Mar. 2, 2010 · 10:02 a.m.
Batteries power our phones, tools, clocks, iPods, smoke detectors and sometimes our hearts.
Batteries came into widespread popular use only after World War II...read more
Feb. 23, 2010 · 10:13 a.m.
Many Ypsilantians have “remember when…” mental milestones, marking the memory of shopping at the old Cunningham’s drug store, a work stint at United Stove...read more
Reader upset with reporting on YPD complaint
By Greg Lyon
Feb. 18, 2010 · 9:56 a.m.
Regarding Megan Turf's erroneous claim of nepotism within the Ypsilanti Police Department, I'd like to add some clarification. I'm disappointed that Dan DuChene...read more
Feb. 16, 2010 · 9:32 a.m.
The young man gripped the slippery silk neck of his balloon where it connected to the fuel line. He listened to the hollow hiss of gas and glanced at the bulges...read more
Feb. 9, 2010 · 5:16 a.m.
The bridal showers and baby showers familiar to all represent only a vestige of a much larger group of onetime themed showers and socials.
Ypsilantians, long before...read more
Feb. 2, 2010 · 11:43 a.m.
“Ypsilanti sourdough. . . has its own distinctive taste,” said an unknown author of a onetime River Street Bakery Web site. The writer explained that the bread...read more
Photo by courtesy of Ypsilanti Archives
The 1852 Whitford house at 635 River Street at Forest (demolished in 1974), showing the side passage leading back to the cistern. By Laura Bien
Mar. 9, 2010 · 3:36 a.m.
When a female detective drowned in an Ypsilanti cistern in Dec. 1873, shortly after insuring her life for $19,500 [more than $300,000 today], no less a paper than the distant New York Times took notice.
“The drowning... is creating great excitement in [Ypsilanti],” reported the Dec. 26, 1873 Times. “[W]ithout any close examination the jury assumed that the body recovered from the cistern was that of May Stevens Robinson. As such it was buried, and there the matter might have ended.”
It...read more
Mar. 4, 2010 · 9:41 a.m.
There has been a lot of discussion in the last couple of days about the Thompson Block, Stewart Beal, and the city of Ypsilanti. I wasn't able to attend Tuesday's City Council meeting, but it certainly sounds like it was, as council meetings go, very entertaining. A lot of the comments on markmaynard.com and annarbor.com are also both colorful and entertaining. Usually I'd be all for sparring with all anti Ypsi or pro Beal or what ever extremists, but this time it all seems to have gotten very dull,...read more
Mar. 3, 2010 · 1:45 p.m.
Freedom of speech is a constitutional right granted to every U.S. citizen; regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender. Most of us value it immensely. Some of us exercise it more frequently than others. Still others hide behind it as a false sense of security by which they feel justified in spewing hurtful, sometimes libelous, and occasionally borderline hate-speech. Regardless of the intentions, it is clear that Megan Turf's recent open letter to the Ypsilanti City Council regarding recently...read more
Mar. 3, 2010 · 1:56 a.m.
I am as sad about City Council's vote [Tuesday night] as I am about the fire. I am particularly disgusted by the blatantly disingenuous and false comments made by Councilmember Pete Murdock, who continued to demonstrate his inability to offer any intelligent or meaningful contribution to a discussion being held in council chambers.
Tonight City Council had a choice, to continue to support a 26-year-old entrepreneur who has invested his entire adult life in improving real estate in the city or to...read more
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