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Bourbons featured at the Ypsilanti Bourbon Fest.
Bourbon festival set to return to Ypsi

Ypsi Bourbon Fest will return Jan. 18 at the Michigan Firehouse Museum, promising a lively experience for bourbon enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

A chef demo at the 2024 Ann Arbor Local Food Festival.
Ann Arbor plans cookbook to advance carbon neutrality goals

Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations is developing a free A2ZERO Community Cookbook to help Ann Arbor residents make climate-friendly food choices.

A researcher interviews participants in the "Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies" program.
U-M report finds promising results for state pilot program supporting new parents

A pilot program that aimed to improve health outcomes for pregnant parents and their children has shown promising results, enhancing food and financial security and stabilizing housing for families.

Show Love Saturdays founder Gordon "Big" Dooley shows off wares from his business, Husky Life.
Pop-up holiday market series returns to Ypsi for second year

Ypsilanti entrepreneurs Gordon "Big" Dooley and Travis Willis have partnered again this holiday season to present the Show Love Saturdays Pop Up Shop.

I-AAM founder and Clinical Director Leah Mills-Chapman.
Free mental health care available to young Black men through new program in Ypsi Township

A new program in Ypsilanti Township is offering free mental health services  to Black males aged 10-25 and their families.

Chris Grimm as Enrico Fermi and Greg Kovas as Werner Heisenberg in "Last Summer."
Ann Arbor meeting between physicists Fermi and Heisenberg dramatized in new original play

The Ann Arbor District Library and Ann Arbor Civic Theatre have teamed up to present "Last Summer," an original one-act historical play about a pivotal conversation on nuclear weaponry that took place in Ann Arbor in 1939.

Ypsilanti artist Jessica Tenbusch will be one of 18 Washtenaw County artists featured in the forthcoming Studio Deals Midwest event.
Ann Arbor, Ypsi artists to welcome buyers into their studios as part of seven-city Midwest event

Detroit-based ArtClvb, an online network for the art world, will bring its Studio Deals Midwest event to Washtenaw County this winter, connecting art buyers to artists in the artists' studios.

Kate Mehuron, Emma Wuetrich, and Dennis O'Grady at EMU's Student Center.
EMU LGBT Resource Center celebrates 30th anniversary with look back at center’s historical impact

Eastern Michigan University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center has had significant impact on both the EMU and Ypsilanti communities.

Plantings on a formerly vacant lot in Flint.
U-M to continue research on vacant land reuse in Flint with federal funding renewal

The University of Michigan’s Prevention Research Center of Michigan has received $5 million in renewed funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue its community-based research, focused primarily on Flint, through 2029.

EMU President James Smith and "Thankful For You" event planning committee member Connie Ruhl-Smith at last year's drive-through Thanksgiving meal giveaway.
EMU to offer drive-through Thanksgiving meal giveaway for third year

Organizers hope to feed 500 Ypsilanti community members in Eastern Michigan University’s third annual "Thankful For You" drive-through Thanksgiving meal giveaway on Nov. 21. 

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