Starbucks 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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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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The Purple Rose bills A Jukebox for the Algonquin as a “serious comedy about sex, drugs, and...
Read MoreThe Nest Cocktail Bar & Kitchen opened in mid-April at Robin Hills Farm on M–52 north of Chelsea. Husband-and-wife chefs Vanessa and Phil Coulson had been parking their food truck, Sanich Union, at area venues, including...
Read More“This is where I wanted to be,” says Culture Creations owner Laura Scriven from her new location between Bumble’s Dry Goods and the Common Grill. The space became available in February when Scriven’s friend MaryAnne Thomas...
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On a weekday afternoon, Mack and Lilly Trenary munch on an after-school snack in the back of their...
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Curt Winans describes his wife Menuka as “a magnet” for people. When she moved to Chelsea in 2016...
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Interviewed two weeks before the election, “the mob mentality” topped Debbie Dingell’s list of...
Read More“It’s a beautiful day,” says Ann Arbor state senator Jeff Irwin two days after Michigan Democrats won the executive, legislative, and judicial state elections on November 8. “We have a whole new set of opportunities to make our...
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The former Vogel’s and Foster’s clothing store on S. Main in Chelsea is now home to two retailers...
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If you stand on the corner of Freer and Dexter-Chelsea roads, at the northwest edge of the Oak...
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“It’s the kind of neighborhood that draws people out,” Susan Morrel-Samuels says over coffee in...
Read MoreQ. Can you explain Michigan’s rules for ordering wine shipments? A. Michigan’s laws governing alcohol sales are labyrinthine. When the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933, the state set up a three-tier regulatory system: a...
Read MoreIt’s called “Long Covid,” and Smith is a member of a particularly susceptible population. In a new U-M study, one in four women reported symptoms lasting more than ninety days, compared to one in six men. “I didn’t need to be...
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As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...
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In overwhelmingly Democratic Ann Arbor, where the mayor and all ten city councilmembers belong to...
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