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Chelsea DDA meets Thursday morning, draft budget on agenda

The Chelsea Downtown Development Authority plans to discuss any available funds from the 2014-15 budget and discuss and adopt a draft FY 2015-16 operating budget of about $456,000, which includes $30,000 for planning, a streetscape project and funding of the … Read more

Chelsea Underground Art Gallery opens downtown

By Lisa Carolin Alison Mackie appreciates the arts and believes that the Chelsea community shares her enthusiasm. That’s why she opened the Chelsea Underground Art Gallery, which is located at 105 1/2 South Main St.. There is a vast art … Read more

Recent crime: antique table stolen

In this week’s Chelsea Police blotter, an antique table was stolen from the 100 block of Jackson Street sometime between the evening of April 9 and the next morning. For the full story, click here.

Three Yellow Door events planned this year

(Chelsea Update would like to thank Jane Pacheco for the information in this story.) Yellow Door is coming back, 3 times, in 2015. We are looking to add sponsors now, for the whole year and you can get your name … Read more

Chelsea Update Focus on Teachers: Laura Lutz

By Lisa Carolin Two of Chelsea High School teacher Laura Lutz‘s biggest enemies are apathy and disengagement. At least where her students are concerned, those are two things she tries to quash. “My goal is to help my students understand … Read more

Four Chelsea road projects planned, three this year

The Chelsea City Council approved the hiring of Midwestern Consulting of Ann Arbor as the city’s engineers for a number of upcoming roads projects at its meeting on Monday, April 6. Although the Ann Arbor firm was not the low … Read more

DNR reminder: Leave wildlife in the wild

(Chelsea Update would like to thank Katie Keen and Holly Vaughn for the information in this story.) With the arrival of spring, wild animals are giving birth and hatching the next generation of Michigan’s wildlife. Baby red foxes appeared in … Read more