Chelsea Residents Meeting to Brainstorm About a “Chelsea Community Center”
“OPEN GYM TIME for drop-in basketball, after school space and programs for tweens, art studio space, open fields for pickup games, outdoor courts for pickleball, educational programming, community spaces, perhaps a community pool — imagine…
Washtenaw County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program Accepting Applications
THE ANN ARBOR Office of Emergency Management in conjunction with the Washtenaw County Emergency Management Division is accepting applications for the Washtenaw County Community Emergency Response Team training program. The application…
EDITORIAL: Trial Court Opening— “We’re Not Accepting Applications”
IN THE BEGINNING of June, Referee Julia Owdziej was appointed by Gov. Snyder to the seat vacated by Judge Nancy Francis. It was a political move and has led to not only hard feelings among the candidates who ran to fill the seat, but also…
Between February and July Number of Crimes Reported by AAPD Doubled
ACCORDING TO CRIME data reported by the Ann Arbor Police Department, between February 2014 and July 2014, the number of crimes reported per month more than doubled from 204 crimes reported in February to 411 crimes reported in the month of…
Homeless Advocacy: $50-60K Yearly in Public Funding per Homeless Individual
by David Alexander
WALKING ACROSS A makeshift bridge that straddles Malletts Creek, there’s not much to see in a 2.5-acre section of woods behind 3501 Stone School Road; there is little more than scrub, bushes and trees. But the members…
Westphal Defeats Kaplan in Ward 2 City Council Race—Council Focus Will Continue to be Development and Downtown
WHILE THE CITY’S bankers, lawyers, developers, rich and influential poured over $75,000 into the mayoral primary election campaign of Ward 3 Council member Christopher Taylor, the balance of power on City Council hung in the balance of…
Kailasapathy Defeats Challenger in Ward 1 City Council Race
SUMI KAILASAPATHY WON re-election to her Ward 1 City Council seat with 57 percent of the vote on Tuesday. She took nothing for granted in her run against Ward 1 neighbor Don Adams, Jr. She went out nightly and knocked on doors, participated…
Conlin/Liem and Owdzeij/Van den Bergh to Square off in 22nd Circuit Court Races
by Sean Sullivan
THE WASHTENAW TRIAL Court primary elections provided few surprises to those in the local legal community. On August 5, voters selected lawyers Patrick Conlin and Veronique Liem to compete in November for the Circuit Court…
EDITORIAL: City Council Collegiality and Collaboration
ANN ARBOR’S NEXT mayor inherits a City Council that has shown itself capable of cohesion, compromise and intense partisanship. Reformers were elected and re-elected to City Council based on promises to fund core services and tend to the…
Christopher Taylor Wins Four-Way Mayoral Primary Race
by P.D. Lesko
Petersen, Briere and Kunselman defeated—Sally Petersen slated to step down in November 2014. Stephen Kunselman says he will not run for re-election in 2015. Liksewise, Sabra Briere has suggested she will not seek…