2018 February Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

The Epidemic

Feb 28, 2018 | Community, Featured |

Ashton Marr, an elfin woman with a slicked-back Mohawk, is a former opioid addict. “I was a...

The New Workouts

Feb 28, 2018 | Community, Featured |

Steve Bemis, seventy, is a Webster Township farmer. “I live a physical life, and so I wanted...

Recycling at the Crossroads

Feb 27, 2018 | Featured, News |

“It wasn’t easy or pleasant,” says Ward Two’s Kirk Westphal on...

A Police Commission Is Coming

Feb 25, 2018 | News |

In November, a $200,000 outside study recommended that the city expand civilian oversight of the...

Q. I’m sixty-three, and I’ve grown up with water towers. Are they really still necessary? I can’t see how water towers would help us for long if we had a big water issue.A. The city’s two water towers are...

From Sell to Serve

Feb 23, 2018 | Marketplace |

“What is going on at M&Y?” asks a chalked message on a large wall in the backroom of Morgan & York. The answer: the longtime wine store and specialty grocer is trading its state license to sell bottled hard...

Little Free Pantry

Feb 22, 2018 | Community |

It’s not unusual to see people begging along Washtenaw Ave. at the US-23 exit to Ypsilanti....

Five Late-2017 Closings

Feb 21, 2018 | Marketplace |

One year after its originally scheduled departure, English Gardens has finally left Maple Village. President John Darin is clear about the terms of the exit: “We’re not leaving by our choice.” According to...

Tow Truck News

Feb 20, 2018 | Marketplace |

As usual, Brewer’s came out to jump-start the car, her friend Al Slote reports–but to...

Book Love

Feb 19, 2018 | Community, Profiles |

“We spent time bouncing the idea for a while that maybe we should start a business–and...

Thisbe Nissen

Feb 18, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Apparently, it took fourteen years for Thisbe Nissen to write her new novel, Our Lady of the...

Runaway Carts

Feb 17, 2018 | Marketplace |

Scattered at apartment complexes and bus stops, or orphaned in rivers, ditches and other outlying...

Deer Recovery Room

Feb 16, 2018 | Community |

When Taryn Gal said she’d help out with the city’s deer sterilization effort, she had...

The Blind Pig Sale, Cont.

Feb 15, 2018 | Marketplace |

“The sale officially took place on my fortieth birthday,” says Joe Malcoun. “I spent my fortieth birthday in a boardroom … signing the last documents then waiting in an office of the Michigan Liquor...