John’s Side Job
To look at John Swider behind the counter at the Goodyear store on W. Stadium, you’d never guess...
Read MoreIt’s a quiet Friday afternoon in January on the fourth floor of the County Annex on N. Fourth Ave....
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The Oct. 31 closure of Ulrich’s Bookstore ended an eighty-eight-year run as a campus-area...
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Imagine walking into a space that looks like a modern grocery store—except that everything there...
Read MoreQ. 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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Designed by the same architect as the First National Bank building around the corner, the store...
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For twenty-seven years, Kerr’s work was attracting meetings and tourists to Washtenaw County. An...
Read MoreYears ago, while driving for Checker in Detroit, he dropped off a passenger at the downtown...
Read MoreIt wasn’t to be. Kim is co-owner with her husband Kurt of Ann Arbor Muffler Brakes and Shocks on...
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While farm-to-table has become an important movement in restaurants, Tonya and Rich Lockwood are...
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Part One. I needed some things at home, and thought that Bed Bath & Beyond could solve all my...
Read MorePlaying the academic game: The life of an academic can be difficult. There’s the challenge of...
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Plagued by post-pandemic staffing shortages, Palm Palace has found an oddball solution that might...
Read MoreAs the Observer went to press, the U-M football program looked well positioned in its perennial...
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After struggling through a 19–15 season, Juwan Howard’s U-M men’s basketball team pulled it...
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After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
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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...
Read MoreWhen Flatsnoots’ vintage 1951 Vagabond Airstream trailer pulled into the Arbor Farms parking lot...
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