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Plymouth & Green

Steve Radant — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:53:55 +0000

Driver skids off road, over sidewalk; scores clean take-out of a pedestrian signal pole. Ann Arbor police officer taking report; no injuries apparent. Fresh snow is making things slick all over town.

N. Main Street

Steve Radant — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:09:26 +0000

Local band set up in a driveway near the end of the Dexter-Ann Arbor half marathon route. Current selection: “I’m getting closer to my home.”

Canal Street

Steve Radant — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:08:01 +0000

Sign for Canal Street normally leads to a grassy Riverside Park, but after last night’s rain, now connects to a pond. With ducks. [photo]

Home Telephones

Steve Radant — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:33:43 +0000

Out of the blue today, I got an automated call at my Ann Arbor home regarding ballot proposals A and B. The call came with “unknown caller” CallerID, and there was no introduction. The female-voiced call just started in saying that the city council might be trying to put “a chemical factory in our neighborhoods” without telling us about it. There was some explanation about ballot proposals would move official notices from local newspapers on to the City’s web site.

The recording insisted that residents should “vote no on proposals A and B,” with a tag line “sacrificing our right to know is just too high a cost.” There was no explanation of who created or paid for the calls.

[Chronicle coverage with partial explanation of the issue, if not the calls: "A Charter Change on Publishing?"]