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4 Spots Around Town To Drop Your Christmas Tree Off

4 Spots Around Town To Drop Your Christmas Tree Off

January 13, 2025

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🎄 Christmas Tree Drop Off: Still have your Christmas tree up? Not sure what to do with it? The city of Ann Arbor has you covered. The city will accept used, undecorated trees through Monday, January 20th. Locations to drop off trees are below. Each location will accept trees from 6 AM to 10 PM.

Bicentennial Park (formerly Southeast Area Park) off Ellsworth Road. Trees may be left at the dirt lot north of the basketball courts.
West Park parking lot off Chapin Street near West Huron Street
Gallup Park boat launch parking lot off Geddes Road (not the Gallup canoe and kayak livery).
Olson Park parking lot at 1515 Dhu Varren Road, near Pontiac Trail

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📆 Things To Do: Here’s what’s going on this week (and next week)

This week: Detroit Auto Show at Huntington Place in Detroit (tickets are $20 each)
Saturday: Ypsi Bourbon Festival at the Michigan Firehouse Museum (tickets are $65 each)
Also Saturday: Dexter Ice Fest at Monument Park in Dexter (free to attend)
Next Weekend: Ann Arbor Folk Festival at Hill Auditorium (tickets start at $47.50)
Next Week: Ann Arbor Restaurant Week - more on this below.

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🍽️ Get Those Reservations Ready: Next week is Restaurant Week (the 19th - the 24th). To celebrate, restaurants across the city will offer a pre-fixed, 2-3 course, specialty-priced menu. To see what specials the 42 participating restaurants are offering, click here (and use the header menu to filter).

Beekman On Broadway

🏡 Medical District Living: Beekman on Broadway is the premier apartment community in Ann Arbor’s medical district, within walking distance to UMich Hospital, Kerrytown and Downtown. Offering studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans and extensive amenities including fitness centers, covered parking, a pool, media room, co-working space and a market on-site, Beekman offers the perfect blend of comfort and convenience.

Apartments are available to lease now for immediate availability and throughout summer 2025. Learn more at BeekmanOnBroadway.com.

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❄️ Snow Storm Parking: City Council just approved a new regulation that will ban street parking during some snow storms in an effort to clear snow more effectively. City officials are discussing making the first year of this policy an “educational year” without any ticketing or towing and eventually transitioning into enforcement and penalties. The city has not yet released the map of impacted streets.

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🍳 Riverview Cafe Closing: The Riverview Cafe in Dexter is saying “Goodbye for now.” The popular breakfast spot was opened by the Hoxha family 10 years ago. In a note Albana Hoxha wrote, “On behalf of the Hoxha family I want to thank all of the customers and the community for supporting us over the last decade…We will always appreciate the everlasting memories that were made at the Riverview cafe.” The reason for the close is “unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances” surrounding a lease dispute. The Hoxha family hopes to someday return to serving the Dexter community.

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🚗 Retro Plates: Expect to see more vintage license plates on the road soon. Starting in February, Michigan will offer a retro white-on-black license plate (originally issued from 1979 to 1983) and a white-on-blue Great Lakes plate (originally issued from 1983 to 2007). The state opted to reintroduce more vintage plates after the successful relaunch of the “Water-Winter Wonderland) plates in 2021.