Cabbie Life
Years ago, while driving for Checker in Detroit, he dropped off a passenger at the downtown...
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Tracy Bennett
Tracy Bennett laughs when she remembers that she started college at the University of Southern...
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The Western Emigrant
To the pioneer settlers of Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor in 1829, a newspaper was much more than...
Read MoreHoliday Guide
It’s beginning to feel festive in Wash-tenaw County! From the bustling streets of downtown Ann Arbor, to the music, performances, and light shows throughout town, there is something to do all throughout the holiday season. You...
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A Crop of Mailboxes
For a couple of years in the early 1970s, I shared a small two-story house on Warner Rd., a dirt...
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Doing the Drop
As the Observer went to press, the U-M football program looked well positioned in its perennial...
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Attempted Murder?
On the morning of October 25, Sava Lelcaj Farah was attacked in her car in the parking lot behind...
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Boards and Judges
After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
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Regenerate! Orchestra
That’s how Regenerate! Orchestra leader Clay Gonzalez describes their music. “We take a pretty...
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Plays at Pathways
In his eleven years at CHS, Strassel taught acting and produced thirty-three shows for the...
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Christmas Tree Town
When Flatsnoots’ vintage 1951 Vagabond Airstream trailer pulled into the Arbor Farms parking lot...
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Scholars in Exile
Yurii Kaparulin had the first panic attack of his life on February 24. A Ukrainian historian of...
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Trial by Turkey
It was a beautiful sunswept day in June. My poodles and I were walking, as we often did, in Dow...
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712 N. Main St.
In 1952, after our parents’ divorce, my infant sister, Bonnie, and I went to live with my Uncle...
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Vernon Jensen’s Long Walk
“Someone should make a movie about Vernon Jensen’s war experiences!” declares Denise Frost. Frost...
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Helpers in Need
Ten Thousand Villages has seventeen retail locations and thirty-eight contract retail locations in...
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On Broadway
Johnnie Rush Jr. closed his corner barber shop and retired after forty-five years working out of...
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Building a Bike-Safe City
Christopher Becker was biking home from his job at the Ann Arbor District Library on August 24,...
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Annie Rubin
Annie Rubin was conflicted. It was 2018, and she was enrolling in Chicago Theological Seminary...
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