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Saline’s Secret

Dec 14, 2015 | |

Every workday, hundreds of workers stream into Saline from all points of the compass, headed to jobs at one of nearly thirty small to midsize companies tucked away in the city’s four industrial parks.The parks’ high...

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New Act for the Encore

Dec 12, 2015 | |

“We had a short period where we were stagnant,” recalls Dan Cooney. So last year, the New York-based actor sat down with his Encore Musical Theatre Company co-founder, Dexter resident Anne Koch, to consider the...

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Saline Inn Resurrected

Dec 10, 2015 | |

Saline Inn owners Frank Daidone and Nick Kirkopoulos reopened their E. Michigan Ave. restaurant on October 7, ten months after it was shut down by a kitchen fire.Daidone and Kirkopoulos, each wearing a white chef’s jacket,...

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More Clicks, More Mortar

Dec 8, 2015 | |

“Sure, you can snorkel the Huron River,” says Rachael Kasper. Her kids do it all the time, and so, on occasion, do Rachael and her husband David (“people call me ‘Scuba Dave'”), who own iSnorkel....

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Brave Art

Dec 6, 2015 | |

Alison Mackie has heard from the naysayers. “Everyone tells me it’s a tough business,” Mackie, owner of Chelsea Underground Art Gallery, says about her new venture. One Chicago gallery owner told her she might...

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A New Home for SASS

Oct 7, 2015 | |

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:...

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Makeover on Main

Sep 24, 2015 | |

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...

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Saline’s Salt Springs

Sep 23, 2015 | |

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...

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Strawberry Alarm Clock

Sep 21, 2015 | |

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...

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Horseshoes with the Dexter Ringers

Sep 1, 2015 | , |

Summer 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...

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The Civil War 150 Years On

Jul 27, 2015 | |

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...

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Ag in the Middle

Jul 23, 2015 | , |

This 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...

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Three Towns, Three Mayors

Jul 21, 2015 | , |

Dexter, 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...

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Vintage Pleasures

Jul 7, 2015 | |

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...

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Flat-Out Success

Jul 5, 2015 | |

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...

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A Home for All Ages

Jul 5, 2015 | |

“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...

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Rebranding Reddeman

Jun 21, 2015 | |

“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...

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Hungry Howie’s Relocates

Jun 4, 2015 | |

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....

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Baking on the Lake

Apr 23, 2015 | |

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,...

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Coming In from the Cold

Apr 20, 2015 | |

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....

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