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Sarah Rigg

Sarah Rigg is a freelance writer and editor in Ypsilanti Township and the project manager of On the Ground Ypsilanti. She joined Concentrate as a news writer in early 2017 and is an occasional contributor to other Issue Media Group publications. You may reach her at sarahrigg1@gmail.com.

Sarah Rigg's Latest Articles

Eastern Michigan University President Brendan Kelly.
Q&A: New EMU President Brendan Kelly on enrollment, parking, AI, student service, and more

Five weeks into his new job, we sat down with Eastern Michigan University (EMU) President Brendan Kelly to discuss his plans for the future of EMU, his alma mater.

Young people participate in a cheerleading drill organized by Ypsilanti Community - The Village.
Making sports and fitness accessible to Ypsi-area kids is this nonprofit’s focus

The grassroots nonprofit Ypsilanti Community - The Village was created by Ypsilanti Community High School alumni who wanted to reduce young people's barriers to participating in sports.

The Ypsilanti Growers Cooperative offered home and hobby gardeners a cooperative table where they could sell their produce at the Ypsilanti Farmers Market in 2012 and 2013.
Want to sell your homegrown produce at the Ypsi Farmers Market? You can through this program.

Ypsilanti-based gardening nonprofit Growing Hope wants community members to help shape the future of a program that allows home and hobby gardeners to share a cooperative farmers market booth.

Genealogist Bill Ruddock, Ypsilanti history expert Laura Damschroder, and African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County Board Chair Debby Covington at Woodlawn Cemetery in Ypsilanti Township.
Ypsilanti African-American cemetery is being rehabilitated after decades of disrepair

The African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County has been cleaning up Woodlawn Cemetery and working to identify lost graves.

Two people plant a tree.
Ypsi Free Tree Distro will give out over 2,000 trees, emphasizing food security for marginalized residents

Organizers of Ypsilanti's fourth annual Free Community Tree Distro will hand out over 2,000 free saplings of several tree species this weekend, with an emphasis on distributing food-producing trees to marginalized residents.

Lamar Thomas, Family Empowerment Program resident service coordinator for Hamilton Crossing; Jessica "Decky" Alexander, director of Engage@EMU; and Mark Hammond, Family Empowerment Program director, at Hamilton Crossing.
Ypsi’s Family Empowerment Program marks 15 years of supporting public housing residents

The Family Empowerment Program, which provides supportive housing services to residents of low-income public housing communities, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.

Missy Stults, Ann Arbor's sustainability and innovations director, in front of the Bryant Community Center. Ann Arbor's Bryant neighborhood will be the first to be connected to the city's new Sustainable Energy Utility.
Ann Arbor to generate its own renewable power through new Sustainable Energy Utility

This spring the city of Ann Arbor will take sustainability goals into its own hands by launching a Sustainable Energy Utility that will generate its own renewable power for residents.

Concept art for a mural at B-Cubed Bakery in Ypsilanti Township.
Residents plan mural for Ypsi Township bakery

Residents of Ypsilanti Township's Gault Village neighborhood plan to show love for locally-owned B-Cubed Bakery by painting a mural on the bakery building.

Volunteers line up with shopping carts of food to distribute at the Community Family Life Center in Ypsilanti.
Ypsi Township church has fed hundreds in twice-monthly food distributions for nearly 20 years

The food pantry at the Community Family Life Center, 1375 S. Harris Rd. in Ypsilanti Township, has been a family-feeding machine, distributing groceries twice a month to an average 300-400 families.

Ypsilanti District Library (YDL) Librarian Aaron Smith and Youth Librarian Stephanie Pocsi-Morrison with some of the equipment available through YDL's Library of Things, which will be used during YDL's upcoming repair clinics.
Get household items repaired for free at Ypsi library’s new “repair clinic” events

The Ypsilanti District Library (YDL) is launching a pilot repair clinic program where residents can use YDL supplies and equipment to repair household items for free.

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