The Adrian City Commission has both an opportunity and a dilemma. The opportunity is in the form of $100,000 that District Court Judge Laura Schaedler ordered Crimson Holdings to pay into a fund for the benefit of residents who have been affected by the noxious sulfurous smell coming from its plant on East Maumee Street.
Three new studios are now up and running at the Adrian Center for the Arts, the result of a renovation that transformed a row of old garages into a place for creativity.
The intersecting schedules of two different programs at the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian led to an unusual event in February: for one week, there were 27 artisans building 27 handmade Windsor chairs in the same building.
A plan to add an officer to the Adrian Police Department, made possible by an increase in state funding, was presented to the Adrian City Commission at its July 6 meeting.
When Darcy Gifford sat down to write a children’s book, she knew only a few things. She wanted to try a different kind of writing. She wanted the main character to be a bird. And she thought it might be funny if that bird could not make a sound.
