Jim Magyar
At 7:10 in the morning, Jim Magyar sits at the counter at the Dexter Riverview Café. As the staff...
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Real Estate
From Nepal, With Love
Curt Winans describes his wife Menuka as “a magnet” for people. When she moved to Chelsea in 2016...
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New Dorms at Last
In February 2022, the regents voted to build a 1,200-bed dorm on North Campus. Less than ten...
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Preserving Scio
“When I decided to move to America, my dream was to own a farm that would hand-raise free-range,...
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Rise and Fall
It was the billion-dollar company that most Ann Arborites had never heard of. With offices on...
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Decarbonizing Bryant
CAN executive director Derrick Miller says their goal is for everyone in the area around Bryant...
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On Broadway
Johnnie Rush Jr. closed his corner barber shop and retired after forty-five years working out of...
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The Pink House on Henry St.
What they thought as newlyweds would be their starter house—a charming pastel-pink Victorian with...
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Mike and Caryl Burke
Mike and Caryl Burke met in a U-M physics class in 1971. Sparks flew, and they were married at...
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Susan and Palmer Morrel-Samuels
“It’s the kind of neighborhood that draws people out,” Susan Morrel-Samuels says over coffee in...
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Building at Last
“There had been a few different times where it was under contract but then fell through for one...
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My Neighborhood: Pittsfield
Tucked between Washtenaw and Packard, the Pittsfield neighborhood has a small community feel that...
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My Neighborhood: Northside
I came to Ann Arbor in 1994 and, like so many first-year students, my first neighborhood was...
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My Neighborhood: Haisley
When my then-girlfriend, now wife, moved back to Michigan from Chicago in 2012, she immediately...
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My Neighborhood: Bach
I don’t know who planted the tulips that sprout each spring outside Bach Elementary School’s front...
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Broadway Block
Northside Grill owner Jim Koli has seen a lot of changes in his neighborhood since he opened...
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My Chelsea Neighborhood
“It is a surprise even to folks who live in Chelsea,” Jennifer Kundak emails of the forty-five or...
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My Dexter Neighborhood
When Katherine Becker was a teenager, her family moved to a house off North Territorial Rd. It was...
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Berm House
Jim and Becky Cavnar built an “earth-sheltered” home on Miner St. in 1981, the same year that...
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