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Parks
Vote Green – Keep the Voters’ Plan for a green park and civic center as a Commons for the Center of our City
by Alan Haber
This is an “illegal election” violating the City Charter, wrongly called by the City Council, seeking to sell!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
City Planning Commissioners’ Removal of Hundreds of Acres of Public Parkland From New City Land Use Plan Is Improper, Says Neighborhood Group
The unexplained deletion paves the way for development, subverts the will of the voters, and exposes the city to potential legal and financial fallout, says Ann Arbor Neighborhood Network group in its "Ann Arbor’s Parkland and Public!-->…
UM Peony Garden Open for Viewing
by Sydney Hawkins
Following a pandemic year in which visitors were asked to stay away, the nearly century-old peony garden in the University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum is open and getting ready to bloom.
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Upcoming Family Programs at the Leslie Science and Nature Center
Nature Tales: Sensational Spring
Saturday, April 1, 2017 -10:00am to 11:00am
Join us select Saturday mornings for outdoor and nature-based activities that inspire you and your preschoolers and their grown-ups to explore and appreciate the…
Natural Area Preservation (NAP) September Events
ANN ARBOR NATURAL Area Preservation (NAP) works to protect and restore Ann Arbor’s natural areas and to foster an environmental ethic among its citizens. This involves conducting plant and animal inventories, ecological monitoring, and…
New Report: Healthiest Cities in the U.S. Budget Higher Per Capita Spending on Parks—DC Budgets $400/Resident, Ann Arbor Allocates $47/Resident in 2015
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE of Sports Medicine (ACSM) unveiled its seventh annual American Fitness Index™ (AFI) data report. The 2014 AFI data report, “Health and Community Fitness Status of the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas,” reflects a composite…
Natural Area Preservation Volunteer Events for the Month of June
ANN ARBOR NATURAL Area Preservation (NAP) works to protect and restore Ann Arbor’s natural areas and to foster an environmental ethic among its citizens. This involves conducting plant and animal inventories, ecological monitoring, and…
PAC Member Complains That Parks Millage Money Is Being Diverted Through Accounting Trickery
The cash cows who live in Ann Arbor have a record of voting to nickel and dime themselves to death, literally. The city's property tax bill, thanks to "supplemental" millages, has come to resemble a check in a French restaurant where…