“Okay, I was wrong last month, but this month really does look like the Fleming,” concurs Jacqueline Courteau, about the “Dow building that formerly housed U-M administration.” “As of August 27,” adds Ken Koral, it’s “entirely torn down.”
Read MoreI came across my breast cancer goody bag the other day. The surgeon’s scheduler gave it to me five years ago, after we reviewed the pre-op paperwork. You may wonder: “What goes into a breast cancer goody bag?” It’s kind of like,...
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Near downtown, in an area of mostly gentrified houses, is an old two-story house with a cornucopia...
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In 1882, Moses Fleetwood Walker led the U-M baseball team to a 10–3 season. The next year, he...
Read MoreQ: The purple canoe sculpture in Bandemer Park is gone! What happened to it? A: That’s “Tulip,” ten aluminum canoes standing vertically and meeting at a point in the middle. In 2020 a vehicle crashed into it, and creator Ray...
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“As amazed as I have been by the horrors my parents endured,” the U-M clinical psychologist adds,...
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One evening last September, my eight-year-old son and I stumbled into the rustic backyard of...
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Ed Erickson’s profile on the Strava fitness app is a love letter to cycling. He posted road-bike...
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An administrator hired on an eleven-month contract after two predecessors were forced out could be...
Read MoreQ. Why does campus have a Diag? Was it planned from the start? A. An 1854 map of campus shows a dozen university buildings placed on the edges of the campus, but no Diag. The pastoral campus interior was without trees, allowing...
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“Where do you live, ma’am?” the officer asked Kathy Hoos not long ago. “Scio Farms.” “You mean...
Read MoreWith the Supreme Court’s June reversal of Roe v. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion nationwide, existing state bans and restrictions went back into effect. Though Michigan, too, has an abortion ban on the books, courts...
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When Cox started here in September 2019, he was Ann Arbor’s fifth police chief in ten years. He...
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With the pandemic still simmering, it was a bold move by the Ann Arbor Area Transportation...
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When our cat Bureau died in the summer of 2020, I was relieved. A gorgeous, green-eyed, gray...
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In 2003, when my husband started freelancing, we lost our dental insurance. So we tried the U-M...
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Nehemiah Thomas, known to the children in Rachael Varga’s kindergarten class at Mitchell...
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Tucked between Washtenaw and Packard, the Pittsfield neighborhood has a small community feel that...
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I came to Ann Arbor in 1994 and, like so many first-year students, my first neighborhood was...
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