Wozniak is executive director of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. It was founded in 1999, she says, “to address some of our state’s most egregious problems regarding the air we breathe, the water we drink, and protecting public health and the natural environment.”
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The U-M’s $631 million dorm complex on the old Elbel Field isn’t even finished, and Evan Pratt is already worried about its future. That’s because Allen Creek flows underground beside the property—and with Ann Arbor getting wetter, the county’s outgoing water resources commissioner says, it’s getting harder to keep it there.
Read MoreA regular customer of the former location on E. Liberty, Jessica Cichowlas secured a new storefront in a plaza along the burgeoning Jackson Rd. corridor in Scio Twp.
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Dohner compares MIFarmLink to “a matchmaking service that connects farmland owners and seekers who would otherwise never meet.” According to the Conservation District, land access is the greatest barrier for beginning farmers; meanwhile most farmland owners lack a succession plan. MIFarmLink neatly solves the problem with an online tool that lets owners list their available properties and farmland seekers post their professional profiles.
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“The number of cases has exploded,” says Beth Ann Hamilton, communications coordinator for the Washtenaw County Health Department.
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Is global warming making our springs earlier and longer, or is this year a fluke? Area scientists and nature lovers say it’s too soon to tell.
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Ask most Michiganders about the hazards of driving in a state full of wildlife and you’re likely to hear about run-ins with deer. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, a different kind of traffic hazard asserted itself.
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In March, Michigan’s Agricultural Preservation Fund Board awarded $2 million to eight farmland preservation programs across the state to purchase development rights that protect land for agricultural use. Five of the eight are in Washtenaw County.
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When it’s completed next year, the $10 million, 11,000-square-foot Edward and Rosalie Ginsberg...
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On Facebook’s Buy No Things Ann Arbor page, Stacie Cowie recently put out a request for old copies...
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At the end of February, the city’s Parks Advisory Commission heard an unusual pitch: The local...
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At the start of this new year, a barking dog and a white wisp of smoke heralded a new era in...
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“It was fantastic,” says AAPS parent Rebecca Meuninck. The former Ecology Center deputy director...
Read MoreQ. I have a question about the Gelman Plume cleanup. After contaminated groundwater is treated to reduce dioxane levels, it is discharged into a tributary of Honey Creek, which joins the Huron River upstream from Ann Arbor’s...
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For every dollar American consumers spent on produce, dairy, and meat products in 2022, the...
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Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority CEO Matt Carpenter says transit agencies can do two things...
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“It’s a facility that’s dedicated 100 percent to processing safety defects,” says Benjamin...
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He’s speaking of the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive insect that has devastated hemlock...
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