2021 December Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

The Bank that Grew

Dec 20, 2021 | Business, Featured, News |

Stan Dickson’s family owes a lot to the First National Bank in Howell. During the...

Trouble in Scio Township

Dec 20, 2021 | Featured, Government, News |

Scio Township differs from Ann Arbor in many ways. It’s less populous, with just over 20,000...

Catherine Badgley

Dec 19, 2021 | Community, Profiles |

Catherine Badgley became director of the U-M Residential College in the summer of 2019, just in...

After Surviving the Pandemic, the Cloverleaf Closes Its Doors

Dec 17, 2021 | Marketplace |

The Cloverleaf Restaurant lasted more than fifty years between two different locations—the original spot on Plymouth now occupied by the Northside Grill, and its subsequent setting on Liberty that was previously home to Mallis...

Home Appreciation Trends

Dec 17, 2021 | Real Estate |

Home appreciation in Washtenaw County mirrors national trends. According to information from the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors, the median price for a single-family home in the county in the first eleven months of 2021 was...

Hospital Overload

Dec 17, 2021 | Health, News |

“Covid-19 is overrunning our hospitals,” Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall Runge warned...

Amazon in Pittsfield

Dec 17, 2021 | Business, Government, Real Estate |

For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...

Post-draft Hockey

Dec 17, 2021 | Education, Sports |

The U-M’s winter sports have been shrouded by the giant shadow of the Wolverine’s Big...

Bambu Opens

Dec 17, 2021 | Marketplace |

For two decades, Emily Shinohara enjoyed a flourishing career in the auto glass sector. But a trip...

Cannelle by Matt Knio and The Great Commoner

Dec 17, 2021 | Marketplace |

For more than a year, pedestrians on E. Washington St. strolled past a sign in the window of the...

Dozer Coffee Joins the HOMES Taproom

Dec 17, 2021 | Marketplace |

For nearly two years, customers at HOMES Brewery’s “campus”—its production facility and tap room...

A Tiny Wine Store at Zingerman’s Southside

Dec 17, 2021 | Marketplace |

Sharp-eyed drivers on Ellsworth Rd. last month may have spotted bright red lawn signs reading “Wine Is Just Around the Corner,” with an arrow pointing to Phoenix Dr. The signs lead to an entrance at Zingerman’s Mail Order, where...

Paramedics Needed

Dec 16, 2021 | Health, Nonprofits |

HVA needs 185 paramedics and emergency medical technicians to fully staff its Washtenaw County...

Drivers, Unite!

Dec 16, 2021 | Business |

Webster is a senior VP of Hagerty, the classic-car-insurer-turned-automotive-lifestyle brand that...

Defending Benedict Arnold

Dec 16, 2021 | Culture |

Stearns thinks that Arnold, the Revolutionary War general turned traitor, deserves historical...

Gelman Plume Moves East?

Dec 16, 2021 | Environment, Government |

Q. Why does the Gelman Plume move steadily eastward? I would expect a liquid to disperse in all directions.A. Ann Arbor water treatment plant manager Brian Steglitz explains: “Just like a river, groundwater has a gradient...