I’m confused about something, and I’m hoping that someone out there can straighten me out. It has to do with the costs of maintaining Ypsilanti’s Riverside and Frog Island parks. Here, as I understand it, is the background. A few years ago, in preparation for the budget mess that we’re now facing, it was decided […]
I wasn’t able to stay too long, but, from what I could tell, the first night of the Jamboree was a huge success. I’m not a very good judge of numbers, but I’d say there were about ten thousand people. And, I guess it was just fate that, as I was walking into the park, […]
As most of you probably know, there’s a big, outdoor music festival taking place here in Ypsi this weekend. It’s being called the Jamboree, and, as luck would have it, I had an opportunity to sit down with festival director Don Sicheneder and ask him a few questions this evening. Here’s our interview: MARK: So, […]
A reader of this site calling himself Andy Ypsilanti recently left the following letter to the Mayor and City Council in the comments section and I thought that I’d move it up here, as we’ve yet to really discuss whether or not the recent move by City Council to strip control of Riverside and Frog […]
