Enchanted Oven, featuring cakes and other desserts, has moved on from its small bakery after nearly five years at 103 N. Ann Arbor St. due to lack of agreement on tenancy terms, according to owner/chef Amber Wardia. While...
Read MorePartners in life and art, Mackenzie Vaughn and Kyle Hoffman have found a home base for their creative works in a former barber shop behind Speedway. Hoffman grew up in Saline and met Vaughn, a Tennessee native, through the...
Read MoreA July ribbon cutting celebrated Saline’s first legal cannabis retailer. But sales officially began March 15 at Rush Cannabis, which bought the Mickey’s Dairy Twist property on the west side of town for $1.05 million in 2022 and...
Read MoreWhen restaurateur Raul Rojo realized that many Washtenaw County diners were driving up to Fenton or Linden for his authentic Mexican cuisine, he paid $950,000 for the building fronting Saline’s Commons at Sauk Trail shopping...
Read MoreThe move of Whitepine Studios into bigger digs across Michigan Ave. represents more than the expansion of a family business. “The long-term vision is to create—or at least form the core of—a cultural hub in the Saline downtown...
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Milly McClure bought the downsized Hotel Hickman Chuckwagon BBQ last year from founder Scott Thomas, but her efforts were not enough to sustain the barbecue joint, which closed in September after eleven years in a city-owned...
Read MoreRetreating from the “rat race” of the corporate world, Breana Jackson is realizing her dream to curate a particular kind of boutique. “You only get one life,” says the Dexter resident and mother of three. “I didn’t want to spend...
Read MoreA Dexter native’s passion project has become a career-changer for former physician associate Christi Lower (rhymes with power). She first encountered a “bourbon steward” at a Kentucky wedding a decade ago, then dove deeply into...
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Baker Nick Raterman has built an appreciative following over the years, selling at the Ann Arbor...
Read MoreStarbucks opened in mid-September in the new three-building retail development next to Culver’s on S. Main. A couple days after opening, store manager Timothy Lowery—with his headset on and drink order labels stuck to a few of...
Read MoreBefore Dana McGrath announced the closing this summer of La Maison, her furniture and home decor boutique on Main St., she shared the news with her building neighbor, Deborah Coy. Coy had always wanted to move her women’s...
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A lot has changed in the appliance industry since Jake Heydlauff’s great-grandfather Lloyd sold...
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Saline native Dave Reid walked to school in town while growing up in the last house in the city...
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The first time Ben Goldstein realized he was famous was in late June of this year, when some fans...
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Tucked away at the end of a long dirt driveway near a pond in what Marsi Parker Darwin calls “the...
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“Every community deserves a local newspaper that covers high school sports, civic affairs, local...
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Jeff Daniels lives in Chelsea and commutes to work on both coasts. While appearing on Broadway, an...
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After a windstorm in July, we’d been without power for nearly 70 hours when my wife got a text...
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That’s Jim Mason, recalling the moment in 2009 that led him to found Michigan Reclaimed Barns...
Read MoreWithout any advertising or even a permanent sign, Aloha Hawaiian BBQ seemed to be attracting a following in its early weeks, if online reviews are any indication. The independent counter-service restaurant with several booths...
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