Bo Schembechler statue vandalized, Ann Arbor landlords skirting city law: Ann Arbor headlines Nov. 20-25 - mlive.com
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Bo Schembechler statue was vandalized this week with paint and a message insinuating he knew about the sexual abuse committed on his players by the former team doctor.
Here is that headline and some more you might have missed this week.
The Bo Schembechler statue was vandalized in Ann Arbor early Wednesday morning with red paint and a message insinuating the late University of Michigan football coach knew about sexual abuse perpetuated by former team doctor, Robert Anderson.
Sometime in the morning on Nov. 24, someone threw red paint on Schembechler’s statue outside the UM football building on South State Street. The unknown person also spray-painted the message “Bo Knew” and “#hailtothevictims” next to the statue.
Nearly four months after the adoption of a new renter rights law intended to stop Ann Arbor landlords from pressuring tenants to renew leases early, a group that led the push for it says it’s not working out.
That’s because landlords are finding ways around it and the city isn’t doing enough about it, University of Michigan graduate student Amir Fleischmann, a member of the UM Graduate Employees’ Organization housing caucus, told City Council this past week, calling it a “total failure” of enforcement.
Every year the week of the Michigan-Ohio State game, Jeff Holzhausen walks from the middle of campus to Forest Hill Cemetery off Observatory Street.
Holzhausen, who first took the walk as a University of Michigan student in 1992, starts with flowers in his hand and goes from Burton Tower, across the pedestrian bridge over Washtenaw Avenue and into the cemetery. Also known as the Michigan “Superfan,” he goes to the graves of past Michigan football icons in a solemn show of respect.
A 26-year-old Pittsfield Township man was killed in a shooting at a mobile home park Thursday morning, according to police.
Police were dispatched to a report of shots fired at the 5200 block of West Michigan Ave. within the Arbor Meadows Mobile Home Community in Pittsfield Township at 6:11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, according to a Pittsfield Township Police Department news release. A caller also reported a white Chevy Malibu had crashed into a parked vehicle.
The pandemic has changed the way Americans celebrate.
From social distancing at dinner tables to Zoom calls over pie, Thanksgiving has not looked the same since 2019. Nothing has.
For the Michigan residents we talked to for this story, the pandemic has changed more than just the holiday celebrations – it has changed what it means to be thankful.
An Ann Arbor man suspected of breaking into four homes in quick succession and sexually assaulting one homeowner was arrested Monday morning, police say.
Police arrested the man, 33, at about 9:50 a.m. Monday, Nov. 22, while responding to several home invasions reported in the 500 block of S. Fourth Avenue, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department.
Heading into the holiday season, Ann Arborites have mixed feelings about the city’s new restrictions on holiday lights outside homes and businesses.
Under a new ordinance aimed at protecting the night sky from light pollution, holiday light displays now must be turned off between midnight and 6 a.m. and can only stay up 90 days.
On non-residential properties, they must comply with other provisions that prohibit movement and flashing.
A University of Michigan student is one of 32 Americans to be named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar, earning a scholarship to Oxford University.
Rachael Merritt, of Grand Rapids, a senior in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts double majoring in Russian and international studies, is the 30th UM student to earn the distinction as a Rhodes Scholar since the awards were established in 1902.
Despite a recent increase in COVID-19 cases throughout Michigan, Saline Area Schools Superintendent Steve Laatsch said the district and others in Washtenaw County recently discussed “COVID fatigue” and what that might mean for schools in the new year.
Laatsch said the county’s superintendents met with Washtenaw County Health Department last week to discuss how health guidance could be impacted by the recent development of children ages 5-11 becoming eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, once those students are fully vaccinated after winter break.
Roughly 17 years after it opened, Michigan environmental regulators are investigating an Ypsilanti-area ink manufacturing plant after discovering its reported emissions of potentially toxic air pollution hadn’t been permitted under air quality rules, or otherwise accounted for in state records.
The Electronics for Imaging, Inc. facility, a hulking building along I-94 in Ypsilanti Township, was flagged as creating one of thousands of possible toxic air “hot spots” across the U.S. in a recent report by the investigative news organization ProPublica.
A field across the street from the Inglewood Park subdivision south of Ann Arbor is one step closer to becoming the rapidly-growing area’s next housing development.
On Thursday, Nov. 18, the Pittsfield Township Planning Commission unanimously OK’d preliminary plans for Inglewood Park West, a 70-acre development that will combine townhomes, duplexes and office space just across the train tracks from its sister subdivision. The planned unit development, which combines rezoning with a site plan, will still need approval from members of the township’s board.
Blank Slate Creamery is scooping up ice cream awards — again.
The North American Ice Cream Association recognized three different Blank Slate flavors as being some of the best in the country, awarding Blank Slate with a White Ribbon for its Madagascar Vanilla and a Red Ribbon for its Bittersweet Chocolate. The creamery also took home third place for its Non-Dairy Peppermint Bark.
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