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Your contribution makes a difference. This paper has been publishing since 1885 — through two world wars, a dozen recessions, and every kind of change a small town can go through. Today we’re the local paper for Chelsea, Dexter, Saline, and Milan — and we reach readers in Ann Arbor, Pinckney, and Gregory too. Every city council meeting, every school board vote, every Friday-night score. The more readers behind The Sun Times News, the better the paper gets.
Pick a monthly amount. We’ll put it to work.
Monthly readers keep the newsroom running. We named each tier after a Great Lake — smallest to largest — because we’re a Michigan paper and it felt right. Pick the one that fits.
The Ontario
The smallest Great Lake still connects two countries. Five dollars connects you to the newsroom that covers your town.
The Erie
Erie is the shallowest lake and the most productive — more fish per acre than any other. Fifteen dollars a month works the same way. Every bit of it goes to reporting.
The Huron
Huron has the longest shoreline of any Great Lake — over 3,800 miles of it. Thirty dollars a month gives our reporting that same kind of reach.
The Michigan
The only Great Lake entirely within our borders. Fifty dollars a month means more reporters covering more of Chelsea, Dexter, Saline, and Milan.
The Superior
The biggest, the deepest, the coldest. At this level, you're backing a newsroom that can plan ahead — hire freelancers, invest in longer investigations, and reach more readers.
One-time contribution
Not everyone can commit monthly — we get it. Every dollar helps keep reporters in the field and papers on doorsteps. Pick any amount at checkout.
Every town deserves a paper that shows up. Yours has one. Help it stay.
We cover the zoning votes, the planning commission meetings, the police blotter, the high school scores — the things that don’t make the Detroit papers but shape our neighborhood. We show up to the school board sessions and the ribbon cuttings. We write the story when your kid’s team wins districts and when a new shop opens on Main Street. If nobody writes it down, it didn’t happen. You keep us writing.
From every reporter, editor, photographer, and administrator at The Sun Times News — THANK YOU!
By the numbers
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140+
Years continuously publishing for Washtenaw County readers
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4
Communities covered every week — Chelsea, Dexter, Saline, Milan
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52
Issues a year, mailed free to every home in our coverage area
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1
Independent newsroom working for our neighborhoods
The Sun Times News is a community-owned weekly serving Chelsea, Dexter, Saline, Milan, and the surrounding areas of Ann Arbor, Pinckney, and Gregory. Contributions go directly to newsroom operations — reporting, editing, printing, and delivery.
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