Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
The Eastern Echo Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024 | Print Archive
The Eastern Echo

Christine Laughren

The Eastern Echo
Local

Downtown businesses could get $100K for developments

The city of Ypsilanti’s Downtown Development Authority is coordinating a Façade Grant application for business and property owners in the DDA districts.  The competitive grant program, funded through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, will afford property and business owners the opportunity to obtain up to a 50 percent match for façade improvements.

The Eastern Echo
Local

Ypsilanti will get new city planner

The city of Ypsilanti will have a new city planner beginning Feb. 15. Teresa Gillotti, Ypsilanti’s Michigan State University Extension Planner, will replace City Planner Richard Murphy as he takes a new job with the Michigan Suburbs Alliance. “It happened fairly quickly that Murphy was offered a job from the Michigan Suburbs Alliance and had to quickly take it,” Gillotti said of the city planner position Thursday afternoon.

The Eastern Echo
Local

Body found near Pearl

A City of Ypsilanti resident was found deceased at approximately 2 p.m. today in the parking lot near the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority’s Ypsilanti Transit Center on Pearl Street. Evidence suggests the 52-year-old female may have overdosed, according to a media release from the Ypsilanti Police Department.

More articles »


ecorse fire

ecorse fire

Authorities are still trying to determine what started a fire that burned the building on Ecorse Road that housed the law office of Block & Weider.

Jamboree

Jamboree

From left to right, Dick Siegel, Daisy May and Seth Bernard perform at the inaugural Ypsilanti Jamboree held last weekend at Riverfront Park.

More media »

A new Eastern Echo Podcast show just launched! Check out this very first episode of Wellness w/ Outdoors on Spotify today and learn some useful tools for your daily life.