April 19, 2025

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Chelsea Education

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Local College Students from Chelsea and Dexter Find Academic Success

Earning their degrees to making the Dean’s and President’s lists, local college students are finding success. Occasionally the Sun Times News recieves updates about local students succeeding at the college and university level. Here are a few recent ones. At Indiana’s Trine University this spring, students completed degrees at the end of the Spring 2024 ...

Chelsea’s South Meadows Elementary School has a New Principal

The Chelsea School District has its next principal for South Meadows Elementary School. With the retirement of Stacie Battaglia as principal of South Meadows Elementary, the CSD Board of Education approved the administration recommendation to hire Katie Spisich as the new principal. Spisich is a familiar face and knows the school quite well already as ...

A Millage Renewal is expected to go before Chelsea, Dexter and Saline voters

Going before school boards around Washtenaw County is a resolution asking districts to support renewal of the Washtenaw Intermediate School District Special Education Millage. This millage renewal is proposed to go before voters county-wide in the November 5 General Election. The Saline, Dexter and Chelsea school boards have all looked at the renewal proposal. The ...

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Chelsea Education Foundation Needs Your Support to Shape Tomorrow’s Leaders

Community News  Chelsea Education Foundation is in the midst of its “Building a Bulldog Future Fundraiser.” This Fundraiser celebrates the achievements of Chelsea’s Class of 2024 and enhances educational endeavors across the district. It’s about you, our community, coming together to empower future Bulldog graduates and make a lasting impact on their lives.   Donations help ...

Building a Bulldog Future Fundraiser

Community News Chelsea Education Foundation (CEF) is launching “Building a Bulldog Future 2024 Fundraiser” starting May 1 and culminating on June 2, Graduation Day for Chelsea’s Class of 2024. In addition to celebrating this year’s graduates, CEF is committed to creating a bright future for all Chelsea Bulldogs! The money raised will help CEF fund ...

Honoring Chelsea’s Top Five Academic Scholars

Chelsea’s Top Five academic performers were recently recognized and honored for their hard work. On April 24th, five students from Chelsea High School were recognized at the annual Southeastern Conference Banquet held at Weber’s Inn. The students were: Lillian Synder, Cypress Gabriel-Menegay, Ryan Fredrickson, Wynne Van Hoek and Gavin Taylor. They represent CHS’s top 5 ...

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SWWC Building Trades students hard at work in Dexter

Helping with some needed improvements at the Jenkins Early Childhood Learning Center, students in the Building Trades program from the South & West Washtenaw Consortium (SWWC) are definitely getting real world training experiences. A group from the SWWC has been at Jenkins rebuilding the stairs and ramp to the Baby House and replacing the front ...

Chelsea High School

Chelsea High School ranked in the Top 3 percent of Michigan high schools

Chelsea High School was recognized as being the 32nd ranked high school in the state, according to the U.S. News and World Report rankings released on April 23. U.S. News and World Report has released their annual look at the 2024 Best High Schools rankings, which ranked nearly 17,660 out of more than 24,000 reviewed ...

Independent Bookstores Day Celebrates its 11th Anniversary

Serendipity Books is happy to announce our participation in the 11th Anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day! Serendipity Books will have many exclusive items for sale and as giveaways, from specialized tote bags, to banned books puzzles, to customized cookies. There will be mocktails, snacks, raffle prizes, and a spin-wheel game to individualize our fantastic giveaways. ...

Adult Learners Institute’s Term Ends with Local History and Football

Community News For almost two decades, Grace Shackman’s classes have explored the history of Washtenaw County’s cities and small towns using the houses, libraries, schools, hospitals, banks and businesses, downtowns, even streets and roads. As the name of her class, Potpourri of Finds and Thoughts of 50 Years of Researching Local History suggests, on three Fridays, May 3, ...