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My Chelsea Neighborhood
Wandering Hills Estates
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My Dexter Neighborhood
Circling Back to Dexter
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My Saline Neighborhood
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More Trouble in Scio
Just when it seemed Scio Township’s supervisor Will Hathaway’s political problems were receding, he got new ones.
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Crime Is Back
After hitting an all-time low during the pandemic, the crimes tracked in the Observer Crime Map all rose last year.
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Privatizing CMH?
“This legislation is bastardry of the highest order.”
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More Emergency Numbers
Is proliferation a help or a hindrance?
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Business
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Down on Main Street
Banks built walls along its most vital block. Now it’s poised for a post-Covid comeback.
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Drug Overdose?
Michigan Medicine collected $482 million from a controversial drug discount program last year. Now the manufacturers are rebelling. Is a $52 million facility in Dexter the answer?
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The Day Zingerman’s Deli Almost Closed
A pandemic diary.
Marketplace
LatestIn Saline, Eleanor’s Sweets & Sodas, Rock Paper Scissors Junior, and Others Open; Earth Elements Closes
Spring/Summer 2022 | Saline | Marketplace Changes
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A Bigger, Busier Ace Hardware
As an essential business, it thrived through the pandemic.
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The Eve and Annie Boutique Opens, Red Brick Kitchen & Bar and Barred Rock Cafe Close
Spring/Summer 2022 | Dexter | Marketplace Changes
Culture
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Meetings: Face-to-Face with a Stranger
A Thousand Ways (Part Two): An Encounter
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Parker in Pictures
Sketches of the AADL director’s twenty-two-year tenure.
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Stop the Chatter!
Self-soothing our rumination and worry away
News
State Street Remake
Curbless streets are coming to the campus area
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