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 Ryan Hunter “THOSE WHO KNOW me know I will have my say, when I need to have my say,” said an emotional Judge Simpson during a support rally held in his honor last February. After a week long hearing in March, Simpson finally had his…

by Ari LeVaux AMERICANS SPEND ABOUT $33 billion a year on dietary supplements, many of which promise things like weight-loss, enhanced cognitive function, and increased muscle mass. According to Dr. Pieter Cohen, a practicing MD and…

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…

FDD Disconnect Program Thank you for your continuing coverage of the FDD program. I wanted to write to you to provide a correction and some comment. 1. In your article you state, “Frank Burdick was appointed by Council to the…

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…

ANN ARBOR IS one of 38 municipalities in Michigan whose locally-elected officials have passed non-discrimination ordinances. Republican Rep. Earl Poleski is peddling House Bill 4052, the “Local Government Employer Mandate Prohibition Act,”…