The Dexter baseball team had a strong start to the 2025 season by winning three of four games this week. The Dreadnaughts took a pair of close games from South Lyon in the season opener Thursday. Dexter scored two runs in the seventh to break a 4-4 tie and take the opener 6-5. With two ...
Work in the right-of-way will see Alpine Street closed starting later this month. The city of Dexter announced on April 4, that Alpine St. at Main Street will be “closed to vehicular traffic starting April 28th, and will remain fully closed for approximately 2 – 3 weeks for construction in the right-of-way.” This downtown street ...
When Corey and Michelle Weaver started exploring business ideas in the early 2000s, they were both working full-time and looking for something they could grow on the side. Vending machines, self-storage, even tech stocks were on the table—until they landed on something more hands-on. “Corey has always been obsessed with keeping our cars clean,” Michelle ...
Wylie Elementary School Students Volunteer to Distribute Free Seedlings The City of Dexter City Council proclaimed April 25, 2025, Arbor Day within the City of Dexter. This year the city, with help from students at Wylie Elementary School, will help distribute 600 free tree seedlings to celebrate Arbor Day. The Arbor Day Celebration is held ...
As we get spring underway it’s a chance to look back over the first half of the school year and hear some of the highlights of local students making the grade in college. The following people from the University of Michigan were recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the ...
From Chuck Colby, Publisher Since 2021, The Sun Times News has been featuring the work of young graphic artists from Creekside Intermediate in Dexter in our annual Student Ads Edition. Several businesses in the Dexter area sign up each year to have ads created for them, multiple students submit entries for each business, and the ...
The Unified Basketball Team from Dexter High School (DHS) won the Division Nine State Championship at the state tournament, which was held at Calvin College on March 21. The Dexter team was made up of Chase Biskner, Taymour Zalmout, Bennett Biga, Daniel Xuereb, Braxton Hopkins, Callan Biga and Liam Fealy. They played the team from ...
A local family’s journey through Alzheimer’s reveals the emotional weight of caregiving, love, and the long road of saying goodbye. Photo: Melissa Anne Rogers, son Luke, Jim Rogers. Photo courtesy of Melissa Rogers. The Sun Times News presents The Long Goodbye, a series sharing the journeys of three families who cared for loved ones with ...
Photo: Physical Therapist Morgan Jackson with a client. Photo courtesy of Radhika Bhagat Care2Cure Physical Therapy, a locally owned outpatient practice in Dexter, has expanded its offerings to include pediatric physical therapy. The clinic, known for its one-on-one, personalized care, has welcomed pediatric physical therapist Morgan Jackson to the team. Jackson, who earned her Doctorate ...
The Huron Waterloo Pathways Initiative (HWPI) has announced the official launch of Bridge the B2B: Double your Donation for Dexter’s Trail Connection, a fundraising campaign aimed at raising $250,000 to complete the final trail segment connecting the Border to Border (B2B) Trail into downtown Dexter. The campaign will operate on a peer-to-peer model, where individuals, ...
How a World War I-era battleship inspired one of Michigan’s most distinctive high school mascots By Doug Marrin with Nancy Van Blaricum from the Dexter Area Museum Photo: Dexter High School Yearbook first displayed the Dreadnaught Mascot in 1968. Photo: Public Domain Dexter High School’s unique Dreadnaught mascot was born out of wartime patriotism, student ...
The Dexter High School Trap Team has gone from being a student directed club to now being designated by Dexter Community Schools (DCS) into what it truly is. The Dexter Dreadnaught Trap Team, based at the Ann Arbor Moose Sportsman League and part of the Michigan High School Clay Target Association, is now a self-funded ...
An important question was being asked at the recent Washtenaw Intermediate School District (ISD)’s Education Summit. “What does the future of applied and experiential learning and workforce development look like in Washtenaw County?” Held on March 18 at Washtenaw Community College’s Morris Lawrence Building, the ISD said the summit “served as a call to action, ...
Dexter’s Dreadbots stormed into Jackson, secured a top rank, and are now preparing a powerful robot overhaul for their run at States — and possibly Worlds. By Peter Hilliard Photo: Will Weiszhaar, Luke Baur, and Fynn Nielsen working on the robot. Photo by Aodhan O’Neal. The Dreadbots have participated in their second robotics district ...
A new memoir by Lois Pratt-Mekas, Vignettes of Little Miss Pratt, captures a lifetime of stories from growing up in Scio Township to nearly 90 years of cherished memories. Photo: Lois’ father’s class at the country school Lois Pratt-Mekas, a lifelong resident of Scio Township, has released her memoir, Vignettes of Little Miss Pratt, a ...
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