The Plastic Bag Store
Imagine walking into a space that looks like a modern grocery store—except that everything there...
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News
Question Corner | January 2023
Q. What is the background to the memorial for Edward Lorraine Walter in the U-M Grad Library? The inscription on the stained-glass window reads “Lost at Sea.” A. Walter was a U-M professor of languages, born in Litchfield,...
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Destination Ann Arbor
For twenty-seven years, Kerr’s work was attracting meetings and tourists to Washtenaw County. An...
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Cabbie Life
Years ago, while driving for Checker in Detroit, he dropped off a passenger at the downtown...
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Trial by Fire
It wasn’t to be. Kim is co-owner with her husband Kurt of Ann Arbor Muffler Brakes and Shocks on...
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Back to the Farm
While farm-to-table has become an important movement in restaurants, Tonya and Rich Lockwood are...
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(Bed Bath &) Beyond a Praying Mantis
Part One. I needed some things at home, and thought that Bed Bath & Beyond could solve all my...
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The Metamorphosis of 212 S. State
A year ago, 212 S. State was a vacant lot. Hidden away behind Sava’s restaurant, it was accessible...
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Playing the Academic Game
Playing the academic game: The life of an academic can be difficult. There’s the challenge of...
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Robots Roll at Palm Palace
Plagued by post-pandemic staffing shortages, Palm Palace has found an oddball solution that might...
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Doing the Drop
As the Observer went to press, the U-M football program looked well positioned in its perennial...
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Basketball prospects
After struggling through a 19–15 season, Juwan Howard’s U-M men’s basketball team pulled it...
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Boards and Judges
After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | December 2022
Q. What will the City of Ann Arbor do if the “Gelman Plume” contaminates Barton Pond? Is there an alternative source of water? A. This fiscal year the city will install two “sentinel wells” to watch for the plume approaching...
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Plays at Pathways
In his eleven years at CHS, Strassel taught acting and produced thirty-three shows for the...
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Christmas Tree Town
When Flatsnoots’ vintage 1951 Vagabond Airstream trailer pulled into the Arbor Farms parking lot...
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Dingell’s View
Interviewed two weeks before the election, “the mob mentality” topped Debbie Dingell’s list of...
Read MoreDems Dominate
“It’s a beautiful day,” says Ann Arbor state senator Jeff Irwin two days after Michigan Democrats won the executive, legislative, and judicial state elections on November 8. “We have a whole new set of opportunities to make our...
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Guest Artists
Everyone knows the happy ending: At the Big House on October 15, the Michigan Wolverines...
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