Caroline Butler, senior director of behavioral health at Jewish Family Services (JFS), and Megan Carmen, director of clinical services at JFS.

Jewish Family Services adds psychiatric, transportation, and translation services with millage grant

Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County (JFS) is using a grant from Washtenaw County's Public Safety and Mental Health Preservation Millage to expand JFS' Thrive Counseling and Support program.

An Eastern Michigan University graduate teaches at Estabrook Elementary in Ypsilanti.
EMU expands loan repayment assistance program to include 16 additional majors

Eastern Michigan University has seen success in a pilot loan repayment assistance program for education students, so the university is now rolling that same protection out to 16 additional academic areas of study.

Ypsilanti Community High School students at the RCTC culinary arts program.
Ypsi high school culinary program receives Rachael Ray Foundation grant

Ypsilanti Community High School is one of 48 schools nationwide to receive a competitive $5,000 Rachael Ray Foundation ProStart Grow Grant supporting culinary programming.

Ypsilanti resident Vahna Paige (center) with her children Ocean Blue (left) and Reign Blue (right). Paige, who is currently pregnant with her third child, is one of Ypsi's first participants in the RxKids cash assistance program for new moms and babies.
Babies and pregnant moms eligible for cash assistance as Rx Kids program comes to Ypsi

Rx Kids provides moms with $1,500 cash assistance during their pregnancy, and $500 a month for up to 12 months after their babies are born.

Teacher Kim Atkins and counselor Rebekah Ward at Lincoln Middle School.
Washtenaw County mental health millage’s 2024 investments detailed in impact report

The 2024 impact report for Washtenaw County's Public Safety and Mental Health Preservation Millage shows a variety of positive outcomes from over $7.5 million in millage-funded investments last year.

A rendering of Ann Arbor's Treeline trail.
Ann Arbor’s ambitious Treeline trail project advances with $1 million state earmark

A three-mile non-motorized greenway connecting downtown Ann Arbor to the Huron River is taking a vital step forward thanks to a recent $1 million earmark in Michigan’s 2026 state budget.

Palm Leaf Club members Valerie Eaglin, Connie Mason-Taylor, Judy Jackson, Stacey Mack, Eloise Witherspoon, and Paulette Dozier.
Black women in Ypsi have been supporting community for over a century through the Palm Leaf Club

Ypsilanti's oldest African-American women's charitable organization, the Palm Leaf Club, grew out of a church club established in 1904.

Creative Washtenaw Executive Director Chloe Crowther.
Q&A: New Creative Washtenaw director seeks to strengthen collaboration, data collection in arts community

We chatted with Creative Washtenaw Executive Director Chloe Crowther about her vision for her organization and Washtenaw County's arts scene.

Bori Chef James Park.
Chef brings memories of Korean home to new restaurant above Ann Arbor’s Jolly Pumpkin

Chef James Park describes his new restaurant, Bori Korean Kitchen & Bar, as "a love letter to Korea, to Ann Arbor, and to the feeling of home."

Washtenaw Community College students study in the Bailey Library.
WCC receives grant to expand free textbook program

Washtenaw Community College has been awarded a new state grant that will expand a program that provides students free digital textbooks and other low-cost learning materials.

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