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(07/03/20 9:59pm)
Ypsi Votes is a brand new series from the Eastern Echo featuring candidates up and down the ballot in Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township. Get accessible and in-depth information on the candidates on your ballot. Note: The Echo does not endorse any candidate for any office.
(07/01/20 1:53pm)
Ypsi Votes is a brand new series from the Eastern Echo featuring candidates up and down the ballot in Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township. Get accessible and in-depth information on the candidates on your ballot. Note: The Echo does not endorse any candidate for any office.
(06/20/20 2:54pm)
Dozens gathered for a virtual town hall forum on Thursday, June 18, to discuss racism and police reform in Ypsilanti.
(02/08/20 11:41pm)
The City of Ypsilanti has yet to issue permits for recreational marijuana to be sold in the city’s several marijuana dispensaries, but that will be changing soon, with the city now accepting applications to receive a permit.
(02/02/20 1:49am)
From Jan. 10 until Jan. 31 the Riverside Arts Center held their most recent exhibit, entitled “Insecurity."
(10/22/19 2:15am)
Ronia-Isabel Cabansag: In this week’s news overview, EMU Theatre has announced big plans for their December production. In local news, Ypsi city council has voiced their decision on recreational marijuana establishments, and EMU may be seeing an influx of graduate students in the coming semester. We’ll also be announcing performance times for EMU Theatre’s production of Cabaret.
(08/15/19 6:19am)
Council Member Annie Somerville and social equity activist Chris Jackson hosted the City of Ypsilanti’s first town hall about recreational marijuana use and corresponding social equity plan on August 8, 2019. Residents filed into City Hall at 6 p.m. to participate in the discussion.
(05/17/19 4:00am)
During the Ypsilanti City Council meeting on May 7, council members voted to move forward with deconstructing the historical Peninsular Paper Dam which sits on the Huron River just north of Eastern Michigan University’s campus.
(04/16/19 4:00am)
Ypsilanti city council meeting in 15 minutes. Follow this thread for updates throughout the meeting and later tonight for an article from @ThisIsLenzo @TheEasternEcho #ypsi #ypsilanti #truemu #easternecho
(04/04/19 5:47pm)
This added to the council propsed business portion of the meeting.
(09/26/16 12:01pm)
Trying to get an early start on the haunts and frights of Halloween? Wiard's Orchard is hosting Night Terrors, a haunted thrill park on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Sept. 30 to Oct. 31. There are six haunted attractions in their location on 5565 Merritt Rd., ranging from hayride of the lost, alien caged clowns, the asylum, live action haunted paintball and more. Ticket prices vary based on the attraction.
(10/10/15 11:29pm)
This year’s winners of the Ypsi 24-Hour Film Shootout were announced at a public screening at Washtenaw Community College Friday, Oct.9 at 7 p.m.
(09/30/15 9:31am)
With everything going on in today’s world, it’s easy to forget that there are also changes happening here at home. The Convention and Visitors Bureau that created the #VisitYpsi brand that helps market Ypsilanti to the world is being threatened. The threat is a merger between the Ypsilanti Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Ann Arbor Convention Visitors Bureau, which will cause us to lose our individual voice in the county. It is a mistake to create a bureau merger between two very different cities and peoples. This same merger has been brought forward before and failed.
(03/24/15 4:44pm)
The Eastern Michigan University Athletic Department announced today that they will host the first ever “Ypsis,” which is an award banquet event similar to the ESPY’s. It will feature a green-carpet entrance and Hollywood-style production according to a press release released by emueagles.com.
(09/14/14 3:56pm)
Eastern Michigan University joined with Visit Ypsi, a tourism bureau focused on the Ypsilanti area, to create an Instagram Scavenger Hunt for students, which was held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, starting at the south entrance of the student center.
(03/23/14 7:31pm)
What city with no money can afford to give it away?
(05/14/13 12:21am)
UMC volunteers for the LGBTQ community—
(02/25/13 1:26am)
Ypsilanti City Council passed the first reading of the “Food Production Amendments” ordinance—omitting all wording pertaining to “hoophouses” or “greenhouses”—at its Feb. 19 meeting.
(11/05/12 2:32am)
Ypsilanti residents will have two additional proposals on their November ballot, both dealing with consolidating the Willow Run Community Schools and Ypsilanti Public Schools.
(04/08/12 8:49pm)
The city of Ypsilanti will ask voters on May 8 if two proposals to increase the city’s revenue should be implemented. The first is a city income tax of at least 0.5 percent to be levied on anyone working in the city. The second is a millage of about 5.5 mills, or 0.55 of a cent, for debt accumulated through the Water Street project.