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by Zoe Ash Editor: Zoe Ash is a Junior at Ann Arbor Skyline High School and an intern at The Ann Arbor Independent. She is working on a project called Businesses of Ann Arbor. The photo essay project is a riff on the “Humans of….” websites…

by Ed Golder THE MICHIGAN departments of Natural Resources (DNR) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) announced yesterday the state’s first confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N2 in the state. The…

by Stavi Tennenbaum DESPITE THE WEEKEND’S continual downpour, the third annual Live on Washington, a free outdoor music and arts festival organized by teens of the Ann Arbor Neutral Zone, continued its tradition of local dancing and…

The online site where residents can report service requests from potholes that need filling to graffiti, fields a growing number of requests each week. Over the course of the month of May, dozens of residents reopened tickets which had been…

First Friday Ypsilanti is a self-guided monthly art walk hosted throughout downtown Ypsilanti at multiple venues.  Each month on the first Friday participating venues offer free art activities involving local artists, musicians, and/or…

by Joyce Williams At their annual EMS Recognition awards dinner on May 19, Huron Valley Ambulance honored the late Joe Dulin with a Special Recognition Award for his contributions while serving on the HVA Board of Trustees. Dulin was…

On June 2, Progress Michigan announced its new “Adopt-a-Pothole” program that will allow Michigan citizens to nominate Michigan’s worst potholes by naming them after elected officials who have failed to fix Michigan’s crumbling roads.…

by Donna Iadipaolo A TEAM OF 22 Ann Arbor sixth graders placed third in the nation out of 100 teams at the National competition this school year. The Forsythe Middle School 6th grade team scored a total of 1215 points out of 1500…

by Madeline Fetchiet SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL’S top-rated Singles player, freshman Caroline Courtwright, helped lead her team to their first girl’s tennis Division 1 Regional Championship on May 15. Right behind the Skyline Eagles were…

On May 2 a rare 4.2 earthquake hit Western Michigan and shook Ann Arbor, devastating no one. Eight days earlier, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, killing as many was 15,000 people, injuring over 12,000 more and leaving 16,000 schools…