Community

A decade ago, at the height of the county’s housing frenzy, Bloomfield Hills-based Colt Farms applied to rezone 286 acres in Ann Arbor Township from agricultural use to a mobile home park. The panoramic vistas of the Braun...

In 1978, David E. Davis Jr. single-handedly made Ann Arbor a center of automotive publishing when he moved Car and Driver from Manhattan to an office in Pittsfield Township. By the time he quit eight years later, he’d...

In a “Big Year,” a birder chooses a geographical location, then tries to see as many species as possible during a calendar year. A variation on the concept is a Big Green Big Year, or BIGBY–seeing as many...

University of Michigan students Natalie Eliot (left), Evan Keimer, Jackie Brand, and Caitlin Kozak splashed barefoot in the flash flood pond that formed outside their house on South Fourth Avenue. Later they helped push...

The Elsifor family has been a part of Ann Arbor for more than one hundred years. My mother died five years ago in February; this June, she would have been seventy-four years old. She died suddenly, but we knew she wanted to be...

A book titled 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Ann Arbor, Michigan (But Are About to Find Out) arrived in town so casually it was almost as if author Horace Martin Woodhouse didn’t care whether anyone read it or not....

The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority has a vision for the future–but the present already looks pretty good compared to most places.After a yearlong process that included hiring a national consulting firm, conducting an...