September 23, 2025

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Saline Welcomes New Mural

Saline Welcomes New Mural

Volunteers assisted muralist Curtis Wallace for over two weeks.  Photo: From left to right, Curtis Wallace and volunteer Donna Johnson, Columbiaville, MI painting on Sept. 12. Photo by John Anderson Can we paint the ground in the Leather Bucket Alley? As Mary Dettling, Executive Director of Saline Main Street, recalled, this was an idea Saline’s ...

Sue Kelch

Miss Saline Is All About Uplifting and Empowering Women

Miss Saline Is All About Uplifting and Empowering Women

Photo: Miss Saline Court 2025 at Saline’s Elementary School Open House. Photo from the Miss Saline Scholarship Pageant Facebook page The Miss Saline Scholarship Pageant has been described as “…hours of tense excitement to contestants, parents, and spectators alike…” – The Saline Reporter, September 10, 1958. But what goes on behind the scenes in preparation ...

Mike Williamson

Saline Field Hockey Remains Unbeaten

Saline Field Hockey Remains Unbeaten

The Saline field hockey team remains unbeaten on the season after three big wins, including a pair of wins over last season’s D1 and D2 state champions. The Hornets opened the week by taking down Ann Arbor Pioneer 1-0 in a rematch of last years D1 state title game that Pioneer won. It was a ...

STN Staff

Saline City Council Votes Against Electric Mobility Ordinance

Saline City Council Votes Against Electric Mobility Ordinance

Saline City Council voted unanimously to postpone the passing of Ordinance 877, which prohibits the use of electric bikes and mobility devices in the downtown Saline area, excepting ADA compliant devices, at the Sept. 8 meeting. The ordinance was originally proposed due to concerns about pedestrian safety and will be returned to city staff for ...

Opportunities for Voters in Washtenaw County to Learn More about Millage Proposal

Opportunities for Voters in Washtenaw County to Learn More about Millage Proposal

The Washtenaw Intermediate School District (WISD) is hosting upcoming information sessions to give voters the opportunity to learn more about the Career Technical Education (CTE) millage proposal on the November 4th ballot. Voters residing in the nine school districts served by the WISD will vote on a 1.0 mill, 10-year Career Technical Education proposal.   The ...

Mike Williamson

Saline-Skyline Water Polo 3-1 at Grand Haven Invite

Saline-Skyline Water Polo 3-1 at Grand Haven Invite

Photos courtesy of Javier Romero The Saline-Skyline water polo team had a strong showing at the Grand Haven Invitational this weekend, coming home with a 3-1 record for the tournament. The Hornets came into the weekend ranked ninth in the MWPA state rankings and showed they deserved the top ten ranking. Saline-Skyline opened the weekend ...

John Anderson

Clay + Code to Open in Saline

Clay + Code to Open in Saline

Grand Opening is Sept. 20 Photo: Tara and Hardik Joshi in front of Clay + Code. Photo by John Anderson By John Anderson A new arts space is coming to downtown Saline. Clay + Code will have a grand opening at 106 W. Michigan Avenue, September 20, noon until 8 PM, during Kinderplatz. “There will ...

STN Staff

Saline Data Center Open House on Sept. 7

Saline Data Center Open House on Sept. 7

The planned construction of a data center in Saline township has led to much citizen discussion at recent township meetings. The proposed data center would be built by Related Digital and would span 575 acres, which was purchased from local families. In order to address concerns and questions from local residents, the company will be ...

City of Saline Takes Next Steps in Davenport-Curtiss Acquisition

City of Saline Takes Next Steps in Davenport-Curtiss Acquisition

Photo: The Davenport-Curtiss Mansion in Saline, MI, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Credit: Andrew Jameson, 2010, Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons License. City Council approved a preliminary agreement with the Curtiss family regarding the city’s potential purchase of the Davenport-Curtiss mansion, located on E. Michigan Ave., Saline, at the council’s Sept. 2 meeting. ...

Mike Williamson

Saline Rolls Over Skyline in Home Opener

Saline Rolls Over Skyline in Home Opener

The Saline football team opened the home portion of its season with an impressive 50-0 trouncing of Ann Arbor Skyline Friday night. The Hornets left no doubt in their SEC Red opener that they were not going to overlook Skyline in the annual ChadTough game Friday. Saline jumped out to a 21-0 lead after one ...