Oct 7, 2015 | Community |
As the sun arcs higher into the noon hour on a midsummer day, painters brush a new coat of white onto a handsome two-story house. They’re among dozens of volunteers readying the 103-year-old property for its new owner:...
Read MoreSep 24, 2015 | Marketplace |
Two couples with longtime downtown Chelsea business ties have each purchased half of the former Chelsea Village Hardware building–vacant since the store closed in January 2013–and are renovating their spaces...
Read MoreSep 23, 2015 | Marketplace |
Saline residents Ron Schofield Jr., Mark Zadvinskis, and Ed Brosius joined forces to open the city’s first microbrewery July 31. The instantly popular Salt Springs Brewery combines a microbrewery with a full service...
Read MoreSep 21, 2015 | Marketplace |
After six months of controversy, on July 27 the Dexter City Council approved plans for Jack Savas’s coffeehouse, the Strawberry Alarm Clock Cafe, on Broad St. near the railroad tracks. “We’ll break ground...
Read MoreSummer in Dexter may bring the scent of barbecue on the grill or the sight of anglers casting for trout in Mill Creek. And every Wednesday at First Street Park, it has its own distinctive sound: metal clanging on metal, as the...
Read MoreJul 27, 2015 | Community |
CRACK! … CRACK! … CRACK!Dressed as a Union soldier, George Till shoulders his 1861 Springfield rifle and fires into the air as Chelsea High School history students applaud.”I started doing reenactments in...
Read MoreThis is the first in an occasional series on the future of agriculture in Washtenaw County. In this issue, we meet two younger farmers from heritage farm families who are updating traditional commodity operations with...
Read MoreDexter, Saline, and Chelsea are very different cities, with very different mayors. Yet each tells the same archetypal political story: the call to public service, the challenge–for all three, the Great Recession–and...
Read MoreJul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized |
In Timbertown Park on a warm Sunday in May, the clock magically turns back to 1860. Squirrel Bait, the umpire, tosses a bat to Honest John, captain of the Chelsea Monitors, playing their first home game of the season after a...
Read MoreJul 5, 2015 | Marketplace |
Fifteen years ago, with Stacey Marsh about to deliver their first daughter, her husband Mike rushed to her hospital bedside, his clothes covered in flour.The birth of their daughter coincided with the opening of their bakery in...
Read MoreJul 5, 2015 | Community |
“The Lord sends us those fragile and abandoned brothers and sisters who, like the paralytic in the Bible, come crying out, ‘Lord, I have no one.'”—“Those words by Father Louis Guanella set the...
Read MoreJun 21, 2015 | Marketplace |
“You can’t beat a beer, a sunny day, and good company!” Nash Pater grins as he stands on a patio overlooking the greens at Reddeman Farms Golf & Banquets on a recent weekday afternoon. Pater–vice...
Read MoreJun 4, 2015 | Marketplace |
Hungry Howie’s closed its W. Michigan Ave. store and reopened at the end of April about a mile down the road on E. Michigan. Husband-and-wife owners Patrick Shannon and Carole King-Shannon wanted a more central location....
Read MoreApr 23, 2015 | Community |
Northwest of Chelsea, a black-and-gold sign announces “Mill Pond Bread” with the fleur-de-lis symbol of the French kings. The fragrance of baking–depending on the day, it might be Lithuanian rye bread,...
Read MoreApr 20, 2015 | Community |
Potatoes. Pretzels. Vegetables. Apples. Organic meats and eggs. Hand-dipped chocolates. Cookies. Cakes. Dog biscuits and cat treats. Alpaca wool socks. Raw, raspberry, blueberry, and thistle honeys. Jams. Jellies. Syrups. Soaps....
Read MoreKelly Hone spends her workdays with Chico the chinchilla, Badger the ferret, and Snowflake the hedgehog. Mice, chicks, bunnies, red-footed tortoises, Petunia the pot-bellied pig, and Nigerian dwarf goats round out her retinue....
Read More“It was love at first sight,” gushes Nichole Nilsson. She’s speaking of her first visit to Nixon Farms while planning her September 2013 wedding. “The minute we walked into the barn, we thought this was...
Read MoreBrendan McCall and his wife, Lili Kostova, searched for a year and a half for a house to buy. McCall, thirty-two, is executive chef and partner at Mani Osteria and Isalita restaurants, both located in downtown Ann Arbor....
Read MoreApr 7, 2015 | News |
Will Dexter’s schools annex Whitmore Lake’s schools? Not anytime soon.”The discussion was put on hold,” says Dexter Community Schools superintendent Chris Timmis. “The cost model really...
Read MoreMar 25, 2015 | Marketplace |
Dana McGrath was “ready for something more.” With the youngest of her four children preparing to leave for college and with more than a decade’s experience working as an interior designer and buyer at Merkel...
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