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The county’s Covid-19 snapshot reports 860 cases in the two weeks ending yesterday, down from 992 last week. There are 113.7 cases per 100,000 residents, down from 142.8 last week, and the test positivity rate is 9.3 percent. The CDC community level is still “medium,” and will update at 8 p.m. tonight.
An Ypsilanti man was charged with murder last week, MLive reports, after the family of the man’s ex-girlfriend called for a welfare check. She wasn’t home when police looked for her, and authorities believe that a body found by firefighters in Flint after they extinguished a blaze at a vacant house is hers. The man is being held without bond and is charged with open murder and using a firearm in a felony.
Saline and Michigan state police arrested a man being investigated for an Ohio homicide, the Saline Post reports. The man, a suspect in the killing of three-year-old Declan Hill in Sylvania, Ohio, surrendered to law enforcement at his relatives’ home on Saturday.
An Ypsi Township man rushed into a burning building to save his neighbor, MLive reports (subscriber exclusive). Off-duty sheriff’s deputy D. Bates pulled his neighbor out after learning that the man had gone inside and not returned. The neighbor was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Santa Ono starts work as U-M’s 15th president tomorrow. The former president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia takes the reins from interim president Mary Sue Coleman, ending the interregnum that started with Mark Schlissel’s firing in January.
U-M sets another enrollment record. Fall 2021 saw the Ann Arbor campus top 50,000 students for the first time, and this year it added nearly 1,000 more: Data released last week show that at the start of the 2022 academic year U-M had 51,225 students. LS&A remains by far the largest unit, with 21,384 students, followed by Engineering (11,051) and the Ross School of Business (4,362).
A court ruled that Starbucks illegally fired a local worker for union activities, Bloomberg reports. A National Labor Relations Board judge determined that the company must offer reinstatement and back pay to Hannah Whitbeck and host a meeting on workers’ rights, where they must read a notice affirming that her firing broke the law.
City council heard calls for more effective suicide-prevention barriers at city parking decks, MLive reports. While recent years have seen the installation of chain link fencing around upper levels, resident Peter Eckstein urged the DDA to implement something less easily circumvented; last month, a 24-year-old man died after he climbed around a fence at the Fourth and Washington structure.
The newly-curbless State St. reopened to traffic Saturday, MLive reports. The result of four months’ construction and ending the first phase of the project, the redesign creates a more flexible space that will allow businesses to treat portions of the road as an extension of the sidewalk and makes the area more pedestrian-focused. Next April until Labor Day, phase two will close the street from North U to Washington to finish the project.
The Maple Rd. bridge over the Huron reopened yesterday after renovations were completed, significantly ahead of schedule.
Consumers who bought Kuntry Gardens produce should throw it out, the Michigan Daily reports. According to a press release Monday from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, fields on the Amish farm could have been accidentally contaminated because raw, untreated human waste was deposited near farm equipment last spring.
Michigan football triumphed again last Saturday with a 31-10 win over Indiana. This Saturday at noon they’ll face off with Penn State at the Big House.
U-M running backs coach Mike Hart is “trending in a positive direction” after he suffered a seizure at the Indiana game last Saturday, the Detroit Free Press reports. The all-time leading rusher for the Wolverines, Hart has been the program’s running backs coach for two seasons. “I would like to thank everyone for their support, messages, and prayers,” Hart said in a statement Monday.
A group of locals who are children of Holocaust survivors banded together to keep their parents’ stories alive, Cynthia Furlong Reynolds reports in the October Observer. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust began as a project between congregants at Ann Arbor’s Temple Beth Emeth more than fifteen years ago. “As amazed as I have been by the horrors my parents endured,” said one, “I have been equally astounded by the miracles that enabled their survival—the extraordinary acts of courage, devotion, and resilience.”
A new multi-dimensional art exhibit opens at CultureVerse on Main St. tomorrow, ClickOnDetroit reports. Kara Thomas’s “Dimensions” features tangible and intangible art blending tech, ceramics, and fine arts. The venue is another cultural venture from LLamaSoft founder Don Hicks, who is also behind the Blue LLama across the street.
Downtown’s weekend dining street closures on Liberty, Main, and Washington conclude for the year Oct. 31.
More than 400 volunteers formed a human chain to move books into the Ypsi District Library’s newest branch last weekend, MLive reports. When it opens in November, the Superior branch’s collection will include approximately 2,000 volumes that were passed hand to hand by the volunteers.
Ticket To Paradise, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, has an advance screening at the Michigan Theater next Thursday. The local connection: U-M film grad Daniel Pipski wrote the script with director Ol Parker. Pipski will be on hand for a post-showing Q&A.
NPR’s Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! kicks off their tour at the Michigan Theater next Friday, Current reports. The beloved standup comedy quiz show features contestants guessing between genuine and fake news stories. The performance will mark the group’s first tour since 2019.
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