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John Wagner is a man on a mission. “My ultimate goal is to gain popular recognition for Nikola Tesla,” says the retired Dexter teacher. “I know I’ll never achieve it.”He may not. Tesla, the...

At rush hour the railroad underpass in Dexter turns into a bottleneck, as people who live north of the village come and go on their daily commute. Many of them live in lake homes, either converted cottages or new houses, on the...

“There was no money for payroll,” Amy Rolfes recalls.In November 2008, Rolfes was a part-time reading consultant at the Family Learning Institute, a free reading program for students in local elementary schools. Then...

The mother mallard waddled right across the storm sewer grating, but her eight tiny, just-hatched babies slipped through the bars.Sue–not her real name–had just turned into Oak Valley Centre, on her way to meet a...

Q: When Fifth Avenue reopened after construction of the underground parking garage, the post office reversed the path of its drop-off drive. Now one has to go past the drop-off area, then turn in counter to the flow of Fifth...

More than fifty years after surrendering her son for adoption, Judy Wirth will remember him on May 11.When her son was born out of wedlock in 1960, Wirth was told to forget about his birth and get on with her life. But like most...

Dick Gordon, host of NPR’s “The Story,” is based in Chapel Hill, but his path to Ann Arbor this month passed through Haiti. Last year, for a follow-up story on the deadly 2010 earthquake, Gordon went to the...

April’s “I Spy is above The Ravens Club,” writes Dan Romanchik–“the top level of the building at 207 S. Main Street,” adds Sarah Schaefer. “At first I thought you were going for the...

“This month’s Fake Ad is on page 78 and is ostensibly for a law firm,” wrote Tom Weeks in his entry last month. “In fact, you adroitly hid last month’s winner’s name in the name of the firm:...

First came composer William Walton’s Spitfire, an orchestral evocation of the British WWII fighter plane. Then came Bohuslav Martin’s Thunderbolt P-47, which gave an American fighter its musical due. And now...