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Elena Wakeman has a husband, two kids, and a full-time job as a legal assistant. On any given day, especially in the spring, she’s also looking after anywhere from two to twenty injured or orphaned squirrels.Warm and...

“It’s not every day you have an opportunity to hack a government computer without going to jail,” says U-M prof Alex Halderman.And it’s not every day an academic paper makes news around the world. But the...

Since John Weise and Stephanie Bentley started selling books, CDs, and DVDs on consignment almost seven years ago, they’ve processed more than 400,000 items, about 85 percent of them books.”One thing that’s...

Like almost everybody else under age twenty, Eva Hattie Schueler has read the Hunger Games trilogy. “I read them all in the last three or four months,” says the Community High School junior, “once all the way...

“I bike every day if it’s a nice day,” says Marilee Sturtevant, manager of the Red Hawk Bar & Grill on State St. “I need a place to park my bike, and the nice thing about the Maynard St. parking...

While a tornado was destroying homes in Dexter on March 15, builder Ken Trever and a worker were just a few miles away, in the garage of an unfinished home in the Polo Fields subdivision. When the worker’s wife called...

My mother grew up in a converted barn on Butternut Street in what used to be called East Ann Arbor. She had five sisters and a brother, Lewie, who hit his head and drowned in Malletts Creek when he was ten years old.Mom was an...

It’s lunchtime at Huron High School, and a couple dozen students have gathered in teacher Ken Long’s room for chess club. Sophomore Atulya (pronounced ah-thul-ya) Shetty, sixteen, sets up his board to play...

“The problem now is with our software upgrades,” says Ann Arbor Public Schools spokeswoman Liz Margolis. “These computers don’t support the new software.”The AAPS has 8,000 or so computers, mostly...

“I recognize that tooth!” writes Linda Sattler of April’s feature. “It’s near our house.” “It was quite clever as they were sculpting” it, adds Cherry Westerman, while Linda...

We’re changing the rules on you, Fake Adders.Many years ago, we decided to use the Fake Ad contest to promote the Observer’s website, arborweb.com. By using “Arborweb” as the secret word in every Fake Ad,...

Q: What is the screaming yellow unfinished building visible from westbound I-94 between the State St. and Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. exits, and what is its status? I’m curious, but not curious enough to get off the freeway...