It can’t always be someone else’s responsibility. That steadfast belief is what has pushed 10 years of ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day. Each year more and more people jump on the bandwagon to work to make life in Detroit something envied by the rest of the world. An army of thousands of volunteers, backed by hundreds […]
Detroit’s neighborhoods are the window into the city. Now that window will be filled with more green parks and views of children playing on playgrounds. It’s all made possible under an $11.7 million plan just laid out by Mayor Mike Duggan and City Parks & Recreation Department officials. It’s found money. In his budget address earlier […]
Susan Newell’s been fighting the good fight. A self-described “child of the ‘60’s,” an era when personal values often clashed with society’s agenda, the Three Mile Block Club president values few things more than her community. So it comes as little surprise to those who’ve known her that, even as a senior, Newell stays at […]