Steve Sheldon primarily covers the performing arts for The Sun Times News, with additional focus on personal profile pieces and reporting in Saline Township. His writing highlights the people, creativity, and stories behind local arts organizations and community life, bringing depth and context to cultural coverage in the region.
The State of Michigan is noted by two names: “The Great Lakes State” and “The Automobile Capital of the World”. Director Jeff Daniels took a script written Richard Johnson, the former editor of Crains Communication’s Automotive News, the leading newspaper of the global automotive industry and provided the audience with a look at cars, dealerships ...
Though the weather outside was frightful, Thursday evening inside The Encore Theatre Musical Company, the audience was treated to some classic rock hits from the Bob Seger Tribute concert. Featuring Jason Briggs, Leah Gittlen, Ash Moran and Geoff Packard, they put their unique touches on classic Seger hits. The group was backed up by a ...
Singin’ In The Rain full cast. Photo by Lad Strayer. If you need proof of the adage “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” Croswell’s All-Area High School production “Singin’ in the Rain” provides it. A cast of thirty-two, from fourteen area high schools, including students from Adrian, Chelsea, Clinton, Saline, Monroe ...
At an overflow special meeting Wednesday evening, the Saline Township Board voted unanimously to rescind its earlier decision to rezone property tied to a proposed superscale data center from A-1 Agricultural to I-1 Industrial. The decision followed remarks from David Landry, the attorney representing the township in litigation filed by Related Digital and property owners ...
In a special meeting by the township board on Wednesday afternoon, Saline Fire Department chief Jason Sperle led a discussion about the fire department’s transition to becoming a fire authority. “In all practical purposes, the department has been operating like an authority but has not able to take advantage of the benefits of being an ...
Dominic Dorset, a 2018 graduate of Saline High School and a 2022 graduate from UM’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance (SMTD), will realize his lifelong dream when he steps onto the stage of The Palace Theatre, in the heart of Broadway, on Tuesday, April 28th, the official opening night for the general public of ...
Juniors and seniors from Ann Arbor’s four area high schools – Community, Huron, Pioneer and Skyline, auditioned via video tape, for the 24th Annual Future Stars extravaganza staged at the Schreiber Auditorium at Pioneer High School on Saturday, Jan. 17th. In the performance, there was something for everyone. Twenty-five students put on a concert for ...
A standing-room-only crowd filled Saline Township Hall this week as residents delivered pointed, and at times heated, public comments centered on opposition to the proposed digital data center, voicing what many described as a lack of local control over the final outcome, despite the township board having previously voted to deny the rezoning request. Related ...
The musical Frozen, a story that began with 2013 film from Walt Disney Animation Studios (based loosely on Hans Christian Anderson’s 1844 fairy tale, The Snow Queen) and then adapted to the stage with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and the script by Jennifer Lee, which premiered on Broadway in March ...
Wednesday evening, Dec. 3, the Saline Township Board and Planning Commission held a joint meeting to begin discussions of energy zoning regulation options and consideration of an event barn zoning ordinance. During the public comment portion of the meeting, several area residents rose to voice familiar concerns about the Related Digital data center project, asking ...
By Steven Sheldon & Warner Sheldon (Warner Sheldon is my 9-year old grandson who wanted to help write this review. After watching Spongebob – The Musical at AA Pioneer High School he asked, “grandpa, will you take me to more musicals with you? This is his first review. His comments are in italics.) The Croswell ...
First there was Walter Matheau and Jack Lemon. Then Jack Klugman and Tony Randall portraying the roles of Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. Well boys, meet Rileigh Stone and Agnes Gibner, Florence and Olive, in Milan High School’s production of Neil Simon’s classic comedy – “The Odd Couple” – Female Version. The story line is ...
Under the direction of Adrian High School’s Emily Gifford, the manager of the Julianne & George Argros Performing Arts Center, fifty-four actors opened the season with the Christopher Sergel play “The Outsiders,” based on the book by S.E. Hinton. The Outsiders looks at life in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma. The themes are all too familiar. All ...
The Saline High School Drama Club kicked off their 2025-26 theatrical season with the classic Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women, adapted to the stage by Marisha Chamberlain. Little Women was originally published in two volumes in 1868 & 1869. It made its Broadway debut in 1912. Saline High School graduate Alyssa Dawson made her ...
Photo: News media and residents prepare for a contentious board meeting in Saline Township. Photo by Steve Sheldon National news outlets had been tipped off that there would be “fireworks” at the Saline Township Board meeting on Nov. 12, and residents delivered. Long before the gavel struck, people filled the small township hall, ready to ...
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