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Inside the AATA’s ambitious plan to spread mass transit beyond Ann ArborWell, it wasn’t the library. That was my best guess as the site of the “u196” meeting I was looking for. I had decided at the last...

In March, garlands of white and yellow blossoms festooned the hundreds of apple trees that have been carefully planted over the past eighty years at the Lutz family’s orchard, located about five miles southwest of Saline....

Like many residents of the Huron Farms subdivision, Scott Kraft was grateful for all the help that arrived after the March 15 tornado. Right behind the police, firefighters, and ambulances, volunteers showed up offering water...

There’s oil under Manchester and Saline townships. How they get it out is the question.Hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, blasts chemical-laced water and sand deep into the earth to splinter rock formations and release...

Dexter village’s astounding 74 percent population increase in the last census–from 2,338 in 2000 to 4,067 in 2010–made it the fastest-growing community in the state. Yet even as new subdivisions sprouted in...

The fate of the fire service in western Washtenaw County will likely be decided on March 20. That’s the day Webster Township’s board votes on a proposal to merge two of the west’s fire services, the Dexter Area...

The atmosphere at Sylvan Township Board meetings these days is different from what it was a year ago. The audience, which once barely outnumbered the five-member board, has become more numerous and more engaged.”There has...