July 23, 2025

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Help Webster Township Create a Parks and Recreation Plan

Help Webster Township Create a Parks and Recreation Plan

Webster Township needs the help of its residents if it wants to compete for future funding help, and it starts with completing a survey. The 2025 Webster Township Recreation Plan Survey is an opportunity for residents to ultimately help form a Parks and Recreation Plan. The township said the plan will guide park development and ...

Matt Rosentreter

Dexter City Council Continues Monument Park Accessibility Discussions

Dexter City Council Continues Monument Park Accessibility Discussions

After concerns were raised by local residents at recent city council meetings, the Dexter Council has begun pursuing accessibility options for the gazebo in Monument Park. A few recommendations and potential ramp designs have been submitted to the city council. ADA standards require a slope of 1:12. Since the gazebo is 30” above the nearby ...

Matt Rosentreter

Pat and Paul Cousins Trail Renamed and Dedicated This Weekend

Pat and Paul Cousins Trail Renamed and Dedicated This Weekend

A section of the Boarder2Boarder Trail stretching between the Dexter District Library and through Mill Creek Park was renamed after Paul Cousins, known around town as “Mr. Dexter,” and his wife Pat Cousins. Both were heavily involved in the community before their passings, and their passion for nature is part of the reason Mill Creek ...

Katharine Dexter McCormick Pt 2: Suffrage, Science, and the Birth Control Pill

Katharine Dexter McCormick Pt 2: Suffrage, Science, and the Birth Control Pill

Katharine McCormick’s unwavering advocacy helped shape the women’s suffrage movement, the League of Women Voters, and modern reproductive health, including funding the first birth control pill. By the Dexter Area Historical Society Photo: Suffragette Katharine Dexter-McCormick shown on the left. Courtesy MIT Museum Editor’s Note: Katharine Dexter McCormick, the granddaughter of our founder, Samuel Dexter, ...

STN Staff

Friends Book Sale Chair Moves On To New Career in Dexter

Friends Book Sale Chair Moves On To New Career in Dexter

Cortney Ophoff led successful revenue growth for Dexter District Library Friends.  Photo by Bud Haynes Cortney Ophoff has been a part of the Friends of the Dexter District Library for the past 15 years.  As Book Sale Chair, Ophoff supervised a raft of book sorters and sale-day volunteers that has allowed the Book Sales to ...

Two Candidates Move Forward in Dexter’s Superintendent Search

Two Candidates Move Forward in Dexter’s Superintendent Search

The search for Dexter Community Schools next Superintendent is headed into a second round of interviews as the Board of Education announces the candidates moving forward. On July 14-15, the Dexter school board interviewed three candidates for the position, which will become open when current superintendent Chris Timmis retires in February 2026. The candidates interviewed ...

Chuck Colby

The Dexter Summer Festival returns bigger than ever!

The Dexter Summer Festival returns bigger than ever!

Mark  your calendars now for August 8, 9. The 2025 Dexter Summer Festival, presented by Dexter Orthodontics returns. The Dexter Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to enter our second year hosting the Summer Festival. This year’s event will be bigger than ever with three venues, all with live entertainment, the return of the parade ...

New Fieldhouse in Dexter Community Schools’ Future

New Fieldhouse in Dexter Community Schools’ Future

There are various projects Dexter Community Schools want to do with the support of the recent voter-approved bond. One being a 60,000 plus square foot field house. As they are thinking about designing it, the school district is now looking to the community for its input and ideas. On July 16, DCS Superintendent Chris Timmis ...