Canceling Summer
For the first time since 1984, there will be no Ann Arbor Summer Festival. No big-name national...
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2020 June
Feeding Students and Covid Survivors
Summer is the hungriest time of year for many children and teens. There are an estimated 5,300...
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Riverside Arts Center Turns to Online Art to Bring People Together
Since it opened in 1995, the Riverside Arts Center (RAC) has been using the arts as a way to bring...
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Pride Reimagined
The landscape of LGBT Ann Arbor has changed considerably in recent years. Local gay and lesbian...
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The Survivors
By mid-May, the Washtenaw County Health Department had recorded 1,235 lab-confirmed cases of...
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The Reinvention of a Therapist
“Real is how I do things,” therapist Jo Benson writes on her website,...
Read MoreDaffodil Installation?
Q. Remember that local artist’s daffodil installation in the Arb a number of years ago? Who did that, and where have all the daffodils gone?A. Susan Skarsgard called it “Imagine/Align.” In October 2003, she...
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Pandemic Weddings
They chose May 2, 2020. “I like to plan things, and I’m a perfectionist,” Gordon...
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Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Among the avian neighbors who regularly dine at our backyard feeders, the male red-bellied...
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The Show Goes On, Virtually
Shakespeare in the Arb, a collaboration between U-M’s Residential College and the Nichols...
Read MoreFear of Calling
Breckenridge, HVA’s spokesperson, emails that “overall, 9-1-1 call volume is down about 35 percent.” The same pattern plays out at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital’s emergency department. Within weeks of the...
Read MoreCaffeinated Computers
“When it was actually called a pandemic by the CDC, we had three [calls] the very next week–two on the same day, one the next day,” says Alex Kaufman, a technician at Computer Alley on Jackson Rd. “One...
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The Farmers Market Is Back
On a mid-June Saturday, the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market looked something like it always did...
Read MoreReaching Out
After forwarding a variety of news stories to a friend in Las Vegas on January 21, as an afterthought I texted, “Watch this Wuhan, China event, they’ve shut down a city of over 50 million people. Imagine if that...
Read MoreBudget Impact
Before the pandemic, Tom Crawford, the city’s chief financial officer and acting administrator, predicted a 3.6 percent increase in recurring general fund revenue and 3.8 percent increase in property taxes in the fiscal...
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Positivity Posters
“We wanted to spread some cheer,” says Valerie Molloy about the poster project she and...
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Rowing Alone
Missing athletics this spring has been hard on students and coaches alike. Skyline High School...
Read MoreFor the first time in its history, the Shelter Association has no one on its wait list
The Shelter Association of Washtenaw County never closed during the Covid-19 shutdown. Instead, it’s expanded its reach since the onset of the pandemic. This time of year, the Delonis Center’s waitlist is usually...
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Anne Curzan
“I actually was going to be a veterinarian,” says Anne Curzan, the dean of the...
Read MoreState St. Wheat
Late last year, before the pandemic rearranged our lives–and many of our eating habits–Zingerman’s Bakehouse introduced a new bread, one with a mission. Called State St. Wheat, the Bakehouse developed it as...
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