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Seeing more deer lately?My Newport Road place has a doe and two fawns, who ate all my hostas, roses, and lilies; the Arboretum houses a herd of six to ten, foraging away trilliums and rubbing the bark off trees; fifteen marched...

It was obvious at the beginning what Zack Novak and Stu Douglass were not.They were not highly recruited. Neither was big, fast, or particularly athletic for his position. They were not going to play in the NBA.They were...

The Ann Arbor Women’s City Club was founded in 1951 out of necessity: the crush of students at the U-M after World War II had made it difficult for women’s groups to find meeting space at the university. “There...

Q: There’s an old wooden warehouse on Ashley near Madison that has loading doors on its second floor. How did they get stuff up there?A: The warehouse was built after WWII by Gill Lumber. The ­company had its own railroad...

As Evelyn Neuhaus sits in a coffee shop talking about her latest film project, her wheelchair is hardly visible behind the table–and she seems to prefer it that way. “It changes the way a person is perceived in the...

Bob DeBona writes that his whole family loves “searching for the I Spy around town.” In December, it led them to “one of the entrances” of a new U-M building.Michael Ferguson identifies it as “South...

Jammed meters are viewed as a lucky break by local drivers who figure they’ll enjoy a free hour or so of parking until the city repairs the machines. Turns out the problem is usually not mechanical but the gleeful mischief...

Eight years ago, a friend introduced me to the pleasures of “geocaching”–essentially modern-day treasure hunting with a high-tech twist. He was visiting my northern Michigan cottage when he mentioned it, and I...

“We first thought about a book, and then a friend of mine said, ‘Why don’t you try a calendar?'” recalls Shirley Beckley. Thus evolved the “History of Ann Arbor’s Black Community,” now...

There are ten houses on Minerva, fourteen if you count corner houses facing other streets. Just one block long, it runs between S. Forest, where there are mainly student rentals, and Olivia, whose houses are mostly family owned....