My Neighborhood: Thurston
Robert Glassman remembers the year he met Jennie Lieberman: it was 2003, and soon they were...
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Community
My Neighborhood: Dicken
Vernon Downs, the 411-home subdivision on the city’s far west side south of Stadium and...
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The YMCA Child Development Center
“I love going under the sea!” declares one diminutive summer camper in the downtown...
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Huron River Renaissance
When my husband and I were first married in the mid-1960s, we often wandered down to Argo Park,...
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Testing the Waters
Lea Monaghan is a former environmental consultant, editorial assistant, and stay-at-home mom with...
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What’s in a Park?
My first memories of Vets Park are from the 1960s. It has a great sledding hill, and in elementary...
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Dress Up on Dexter
Could someone shed light on the red granite marker at their feet? What’s with the man on the...
Read MoreCumberland Ave. or Cumberland Dr.?
Q. My daughter lives on Cumberland in Ann Arbor and they recently received a letter from the USPS stating that mail could have sorting errors and delays if they don’t use the appropriate name which, according to the USPS,...
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New Direction
I thought that Jim Harbaugh had the pieces in place for a Big Ten championship run in 2019. But...
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Carlye Crisler
There’s a streak of blue on Carlye Crisler’s nose. The artist, seventy-one, has parked...
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Raising Funds to Raise Spirits.
The stars will be out (virtually) on September 3 for the second annual livestream fundraiser...
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Burns Park Butterflies
When serious health concerns forced environmental educator Lynda Asher to give up her work in the...
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Clinton School’s Second Act
From 1952 to 1964, the number of babies born in America topped four million every year. Ann Arbor,...
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606 E. Washington
August’s clue–once moved, soon razed–“helped solve the mystery,”...
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Writing Coach
So writes John U. Bacon in his new book, Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons from America’s...
Read MoreAn Internet Liaison?
Q. The city once had an Internet liaison, Harry Haas, who helped me with Comcast issues, but he is long gone. I see many complaints on NextDoor about Internet service. Will the city someday again have an Internet liaison?A....
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Raquel Arevalo
Raquel Arevalo recalls her mother waking her and her sisters up so early that “we’d be...
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Cascading Success
Back in the 2000s, the rowing clubs that practiced on Argo Pond helped defeat a plan to remove the...
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Farmland Funds
Nine Southeast Michigan land conservancies won the funds through the Lake Erie Conservation...
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