I got an email from Kate Conat tonight that Channel 4 in Detroit is running a poll right now called 4 the Best with all kinds of SE Michigan businesses nominated in various categories. Locally we’ve got several nominees including Cafe Luwak for best sandwich shop, the Sidetrack for best burger and Smokehouse Blues [...]
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It’s that time of year again, the Art Fairs are back! The action kicks off this weekend at the Corner Brewery with the Shadow Art Fair. From noon to midnight on Saturday July 14 over forty artists will be hawking their wares amidst live music from Patrick Elkins, Black jake and the Carnies and [...] The agenda for the June 25 Ypsi School Board meeting is out and Tom Reiber has put the following item on the action items list.     h. Ypsilanti High School Nickname Reinstatement Recommendation (Enclosure #9) All of us with some common sense need to call Mr. Reiber and tell him that the students [...] Last Monday night I made the following statement before the Ypsilanti Public Schools Board of Trustees during the public comments and I wanted to share it here. I’ve got two kids in the Ypsilanti Schools. My daughter has been in the Ypsilanti public schools for ten years and my son for seven. In that [...] For those who haven’t been paying attention to my activity over on Autoblog.com I’ve been giving car related events in Ypsi some national blog love of late. I’ve done features on the Show and Shine, Vintage VW and Orphan Car shows in recent weeks. If you didn’t get a chance to get down to [...] A couple of weeks ago I got to see and photograph the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado that the RCTC collision repair students rebuilt and I today I put up a post on Autoblog.com about it. You can check out the post and photo gallery here. [...] There was a fundraiser for the Rutherford pool over at the Corner Brewery this evening with Hullaballoo providing some live tunes. The younger kids all seemed to be having a blast and hopefully they raised a few bucks for the pool. I also tried something new here. Google has a new feature with their [...] Thank goodness that Lois Richardson didn’t win the Ypsi Mayoral election last year. If the best solution she can come up with for the city’s financial problems is participating in the national prayer day then she probably shouldn’t even be on city council. The city needs some real action on attracting business to town [...] The School Board selected two new members tonight to fill the vacancies left by the resignations of Amy Doyle and Cam Getto. Eric Temple and Sarah Devaney are now members of the board for the next year until they have to run for election. The recordings of the interviews are up on the podcast [...] An article in the Ann Arbor News today makes it appear that the Monroe school district suppressed information about Layne Hunt’s tenure as th high school principal there just so they could get rid of him. The tale of Hunt’s experiences there sound almost exactly like what has happened at Ypsi High this year. [...] |
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