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.
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 ...
High School Robotics teams from across southeast Michigan gathered March 6-8 at Chelsea High School, which hosted a FIRST Robotics qualifier. It was Chelsea’s first time hosting a competition. Robots competed for top honors as 39 teams began the race toward the state championship. Top-ranked teams, Rush and Strike Zone, selected Milan’s team, Code Red ...
Students from Saline and Milan Middle School choirs performed a diverse repertoire at the District 12 Michigan School Vocal Music Association Junior High and Middle School Choral Festival Thursday March 5, at Belleville High School. Selections ranged from A Patch of Light, a newer composition by Jacob Narverud; to a musical setting of the poem In Flanders ...
Milan City approved zoning changes that could allow more than 200 homes to be built over the next seven years in Eagle Springs Subdivision on the city’s south side. Danny Veri, the Owner of Livonia Building said they still need to obtain their site plan approval, but if all goes well they hope to start building in fall 2026 or spring 2027, dependent on the weather.
It wasn’t Milan, Italy, but the 2026 Olympics-themed Gala, at the Morris J. Lawrence Building in Ypsilanti brought attendees together in pursuit of a higher purpose. During an evening of dining, dancing and philanthropy, Greater Milan Area Community Fund Chair David Snyder reflected on the endowment’s beginning on May 19, 2005, with just $100. The ...
After more than a quarter century of service, York Township Supervisor Chuck Tellas resigned in January due to health challenges, leaving behind a record of infrastructure improvements, cemetery restoration and long-range planning to maintain the town’s agricultural character amid development pressure. “It’s not the way he wanted to end his political career—He didn’t consider himself ...
Negotiations between Milan Seniors for Healthy Living (MSHL) and the City of Milan had already resumed before the nonprofit’s nearly three-hour board meeting on Feb. 18, during which leaders focused on rebuilding trust and addressing financial oversight concerns. Tensions have run strong between the two organizations after years of challenging contract negotiations for use of ...
Milan City promoted longtime employee Karis Dyc to assistant treasurer this month, helping fill a key role left vacant since former treasurer Sarah Finch left a year ago to take the position as Saline City treasurer. In the interim, the city contracted with Plante Moran, a business management consultant in Ann Arbor, which will continue ...
The Milan fair will return in 2026—fireworks included—after the city and fair board reached a contract agreement that clears the way for the 77-year tradition to continue at Wilson Park. The agreement follows concerns that roughly $1 million in Wilson Park improvements, mostly completed last summer, would push out the carnival. The fair will open with a parade ...
On Thursday Feb. 12, Milan Middle School sixth grader Nathan Bennink traded his classroom for the bowling lanes, joining classmates for a field trip to Station 300 in Saline. “We got a strike and a spare,” Bennink said. “It was fun!” The outing marked the first peer-to-peer field trip of the year, bringing together 34 ...
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