A star builder sells his prototype for $1.25M: In 2004, up-and-coming developer-architect Tom Fitzsimmons bought a pre-WWII house at 637 N. Fourth Ave. for $299,000 and demolished it. In its place he put up a two-unit two-story Colonial-style duplex with ground-floor parking and garage elevators to each spacious, full-floor condo.
Read More“There is always so much going on around town this time of year! Can you help me figure out how to balance fun time with downtime?”
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On a windy evening in late October, I sat in the impressive Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom, with its vaulted ceilings, arched doorways, and dark, wood-paneled walls. The event? The 19th Annual Prechter Lecture, hosted by the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program, featuring keynote speaker Ellen Forney and moderated by program director Dr. Melvin McInnis.
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Construction is underway on Fire Station 4 at 2415 S. Huron Pkwy. The name of the new station is a nod to a pioneer: Mindy Kerr, Ann Arbor’s first female firefighter.
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Anne Gardner Remley, writer and social-justice activist, passed away on November 5 in Boulder, Colorado, after contending with a degenerative neurological condition for several months. She departed peacefully on a beautiful fall day as the full moon rose in the east.
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We remember and miss Paul on his eighty-eighth birthday. His kindness, wisdom, and gentle leadership of his family is in our hearts. We continue to live our lives honoring his memory with our love.
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Victor Hanin Rotberg, age seventy-nine, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, passed away peacefully on November 11, 2025.
Victor was born on May 8, 1946, in São Paulo, Brazil, to Abrahão Rotberg and Tobey (Thelma) Hanin Rotberg. He spent his early years in Brazil and also cherished a formative year living with his maternal grandparents in Brooklyn, New York.
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Cliff passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, November 8, 2025—of a tired heart.
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“Finally, I got the I Spy clue! It’s the old Le Dog location on Liberty [at] Thompson,” writes Linda Kentes. “They had that wonderful lobster bisque!” “I still miss walking a block from work to get soup” from the stand, notes Spencer Thomas.
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On a chilly mid-November Wednesday morning, volunteers from Food Gatherers assembled in a parking lot at Briarwood Mall, outside JCPenney. It was the second in a series of four hastily announced food distributions following a freeze in federal food benefits.
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On September 10, the U.S. Department of Education abruptly canceled all federal funding for International Education and Foreign Language Studies programs across the country, including the U-M Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).
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But there’s an imminent threat to promising mRNA research: massive cuts to the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed by President Trump, which researcher Nils Walter says “would really devastate the progress that can be made.”
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