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DDA board will re-post vacant director position

Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010

The Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority’s Board of Directors will re-post its vacant director position March 1. The DDA’s Ad Hoc Director Search Committee proposed a resolution to approve an interim staffing plan until a permanent director is hired.

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Residents discuss issues with Ypsi closing school

Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010

Ypsilanti community members expressed several frustrations toward plans to close schools in Ypsilanti School District at Tuesday evening’s community forum at the high school auditorium.

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Willow Run schools to get new software to aid core classes

By Dan DuChene · Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010

The Willow Run Board of Education unanimously approved a new $18,000 software package to help failing high school students graduate. The software, called E-2020, provides digital instruction videos, text books, applications, homework, quizzes and tests for teachers to use in several core classes. “It’s a tool to provide content, not replace teachers,” said Greg Bishop, the software company’s representative, at Thursday night’s meeting. Read the rest of this story at: YpsiCiti.com.

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Downtown businesses could get $100K for developments

By Christine Laughren · Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010

The city of Ypsilanti’s Downtown Development Authority is coordinating a Façade Grant application for business and property owners in the DDA districts.  The competitive grant program, funded through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, will afford property and business owners the opportunity to obtain up to a 50 percent match for façade improvements.

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Forum scheduled to talk Ypsilanti schools' budget

By Dan DuChene · Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010

Ypsilanti Public Schools announced it will be hosting a public forum Tuesday to discuss its pending budget cuts with the community. The announcement, made in a noon press release from the district, comes after the Board of Education decided to hold a series of meetings to involve the public in its decision-making process. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m.

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Ypsilanti will get new city planner

By Christine Laughren · Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010

The city of Ypsilanti will have a new city planner beginning Feb. 15. Teresa Gillotti, Ypsilanti’s Michigan State University Extension Planner, will replace City Planner Richard Murphy as he takes a new job with the Michigan Suburbs Alliance. “It happened fairly quickly that Murphy was offered a job from the Michigan Suburbs Alliance and had to quickly take it,” Gillotti said of the city planner position Thursday afternoon.

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Body found near Pearl

By Christine Laughren · Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010

A City of Ypsilanti resident was found deceased at approximately 2 p.m. today in the parking lot near the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority’s Ypsilanti Transit Center on Pearl Street. Evidence suggests the 52-year-old female may have overdosed, according to a media release from the Ypsilanti Police Department.

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Search for Census collectors has begun

By Dan DuChene · Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010

The 2010 U.S. Census kicked off Tuesday in Ypsilanti and it comes with 1,000 jobs in the area for those who could use the work. Toine Murphy, a partnership specialist for the U.S.

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BB gun causes false alarm

By Katrease Stafford · Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010

Officials are now reporting the 19-year-old suspected of carrying a concealed weapon near West Middle School was carrying a BB gun and “had no intent to harm anyone.”

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Man, 19, pleads guilty to murder

By Dan DuChene · Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009

The 19-year-old Ypsilanti resident arrested in the May shooting death of 18-year-old Cortez Donald pled guilty to second-degree murder. The information is according to a Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office release, which said Daniel Haywood pled guilty to a felony firearm charges in addition to the murder charge. The release said Haywood could face a minimum of 20 years in prison with the two convictions. The original incident took place on May 28, near Donald’s home at the 200 block Kirk Street in Ypsilanti Township.

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Student regrets not filing charges

By Ryan Remstad · Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009

On Oct. 17, Michigan’s football team played Delaware State, which amounted to a sure win for U-M and big payday for Delaware State. Arif Khan, a 19-year-old biology and psychology double major at Eastern Michigan University, worked the south stairwell at Michigan Stadium that day.

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Bee ordinance gets first OK from Council

By Dan DuChene · Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009

City Council unanimously passed an ordinance on first reading Tuesday allowing Ypsilanti residents to keep bees. The ordinance had been considered by City Council last month, but decided a permit process should be included with the original language and postponed the matter before a vote was taken. If approved on a second reading the ordinance would give residents the opportunity to apply for a permit to keep no more than two bee hives on a parcel of land.

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