Raquel Arevalo
Raquel Arevalo recalls her mother waking her and her sisters up so early that “we’d be...
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Melissa Schacht
On a picture-perfect morning in June, bees buzz, birds nest, and a massive lawn mower gives the...
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Sharon Gillespie
At the corner of N. Fourth Ave. and Beakes, Sharon Gillespie is dancing. While an Observer...
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Ryan Padgett
For several years, early on any Saturday morning between April and November, Ryan Padgett could be...
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Jimena Loveluck
Jimena Loveluck was only a few months into her new job as ‘Washtenaw County’s health...
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Mary Jean Raab
Mary Jean Raab was plenty busy in 2016 when her uncle Doug Raab told her he needed help at the...
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It’s hard to keep up with Jatin Dua. Polite and upbeat, he first showed up in Ann Arbor in 2014 as an assistant professor of anthropology at the U-M. Before that, he spent his childhood in India and California, completed...
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Diane Winner
When Diane Winner, fifty-two, prepared to deadlift 360 pounds at the World Powerlifting Congress...
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Siân Owen-Cruise
At two o’clock on Friday, November 6, Sian Owen-Cruise learned that a seventh grader in the...
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Stephen Joy
“I spent quite a while not thinking I had Covid,” Stephen Joy remembers. On March 19,...
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Marie Klopf
What would motivate a successful, techy sort of businesswoman to throw over money, power, and...
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Chris Kolb
Soon after Gretchen Whitmer was elected governor two years ago, Chris Kolb heard that he might be...
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Jim and Jack Briegel
When Jack Briegel was a young boy, he’d watch for his father walking home from work. They...
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Biostatistician Bhramar Mukherjee
“I’m the black sheep of my family, the outlier,” Bhramar Mukherjee says,...
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Anne Curzan
“I actually was going to be a veterinarian,” says Anne Curzan, the dean of the...
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Susan Ringler-Cerniglia
Susan Ringler-Cerniglia is the storm tracker for the Covid-19 pandemic in Washtenaw County. As...
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Missy Stults
Missy Stults seems to be everywhere these days. The person leading Ann Arbor’s ambitious...
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Susan McDowell
“I won’t sugarcoat it—it’s an aggressive sport,” says Susan McDowell....
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Joe Linstroth
In 1998, Joe Linstroth graduated from the U-M with a degree in history, test scores that would get...
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