When their schedules allow it, the family performs together as the Berofsky Piano Quartet. “They humor us,” jokes Kathryn about her children’s involvement. She would know—she also plays in a trio with her father and brother.
Maybe you’ve seen us practicing around Kerrytown or County Farm Park or Concourse Hall. “What are they doing with those sticks?” you might wonder.
Astronauts and other locals who contributed to the Apollo and Artemis missions.
This summer, the Humane Society of Huron Valley rescued 149 cats from four homes in Ann Arbor Twp., Ypsilanti, Manchester, and Northville. How does a household go from caring for a few animals to more than it can manage, and why can it be so difficult to ask for help?
UCMC founder and executive director Allyson Cohen envisions a world where “everyone has access to exceptional musical performances and feels included and valued in classical spaces.”
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Nineteen-year-old U-M student Selena Cooper and seventy-nine-year-old Mary Gliedt meet up most weeks to hang out and chat at Gliedt’s apartment at Brecon Village Senior Living. Over the past year, even though sixty years separate them in age, they’ve become friends.
Read MoreI live two miles from the Big House and on Friday night the sound from the [Morgan Wallen] concert was very clear and vivid. The next night, Saturday, I could hardly hear the concert from my home. Were they asked to turn the sound level down?
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Results from the 2025 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) show that 60 percent of Washtenaw County’s third-graders categorized as economically disadvantaged—including those who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, whose families receive food aid, and foster children, among other categories—scored in the lowest level for English Language Arts, compared with 26 percent of all students. Narrowing such disparities requires interventions with individual students that schools may not be equipped to handle on their own.
“Ever since becoming a parent, I have been thinking a lot about the purpose and value of culture in your life,” says Ma, “and how to intentionally bring Chinese culture into our family’s life.”
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Barb Schutzgruber weaves cloth as well as stories.
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Street preachers have sparked controversy at U-M—and on college campuses nationwide—for decades.
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Located just southwest of Packard and Platt, this neighborhood now has a mix of housing types and sizes, as well as varying yards and various dogs and a whole lot of trees (we’ve even got a magical little forest on our west side).
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When Stephanie Clark and Hans Fruechtenicht had their first child, Claire, they knew they wanted to move back home to Michigan. (The two had been living in Columbus, Ohio while Stephanie completed her residency.) In 2013, they both landed jobs with the U-M—he as a philanthropy researcher, she as a physician—and made the move to Ann Arbor’s Dicken neighborhood. The west-side wooded enclave stood out as a place where they could affordably raise their young family.
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Right on the Old West Side, beside Argus Farm Stop, stands a century-old industrial-style building overlooking the train tracks. Once a manufacturing facility, it was given a new life when it was converted into residential lofts in 2005. Its brick facade stands in quiet contrast to the colorful historic homes with porches, peaked roofs, and tree-lined yards that surround it. There was something about that unlikely pairing that felt oddly familiar.
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If someone tells you an island exists in Ann Arbor, you’d do well to believe them. This island sits boldly between rushing Carpenter to the west and trickling Golfside to the east, roaring Washtenaw Ave. to the north, and thrumming Packard to the south. The beating heart of this island is Carpenter Elementary, and what better heart might any island ask for than a place of discovery and learning, friendship, and a grand grassy space for play.
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House by the Side of the Road began in 1970 as a partnership between the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners and fifteen local churches that had been providing clothing and housewares for neighbors in need.
All five of Ann Arbor’s first female BSA Scouts have earned their Eagle rank.
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In 2022, neighbors Chris Wolff, Shannon Zager, and Dorothy Gotlib decided to throw a party across their three front yards. It seemed like a fun way to reconnect with their neighborhood after the pandemic, and Pomonapalooza was born.
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“Writing and art are the things that give me joy and give my life color and interest; things that I devote myself toward making and celebrating in so many ways,” says poet and educator Scott Beal. “So now I have a profession that allows that to be the central thing that my profession is built around. That’s really exciting. I like working with young people and getting energy from them, and hopefully giving some back.”
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Neither snow nor heat nor holidays stop players from showing up for weekly games organized by HAC Ultimate, which has been meeting regularly for forty years. Extreme cold, though, can be an obstacle. “At ten below zero,” says longtime member John Arkison, a disc that hits the ground “shatters—like porcelain.”
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