Oil discovered at Water Street (UPDATE1)
(April 1, 2007) City officials will neither confirm nor deny the rumors. However, the results from Brownfield and other environmental tests leaked to YpsiNews.com indicate that substantial oil reserves...
View ArticlePolitical Cartoon November 5, 2007
Ypsilanti Mayor’s Farmer and Schreiber campaign for a City Income Tax.
View ArticlePolitical Cartoon January 24, 2008
Ypsilanti City Council and DDA commit over $505,000 in taxpayer funding to build an elevator at Riverside Arts Center.
View ArticleCrocodile spotted in Riverside Park
(April 1, 2008) Residents have been reporting sightings of alligators in Washtenaw County for over a year. The story was even covered by Channel 4 News in August 2007 and the Ypsilanti Courier....
View ArticlePorn execs eyeing Ypsilanti for new Studio space
(April 1, 2009) Ypsilanti has been a hotbed for movie shoots and star watching from the burgeoning film industry in Michigan. Things are about to get hotter. But don’t call it porn, they want to be...
View ArticleMSU to buy EMU in hostile takeover bid
(April 1, 2010) YpsiNews.com has learned that lawyers from Michigan State University are in Ypsilanti this week to finalize the agreement to purchase Eastern Michigan University for $24 million. While...
View ArticleJust In At The Ypsilanti District Library
I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Amazing Tales of Adulthood By Dave Barry New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010 The popular humorist tackles the rocky challenges of adulthood, from technology and the...
View ArticleIt Takes A Town To Make A Video – How Was I To Know?
This is the story of the making of a music video. Before reporting how it was made, YpsiNews.com is proud to report where it was made – In Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilantian Ken MacGregor is a strong...
View ArticleNow Where Did I Put That Darn Iguana? (1 Update)
South-Side Ypsilanti resident and YpsiNews.com managing editor Steve Pierce sent an interesting inquiry via email today: If you lost an iguana (we think that is what it is) I may know where it is....
View ArticlePolitical Cartoon August 2, 2010
With the Primary election on Tuesday, the Little Mayors are back. They are making a list and checking it twice.
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