brought Dexter’s most famous mystery back into focus during a two-day presentation at the Dexter District Library marking the 60th anniversary of the 1966 sightings. During that third week in March 1966, a wave of reports across Washtenaw County built toward the now-famous March 20 incident in Dexter Township, ...
About 30 people gathered Saturday March 21 evening at the Leslee Niethammer Saline River Preserve to learn about spring peeper frogs and listen for one of the earliest sounds of spring. The event, hosted by Friends of the Saline River, was led by Josh Kofflin and Amy Tesolin, who guided attendees along damp trails and ...
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 ...
The Lyndon Township Board of Trustees put its support behind an application to have a historical marker be placed in recognition of the Wild Goose Country Club and Subdivision. To demonstrate this after the board’s vote at their March 10 meeting, Lyndon Township Supervisor Pam Byrnes wrote up a letter of support for the Historical ...
In Milan, Jessica Meingasner set out to create something simple: a community event where every family could participate, regardless of cost. That idea grew into the Milan Area Historical Society’s Spooktacular, now drawing hundreds of residents each year for free food, activities and pumpkins. Across Washtenaw County, women like Meingasner are shaping their communities in ...
By midday on school half days, the line inside the Saline District Library begins to stretch. Students in sixth through 12th grades file in, one after another, as staff quickly plate slices of pizza and breadsticks. The program, known as “Pizza Café,” now serves between 135 and 150 students at a time. What began as ...
Everyone has a favorite ice cream flavor to share, whether it be chocolate, butter pecan, black cherry, or even dill pickle. Yes, there is such a thing as dill pickle ice cream! And if you’re from the Midwest, it really doesn’t matter which season it is – it’s still a favorite treat. The Sun Times ...
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