November 18, 2025

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Articles for author: Lonnie Huhman

Lonnie Huhman

Grand Opening: Just Play Family Fun Center in Dexter

Grand Opening: Just Play Family Fun Center in Dexter

The Just Play Family Fun Center is a family-owned business with a simple mission: to create a fun, safe space where kids can play, explore, and make memories. This new business is finally ready to unveil what’s behind the name. To learn more about this exciting new business, the Sun Times News (STN) caught up ...

Saline Student Wins Miss Washtenaw County’s Teen Pageant

Saline Student Wins Miss Washtenaw County’s Teen Pageant

The University of Michigan and Saline will be well represented next June in the Miss Michigan and Miss Michigan’s Teen pageant. Two titleholders were recently picked at the scholarship pageant for Washtenaw County held on November 2. Both winners have unique service projects they are helping to lead along with their creative talents that helped earn them these ...

Lonnie Huhman

Dexter Community Schools Updating its Sex Education Curriculum

Dexter Community Schools Updating its Sex Education Curriculum

The Dexter Community Schools (DCS) Board of Education voted to accept the updated sex education curriculum with modifications. The Dexter school board made the decision at their Nov. 10 special meeting, which included a public hearing on the Sex Education Curriculum Update. The Sun Times News followed up with school board president Elise Bruderly about ...

Lonnie Huhman

A Chelsea Veteran Remembers His Fellow Marines

A Chelsea Veteran Remembers His Fellow Marines

EDITORS NOTE:  This article is part of a series of profiles honoring veterans during November. Sitting at his kitchen table, 19 years on from when he was a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq, Tim Lang said one of the important things he takes from that time is a sense of responsibility, to those he served with ...

Dexter Area Fire wants to better Connect with the Community

Dexter Area Fire wants to better Connect with the Community

The main goal behind the newly introduced Dexter Area Fire Department (DAFD) program named Community Connect is to better protect residents and businesses in the communities it serves. The DAFD recently announced “the launch of Community Connect, a free, secure, and easy-to-use platform designed to help first responders better protect residents and businesses in the ...

Tractor Accident in Lima Township Injures Child

Tractor Accident in Lima Township Injures Child

A child was seriously injured after reportedly being hit by a tractor on the afternoon of November 6. Huron Valley Ambulance (HVA) responded to the scene at 2:38 p.m. to a reported “child struck by a tractor on Gross Road, west of Parker,” HVA spokesman Marc Breckenridge said. “We transported one patient to Mott Children’s ...

Lonnie Huhman

What’s Next: Washtenaw County Voters Approve Career Technical Education millage

What’s Next: Washtenaw County Voters Approve Career Technical Education millage

The approval of the countywide Career Technical Education (CTE) millage will eliminate barriers and expand access to purposeful, hands-on, applied and experiential learning in every school district across Washtenaw County, Washtenaw Intermediate School District (WISD) Superintendent Naomi Norman said after voters passed the millage on November 4. “This millage will eliminate barriers and expand access ...

Lonnie Huhman

Milan Area Schools is making a difference at the Federal Prison

Milan Area Schools is making a difference at the Federal Prison

Milan Area Schools has the unique distinction of being the only high school in a federal prison helping inmates earn a full high school diploma. In describing the program to the Milan Area Schools (MAS) Board of Education, Carrie Mink, the school district’s program coordinator for the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Milan, noted a ...

Lonnie Huhman

Chelsea Second-Graders and High Schoolers Make Art Come to Life

Chelsea Second-Graders and High Schoolers Make Art Come to Life

The Monster Project is a unique effort that pairs second-graders at North Creek Elementary School with Chelsea High School ceramics students in an artistic collaboration that brings student artwork to life. This project was a tradition in the past, but went away during COVID. Now it’s back. Amanda Clor, CHS Principal, updated the school board ...

Scio Township Firefighters have a New Contract

Scio Township Firefighters have a New Contract

After a months-long negotiation process, the Scio Township Firefighters Union (IAFF Local 4891) has a new contract with Scio Township. The township board ratified the contract at a special meeting on October 31. The contract is a three-year extension that will see the group getting pay raises. Here’s a look at the newly agreed upon ...

Lonnie Huhman

Scio Township Hires a New Finance Director, Promotes Interagency Collaboration and Says Yes to Frito Lay

Scio Township Hires a New Finance Director, Promotes Interagency Collaboration and Says Yes to Frito Lay

The October 28 Scio Township Board of Trustees meeting had another full agenda with a variety of decisions made, including hiring a new Finance Director; helping to keep a neighborhood’s water and wastewater system fiscally healthy and letting Frito Lay move forward with adding on to a local distribution center. New Finance Director In hiring ...

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