Last fall, two Chelsea teens died in a motorcycle crash, and a nineteen-year-old Chelsea resident later was charged with supplying them alcohol.It was the latest in a series of accidents involving area youths, vehicles, and...
Read More“Most people in our country would agree that you don’t go to a shelter and eat cats and dogs.”That’s how Amie Brockman, an animal caretaker at the Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary, reacts when asked about a...
Read MoreScott Berry began going to the art fairs in the 1970s, when he was in elementary school. He and his sister collected bottles while their father, John, sold jewelry from his booth on East University Avenue.”Back then you...
Read MoreFaced with a $26 million revenue shortfall over the next two years, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners voted in early June to cut its own $600,000 budget by 11 percent. But at first glance, even the new $534,000 figure...
Read MoreAnn Arborites are used to seeing Mark Braun, aka Mr. B, play piano on the street. He’s been a fixture at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original, since 1980, playing blues, jazz, and boogie-woogie piano—first at the...
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This morning, two men who were wrongfully convicted of attempted murder finally got the news they’d been waiting for years to hear. And the U-M Law School’s Innocence Clinic won a spectacular victory.On a Sunday...
Read MoreSigns by the front door of a home north of Washtenaw read, “The Rooster may crow but the hen delivers the goods” and “An Old Rooster and Young Chick live here.””Those are jokes,” says the man...
Read More“They have improved their chances no end by putting him in charge,” says Nicola Rooney.Rooney is the owner of Nicola’s Books in Westgate Shopping Center. Surprisingly, the person she’s praising is the new...
Read MoreJerry Colone tested trucks at the Chrysler Proving Grounds for thirty-four years. Now, he says, the huge complex southwest of Chelsea is “like a ghost town.”Employment at the grounds has fallen from 700 five years...
Read MoreIt’s a weekend night, and Ann Arbor police respond to a call about an agitated man expressing homicidal thoughts. When they get to the scene, though, they realize he’s doing nothing illegal—he’s made no...
Read MoreNaomi Spivak runs Matan Embroidery out of her house, designing and embroidering monograms and logos on fabric with her fifteen-needle industrial machine. So when she got a call from a woman asking if she could embroider some...
Read MoreHeritage Newspapers, which publishes the Saline Reporter, the Chelsea Standard, and other area papers, will debut its weekly A2 Journal on July 9, less than two weeks before AnnArbor.com ‘s July 20 launch. Heritage, whose...
Read MoreThe next time you are a hospital patient, don’t be afraid to ask your visitors to wash their hands before they sit down. And your nurse. Yes, and your doctor, too.That’s the word from Dr. Jim Bagian (pronounced...
Read MoreIn late May, a Boston lawyer and his client, in town for a few days of litigating, were standing in front of Bella Ciao. “These three restaurants,” he said, peering at a piece of paper in his hand. “Any one of...
Read More“We’re gonna get a little country on now,” warns Misty Lyn from the Blind Pig stage to a modest but engaged crowd. “It happens.”Country happens a lot with Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful. With...
Read MoreHannah Renken stands behind the counter at Saline’s newest cafe and gracefully demonstrates how to prepare the perfect cup of jasmine tea for her coworker, Kimberly Conn. “Mrs. Chang says to pour the water from high...
Read MoreOwner Janice Stevenson originally operated Wackenhut Gartens out of a twelve-by-eight garden shed on Liberty Road just west of Parker. While she didn’t have a drive-up window, she did offer curb service. “I literally...
Read MoreMatt Minard started working on computers when he was eight and his mother needed some help. Since 2003, he’s been repairing computers and game systems at his own store in the Clocktower Annex, Bulldog Computers. Now...
Read MoreRobin Warner sits just inside the door of the Pittsfield Grange Hall, a simple white clapboard building on Ann Arbor–Saline Road, collecting admission. Gray-haired and dressed in a plaid shirt and jeans, he pauses to chat with...
Read MoreJerry Colone tested trucks at the Chrysler Proving Grounds for thirty-four years. Now, he says, the huge complex southwest of Chelsea is “like a ghost town.”Employment at the grounds has fallen from 700 five years...
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