Community Resource Center receives new milk cooler from dairy farmers
submitted by United Dairy Industry of Michigan The Manchester Community Resource Center (CRC) has been awarded a dairy cooler as part of a United Dairy Industry of Michigan (UDIM) grant program. The program provides local food pantries with a refrigeration unit to help store milk and dairy foods at proper temperatures and build capacity to […]
Bridgewater Township’s Randy Klager named WCCD’s 2020 Conservation Farmer of the Year
Each year the Washtenaw County Conservation District honors a conservation farmer of the year, tree conservationist of the year, and a small or beginning conservationist farmer of the year. This year the District is recognizing Walter Keppler of Lima Township as the 2020 Tree Conservationist of the Year awardee, Jon Cox of Baseline Farm in […]
Federal broadband funding for significant portion of the county’s rural areas
submitted by Washtenaw County’s Broadband Task Force At its meeting Friday morning, Washtenaw County’s Broadband Task Force, a group convened by the County Board of Commissioners to achieve countywide broadband equity by 2022, shared the news of major federal broadband funding for rural Washtenaw County. Chair of the Task Force and Sharon Township resident Barb […]
Washtenaw County Health Department starts COVID-19 vaccination
submitted by Washtenaw County Health Department Washtenaw County Health Department has started vaccinating staff. Health Department staff who will be giving vaccinations to others and staffing upcoming vaccine clinics received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today. They are the first to be vaccinated. “I’m so excited to be vaccinated, and I don’t have […]
Photos: Student artwork – a hallway of snowy trees at Riverside School
photos submitted Lesley Dearhammer
Chelsea Adult Learners Institute (ALI) to offer COVID vaccine class
submitted by Joan Gaughan, Chelsea ALI In the United States alone, COVID-19 has killed more than 300,000 people, and infected at least 15 million more, including many in our own communities. Fortunately, several vaccines have now become available to combat the virus. Nonetheless, despite assurances by the CDC and other medical experts of their safety […]
Editorial: 2020 was rough; be each other’s light
Last year at this time, none of us knew what lay ahead. Even those who might have heard via news reports that a pandemic was beginning to spread across the other side of the world, likely could not have been able to imagine the devastating reality of more than 312,000 Americans dead from it a […]
What Jennifer Granholm’s appointment as energy secretary means for Michigan
By Kelly House (Bridge) University of Michigan professor Barry Rabe opens his environmental politics and policy class each semester by displaying a photo featuring former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. In it, Granholm stands with then-President Barack Obama, then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, then-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and then-Vice President Joe Biden. They are commemorating Obama’s agreement […]
Michigan may have missed COVID Thanksgiving surge sweeping nation
By Mike Wilkinson (Bridge) Michigan appears to have passed its first big holiday coronavirus test. Travel fell substantially over Thanksgiving, following warnings to avoid large gatherings, and state health officials say a slow but steady decline in new coronavirus cases may indicate Michigan has missed a feared surge. “We’re holding our breath, biting our fingernails right […]
With Line 5 closure, a ‘game of chicken’ over how to heat Upper Peninsula
By Kelly House (Bridge) If the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline shuts down next spring, Michigan has a matter of months to find a new way to deliver propane to Upper Peninsula residents who collectively use tens of millions of gallons from the pipeline annually to heat their homes. But one month after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced […]
