Ann Arbor / Washtenaw County
- AnnArbor.com (Online News and Community Resource)(Starting July, 2009)
- Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors (Includes Area Housing Statistics)
- Ann Arbor Business Review (MLive)
- Ann Arbor Chronicle (Daily News)
- Ann Arbor City Code
- Ann Arbor City Tax Assessment Data (Home Values)
- Ann Arbor Community Education and Recreation Department
- Ann Arbor News
- Ann Arbor News Obituaries (most recent 180 days)
- Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (the buses)
- Another Ann Arbor (African American History, Businesses, Organizations)
- Arborweb (Ann Arbor Observer Events/City Guide)
- ArborWiki
- Ark
- Art Fair (Listed Below Are Links to the Four Art Fairs That Form the Ann Arbor Art Fair)
- Ann Arbor's South University Art Fair
- Ann Arbor Street Art Fair (North University, Thayer, and East Washington)
- Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair (State Street, Main Street, and Liberty Street from Ashley to Fifth Ave.)
- State Street Area Art Fair (Maynard, William, N. University, Thompson, and Liberty from Division to State)
- Ann Arbor's South University Art Fair
- Associations: Ann Arbor Registered Residential, Commercial, and Watershed Associations
- Business Names Search (Washtenaw County Vital Records Division)
- City of Ann Arbor
- Concentrate (Weekly Online Magazine)
- Craigslist: Ann Arbor
- eCurrent (Events: Films, Concerts, Plays, etc.)
- Huron Valley Community Network
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum
- Michigan Theater
- People's Food Co-op
- Recycle Ann Arbor
- Rights and Duties of Tenants (City of Ann Arbor) (pdf)
- State of Our Environment (Ann Arbor)
- United Way 2-1-1 (Health and Human Services Help Line (24 Hours Every Day)
- Washtenaw County Clerk (Searchable Death Records (1960 - ) & Marriage (1965- )
- Washtenaw County Cyber Citizenship Coalition
- Washtenaw County Government
- Washtenaw County Property/Parcel Lookup
- Washtenaw County 3-R Business Directory (Waste Knot Partners (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle))
- Washtenaw County Trial Court
- Your Elected Officials (Enter your address, click on Voter tab to get ward, precinct, & elected officials )
Cinema Ann Arbor
From the 1930s through the 1990s, Ann Arbor was home to a vibrant alternative/art/experimental film scene, led by University of Michigan student film societies. Before home video and cable movie channels caused their demise, the film societies offered Hollywood and foreign classics, curated series, and regional premieres year-round, sometimes seven nights per week. The societies also brought guests like Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Maya Deren, Robert Altman, and Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground to town; helped launch internationally renowned festivals dedicated to 8 mm and 16 mm experimental films; supported local filmmakers with equipment and screenings; and served as a film school for future notables like Ken Burns, Lawrence Kasdan, Owen Gleiberman, and Michael Moore.
All of this happened with minimal support or oversight from the university, and the societies’ cutting-edge programming sometimes got them in trouble. In 1967, four Cinema Guild members were arrested by Ann Arbor police for showing the “obscene” short Flaming Creatures, and there were protests and even bomb threats over screenings of the racist The Birth of a Nation, the gay-stereotyping The Boys in the Band, and the pope-condemned Hail Mary.
Lectures & Panel Discussions
A Conversation With Chef and Writer Tunde Wey
Friday April 20, 2018: 7:00pm to
9:00pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room
Blog Post
Teens Using Drugs: Education Series
by Beth Manuel
The Dawn Farms Education Series, "Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do" will resume in January, 2018. This is a free, two-part series that will be presented from 7:30-9:00 pm Tuesday, January 2nd (part one, "What to Know"), and Tuesday, January 9th, (part two, "What to Do"). The programs will be held in the "Exhibition Room" on the first floor of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Education Center at 5305 Elliott Drive, Ypsilanti. The sessions are presented by the Dawn Farm Youth & Family Services team. This program is targeted primarily to parents/caretakers of teens & young adults but is inclusive of other family members, teens, professionals, students, people who sponsor or support teens, and others interested. Please contact 734-485-8725 or info@dawnfarm.org or see the link to Dawn Farm for further information.
Blog Post
Smoke Alarms Save Lives!
by Beth Manuel
The American Red Cross Michigan Region is conducting free smoke alarm installations & inspections. If you have alarms that are over 10 years old, don't work, or need an alarm on every floor of your home, contact the Red Cross for a 20 minute home visit! The Red Cross can provide up to 3 new smoke alarms at no cost. Washtenaw, Lenawee & Monroe residents call (734) 971-5300 ext. 229. Wayne, Oakland, Macomb & St. Clair residents call (313) 576-4112. You can also sign up on line right here.
Blog Post
FAA Draft Environmental Assessment
by lucroe
Today, the Federal Aviation Administration is releasing and making available for public review and comment a Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) for the Cleveland-Detroit Metroplex. The CLE-DTW Project would improve the efficiency of airspace in the Cleveland-Detroit Metroplex by optimizing aircraft arrival and departure procedures to and from the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) and Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) as well as outlying satellite airports. The Project may involve changes in aircraft flight paths and altitudes in certain areas, but would not result in any ground disturbance or increase the number of aircraft operations within the Cleveland-Detroit area.
To evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the CLE-DTW Metroplex project, the FAA has established a General Study Area, consisting of areas around CLE-DTW and outlying satellite airports. The General Study Area will be used to evaluate the potential environmental impacts resulting from changes in aircraft routing proposed to occur below 10,000 feet above ground level (AGL).
Documents and additional information related to this assessment can be viewed here.
Blog Post
Hot Holiday Meals for the Hungry!
by Beth Manuel
St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor will serve its daily hot breakfast on Thanksgiving from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. as it does every day of the year. The Original Cottage Inn will offer its annual Thanksgiving meal for the needy and homeless, a tradition that dates back more than 30 years. The dinner is served on Thanksgiving between 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Vineyard Church is also providing a Thanksgiving Meal, November 23rd from 11:15 AM-5:00 PM. 2275 Platt Road, Ann Arbor. They are also in need of volunteers; email: homelessministries@vineyard.org.
Brown Chapel AME Church,1043 W. Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti, is serving a Thanksgiving Meal on Wednesday, November 22nd from 12-2 PM, and they also need volunteers: 734-482-7050. Dexter Senior Center will be serving a festive holiday meal on Friday, November 24th from 11:30-2:00 PM, 7720 Ann Arbor Street, Dexter, 48130. They, too, need volunteers, if you're looking for a way to help out this season!
Exhibits
Additive/Subtractive Works by Helen Gotlib & Dylan Strzynski
Monday January 15, 2018: 9:00am to
Sunday February 25, 2018
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room Exhibit
Blog Post
Teens Using Drugs: Education Series
by Beth Manuel
The Dawn Farms Education Series, "Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do" meets again. This is a free, two-part series that will be presented from 7:30-9:00 pm Tuesday, November 7th (part one, "What to Know"), and Tuesday, November 14th, (part two, "What to Do"). The programs will be held in the "Exhibition Room" on the first floor of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Education Center at 5305 Elliott Drive, Ypsilanti. The sessions are presented by the Dawn Farm Youth & Family Services team. This program is targeted primarily to parents/caretakers of teens & young adults but is inclusive of other family members, teens, professionals, students, people who sponsor or support teens, and others interested. Please contact 734-485-8725 or info@dawnfarm.org or see the link to Dawn Farm for further information.
Public Event
Washtenaw Reads Book Discussion: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
Sunday February 11, 2018: 2:00pm to
3:00pm
Pittsfield Branch: Program Room
Grade 9 - Adult