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Photo of the Week: Detroit’s Renaissance Center

December 28, 2025 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Tall gray and silver building towers rise from a distance, in the foreground a paved path curves around a wetland area bordered by brown, dead stems of native plants.

I remember when the Renaissance Center (RenCen) was built in downtown Detroit in the 1970’s. The “city-within-a-city” urban renewal project along the Detroit River was the talk of our area when it opened in 1977.

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Photo of the Week: Letters to Santa

December 21, 2025 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

A brown mailbox decorated with a white label written in black script to Santa Claus at Santa Workshop in the North Pole. The mailbox is decorated with white and red poinsettiias, green holly leaves, as well as a green Christmas Tree postage stamp with a date of Dec 25th. The mailbox is open and the red, white, and green striped lid is filled with festive red and white foiled chocolate candy kisses that look like fuzzy red Santa hats with white fur on the edge.

For those readers who celebrate the Christmas holiday, have you sent your letter to Santa?

What I Found Interesting: December 17, 2025

December 17, 2025 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

A newly discovered interstellar comet makes it closest approach to Earth, a best-selling children’s author plans to release 50 new books, and the history of the first digital camera are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Photo of the Week: Detroit’s Renaissance Center

Photo of the Week: Letters to Santa

What I Found Interesting: December 17, 2025

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