4-Corners Protectors gathering this Friday
Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size Text Size Print This Page Send by Email. We must keep up the resistance. How can we live with ourselves if we don’t? Come stand with us at the 4-Corners the first and third Friday of the month, 4pm to 5pm. Bring your heartfelt message and your voice and commit to dissent. We’ll...
Hometown Olympian Inspires Pinckney Community
Two-time Olympian Jake Vedder began snowboarding at age five at Mt. Brighton. By age 18, he captured gold for the United States at the Youth Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer 2016, earned multiple NorAm Cup podiums and made his first world cup appearance. Vedder earned his first Olympic nomination for the...
Drive-thru coffee shop opening in Dexter with deals, local fundraiser
DEXTER, MI — A Washtenaw County couple is about to see their dream of opening a coffee shop become a reality. A new Ziggi’s Coffee location is set to open tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Dexter. The new free-standing Ziggi’s was constructed at 7061 Dexter-Ann Arbor Road on an out lot fronting the road in the Dexter...
Brighton bookstore marries two couples on Valentine’s Day
BRIGHTON — Love stories came to life when a local bookstore married two couples on Valentine's Day 2026. Kaylee and Robert Kean got their fairytale ending as they said "I do" among a sea of books inside 2 Dandelions Bookshop in Brighton. The couple originally planned to have a courthouse wedding, then heard about the...
Cause unclear for house fire that killed 1 near Ann Arbor
SCIO TWP., MI - It is unclear what sparked a house fire that killed one person late last year near Ann Arbor. Investigators hypothesized a fire in a home in the 3100 block of North Wagner Road in Scio Township may have been sparked by improperly discarded smoking materials, according to a report from the township’s...
Ann Arbor guaranteed income program eased strain but didn’t shift food, housing insecurity
In December, Ann Arbor’s Guaranteed Income to Grow program sent its last payment to the 100 participants in the city’s two-year pilot program. Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, which designed and implemented the program, has now released its report on the findings from the first year. It shows that...
Michigan-made Belgium chocolate shop opening Ann Arbor location in former Kilwins
ANN ARBOR, MI — A Michigan-based chocolate and confections shop will bring sweet treats back to an Ann Arbor storefront. Ferndale-based Quix Chocolate has announced plans to open its third location at 107-109 E. Liberty St. downtown. The storefronts are the former location of Kilwins, a chocolate and ice cream shop...
Man who died at Flint-area scrapyard was RJ Torching contractor
GENESEE TWP, MI -- Police say the 53-year-old laborer who died on the job last week in Genesee Township was a Chelsea-based contractor working for RJ Torching, a Dort Highway scrapyard. Neither police nor the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration have released the name of the worker who died...
Green Oak Scientist, Small-Business Owner Rob Hower Makes Case for Education, Health Care and...
Green Oak Township business owner Rob Hower says his bid for the state Senate representing Michigan’s 22nd District is rooted in a simple idea: bring a problem-solver’s mindset to Lansing and focus on education, health care and the rising cost of living facing Michigan families. “I’m just a...
Michigan Weather Alert: 95% Rain Chance Wednesday, Snow Likely by Friday
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Detroit, Michigan – A springlike surge of warmth will push temperatures near 58 degrees Wednesday before rain transitions to accumulating snow by late Thursday into Friday across Southeast Michigan....
