Cabbie Life
Years ago, while driving for Checker in Detroit, he dropped off a passenger at the downtown...
Read MoreYears ago, while driving for Checker in Detroit, he dropped off a passenger at the downtown...
Read MoreTracy Bennett laughs when she remembers that she started college at the University of Southern...
Read MoreDec 23, 2022 | Community |
To the pioneer settlers of Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor in 1829, a newspaper was much more than...
Read MoreDec 1, 2022 | Community |
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...
Read MoreNov 22, 2022 | My Town |
For a couple of years in the early 1970s, I shared a small two-story house on Warner Rd., a dirt...
Read MoreAs the Observer went to press, the U-M football program looked well positioned in its perennial...
Read MoreNov 22, 2022 | Community |
On the morning of October 25, Sava Lelcaj Farah was attacked in her car in the parking lot behind...
Read MoreNov 22, 2022 | Education, Government, News, Nonprofits |
After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
Read MoreThat’s how Regenerate! Orchestra leader Clay Gonzalez describes their music. “We take a pretty...
Read MoreWhen Flatsnoots’ vintage 1951 Vagabond Airstream trailer pulled into the Arbor Farms parking lot...
Read MoreYurii Kaparulin had the first panic attack of his life on February 24. A Ukrainian historian of...
Read MoreIt was a beautiful sunswept day in June. My poodles and I were walking, as we often did, in Dow...
Read MoreOct 25, 2022 | My Town |
In 1952, after our parents’ divorce, my infant sister, Bonnie, and I went to live with my Uncle...
Read MoreOct 25, 2022 | My Town |
“Someone should make a movie about Vernon Jensen’s war experiences!” declares Denise Frost. Frost...
Read MoreOct 25, 2022 | Business, Nonprofits |
Ten Thousand Villages has seventeen retail locations and thirty-eight contract retail locations in...
Read MoreOct 25, 2022 | Business, Community, Marketplace, Real Estate |
Johnnie Rush Jr. closed his corner barber shop and retired after forty-five years working out of...
Read MoreOct 25, 2022 | Community, Environment, Featured, Government |
Christopher Becker was biking home from his job at the Ann Arbor District Library on August 24,...
Read MoreOct 25, 2022 | Profiles |
Annie Rubin was conflicted. It was 2018, and she was enrolling in Chicago Theological Seminary...
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