I Spy Update | December 2022
This “is the mural on The Standard, the new apartment building on Main Street between Packard and...
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2021 December
Trouble in Scio Township
Scio Township differs from Ann Arbor in many ways. It’s less populous, with just over 20,000...
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The Bank that Grew
Stan Dickson’s family owes a lot to the First National Bank in Howell. During the...
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Catherine Badgley
Catherine Badgley became director of the U-M Residential College in the summer of 2019, just in...
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Bambu Opens
For two decades, Emily Shinohara enjoyed a flourishing career in the auto glass sector. But a trip...
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Home Appreciation Trends January 2022
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...
Read MoreAfter Surviving the Pandemic, the Cloverleaf Closes Its Doors
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...
Read MoreA Tiny Wine Store at Zingerman’s Southside
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...
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Dozer Coffee Joins the HOMES Taproom
For nearly two years, customers at HOMES Brewery’s “campus”—its production facility and tap room...
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Cannelle by Matt Knio and The Great Commoner
For more than a year, pedestrians on E. Washington St. strolled past a sign in the window of the...
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Post-draft Hockey
The U-M’s winter sports have been shrouded by the giant shadow of the Wolverine’s Big...
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Amazon in Pittsfield
For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...
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Hospital Overload
“Covid-19 is overrunning our hospitals,” Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall Runge warned...
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Paramedics Needed
HVA needs 185 paramedics and emergency medical technicians to fully staff its Washtenaw County...
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Brittney Spencer
The Ann Arbor Folk Festival celebrates well-loved favorites in the field of roots music, this year...
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Messiah Returns
“Hallelujah!” Barb Tester proclaims. “Yes, the ‘Messiah’ has...
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The Song Remains the Same
We received 122 entries correctly identifying the very difficult to find Fake Ad for “The...
Read MoreGelman Plume Moves East?
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...
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Defending Benedict Arnold
Stearns thinks that Arnold, the Revolutionary War general turned traitor, deserves historical...
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Drivers, Unite!
Webster is a senior VP of Hagerty, the classic-car-insurer-turned-automotive-lifestyle brand that...
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