Transit’s Big Win
With the pandemic still simmering, it was a bold move by the Ann Arbor Area Transportation...
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Community
Searching for Cyd Charisse
When our cat Bureau died in the summer of 2020, I was relieved. A gorgeous, green-eyed, gray...
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The U-M Dental Clinic
In 2003, when my husband started freelancing, we lost our dental insurance. So we tried the U-M...
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Volunteering with Foster Grandparents
Nehemiah Thomas, known to the children in Rachael Varga’s kindergarten class at Mitchell...
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My Neighborhood: Pittsfield
Tucked between Washtenaw and Packard, the Pittsfield neighborhood has a small community feel that...
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My Neighborhood: Northside
I came to Ann Arbor in 1994 and, like so many first-year students, my first neighborhood was...
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My Neighborhood: Haisley
When my then-girlfriend, now wife, moved back to Michigan from Chicago in 2012, she immediately...
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My Neighborhood: Bach
I don’t know who planted the tulips that sprout each spring outside Bach Elementary School’s front...
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A Year at Matthaei
Summer: plein air painters and farmer’s tans Summer in the city can seem unrelenting, but on a...
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Dave Friedrichs
Dave Friedrichs is a man of dreams. Not of fast cars or extravagant luxuries, but of making...
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Citizen Scientists
At Greenview Nature Area, it could be a Peck’s skipper, one of more than fifty-two butterfly and...
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Fleming Farewell
At press time, the blocky, brown-brick building was surrounded by a high chain-link fence, and...
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Embracing Our Differences
When Nancy Margolis, retired executive director of the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County,...
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The Social Services Shake-Up
“I cannot imagine telling another young person to sleep outside,” Ozone House executive director...
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Marijuana Money
Being the dope capital of the Midwest finally pays off—in tax dollars. Of the state’s $150 million...
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The Lonely Death of Stadium Steve
A heavy rain was falling at 4 a.m. on March 30. Even with streetlights roughly every hundred feet...
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Ann Arbor Obscura
We recently discovered The Atlas Obscura Guide To Ann Arbor: 12 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things...
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Missing Trustee
“On Friday, a bulletin board taken over by the Youth Activism class that [we] are a part of was...
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Overdose Deaths Rise Again
As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...
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Class Gifts
It’s a tradition that goes back to the school’s first graduating class, in 2000: the five seniors...
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