Several years ago, a CAT scan revealed a cancerous 2.5-centimeter mass on the retired Ann Arbor elementary school teacher’s right lung. He says a biopsy revealed “a rare form of lung cancer called NUT carcinoma.” Surgeons removed a lobe in his right lung and thirteen lymph nodes.
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Alcindor runs the Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti (FSIL in French). With help from the Ann Arbor–based Haiti Nursing Foundation, she’s led it through hurricanes, earthquakes, Covid, and the country’s descent into political chaos since its president was assassinated three years ago. In that power vacuum, heavily armed gangs have kidnapped thousands of people and held them for ransom.
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Just before kick-off at the AFC Ann Arbor women’s May 19 soccer match against Kalamazoo FC at Pioneer High School’s Hollway Field, fifteen-year-old Izzy Sutton and two U-M students received formal recognition as female leaders and role models. Sutton, tall and athletic, was a 2023 Washtenaw County Young Citizen of the Year, and has won state and national service awards for her work, which has included raising money for bird and turtle rescue by selling her own line of notecards. Sutton has long called for eliminating single-use plastic water bottles at the Ann Arbor Public Schools, petitioning the school board and administration since fifth grade. Most end up in landfills and as trash in the environment.
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We received 130 entries correctly identifying the Fake Ad for Proletariat Bourbon on page 50 of the August Observer. Included among those was this one from Elena Chagnovich: “My dad, an avid bourbon drinker, spotted it from across the kitchen table. At first glance, he thought it was an ad for Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon, since the bottle was the same shape and had an animal on the cork. However, he quickly realized this was a sham!”
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Antracoli works nearby in a neat and spacious office. Friendly, direct, and even-toned, the director, forty-eight, does not wear her ambitions on her sleeve, but she’s focused and passionate about her goals. The most important, she says, is “to create a more inclusive collection.”
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“I spy the Ann Arbor Art Center’s ‘Urban-Fetti’ alley art installation,” writes Alandra Meade. It’s “on the alley wall of the Alley Bar at 112 W. Liberty Street,” adds Eric Sobocinski, and Joe Cialdella notes that it’s behind Pretzel Bell. “This mural literally cascades off the wall to the alley pavement,” says Ginny Weingate, citing the clue. “I like how the mural stretches down to the ground,” says Shannon Kohlitz, “although I wish it could get touched up!”
Read MoreSchool construction program buys three lots, Veridian sells its first three units, and a rebuild sells for more than three times its purchase price.
Read MoreAs anyone who has seen Miss Firecracker knows, the government used to hire people to scrape dead animals off the roads. And as anyone who has driven down US-23 lately knows, it doesn’t anymore. When did they stop?
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Russ told Sam and Ray that they shared something rare: both owned a vintage Toyota FJ Cruiser. Furthermore, Russ had just opened his July–August Car and Driver and found the full-page “What to Buy” column at the end, extolling the 2007–2014 FJ Cruiser.
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What follows is an imaginary itinerary across the continents, all within greater Ann Arbor. Whether in search of the familiar favorites that constitute our own version of soul food, or an adventure into ever-widening horizons, it can be found here, and without the jet lag.
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Pet Pals, a grassroots group of five volunteers, helps unhoused and housing-insecure people care for their pets by providing pet food, litter, and other supplies, as well as spay/neuter vouchers, hotel rooms during extreme weather, and other support.
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“I have the best of both worlds,” she says. “It feels like I’m in the country, but I’m close to downtown and the Old West Side.”
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Earlier this year, Kimberly Baker Crouch’s family sold the house on N. Fourth Ave. that five generations of Bakers had called home, and she and her niece Brianna Murphy moved to an apartment on Ann Arbor’s northeast side.
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When Marta Dabis first visited Great Oak Cohousing, she says, “I immediately knew that I had arrived home.” A Hungarian native and Zen Buddhist priest, Dabis says her neighborhood, where she’s lived since 2017, “feels like Europe inside,” with its colorful buildings clustered close together, community gardens, walking paths, and residents who know each other by name.
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As one of the “Morton Moms,” Erika Boehnke can count on getting at least ten texts a day—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. The Morton Moms, eight women who all live within a block on Morton Ave. in Burns Park, depend on each other to help out when life happens .
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Many Washtenaw County towns were founded during a land rush following the defeat of the Midwest’s Indigenous inhabitants and construction of the Erie Canal.
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Since 1975, a Christian cross and a Star of David have stood side by side before a single building—the one that both St. Clare’s Episcopal Church and Temple Beth Emeth call home.
Read MoreA $150,000 sale on Hemlock Dr., Dusty May’s $2.2M Barton Hills pad, and a big month for $1M+ sales, sort of.
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Ron Warhurst was a U-M coach for thirty-six years—cross-country and track. He was Big Ten coach of the year four times, won nine conference championships, and coached 129 All-Americans, multiple Olympians, and a winner of the Boston Marathon.
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