The Concordia Curveball
There were at least two reasons why U-M’s $60 million deal to buy Concordia University’s Geddes Rd. campus rankled city hall.
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May 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
One house is a ten; another was owned for a century; and a third is ready for anything.
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The Hottest Seat on Campus
In April, the community was shaken when the regents’ choice for president, Kent Syverud, announced he would not take office due to a cancer diagnosis. He had been scheduled to assume the job on May 11. For now, interim president Domenico Grasso continues to lead U-M’s 68,000 students across the three campuses and about 50,000 faculty and staff at the university and hospital.
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A People’s History of Art Fair Bingo
Like many beloved cultural institutions, Art Fair inspires a mix of appreciation, vigilance, irritation, dread, and anticipation from those lucky enough to have experienced it. Certain things have a tendency to repeat. Patterns emerge. So naturally, the event lends itself well to that storied pattern-noticing game, bingo.
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July 2026 Contributors
Dave Algase has reported on more than 400 local businesses since returning to community journalism...
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Political Ambitions, Made in Ann Arbor
Ann Arborites Eli Savit and Abdul El-Sayed say their campaigns are steeped in what they have experienced here, whether as a schoolchild, like Savit, or in formative college years, as in El-Sayed’s case.
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Waiting for the Medicine to Kick In
In June 2025, Michigan Medicine opened the doors of the Ypsilanti Health Center at 300 W. Michigan Ave. with a mission that was twofold: to improve health outcomes and the social determinants of health in a city that has long trailed Ann Arbor in both.
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Does This Landfill Project Pass the Sniff Test?
Jenna and Jim Tenzillo moved to Northville Township from Ann Arbor to shorten their commutes, but the move came with a trade-off: the smell of the Arbor Hills landfill, located just across the county line in Salem Township.
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People Come and Go, but the Piano’s Always Grand
For more than twenty years, a group calling itself We Love a Piano, named for the Irving Berlin song from the Broadway revue Stop! Look! Listen!, has held monthly meetings at the homes of members who own grand pianos.
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Beyond Roommates
Sarah Russman’s daughter will leave their home in Ann Arbor this fall to embark on her freshman year of college and the new experience of shared living in a dorm room. Meanwhile, Russman is themself getting ready for a new shared-living experience, under a program that aims to address housing affordability and the challenges for older adults living alone.
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Jan Barney Newman
Jan Barney Newman, wife, mother, educator, and entrepreneur, passed away peacefully on April 9, 2026, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jan was born August 9, 1938 and spent her early years in the small town of Anadarko, Oklahoma, which was then both the county seat and formerly part of Indian territory. Her parents, Margaret (Chaffin) Barney and the Honorable Oris L. Barney, the chief justice of Caddo County, were both leaders in their community.
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Joyce Elaine Rainey Prochnow Dwiggins
Joyce Elaine Rainey Prochnow Dwiggins went to be with the Lord on May 6, 2026, at the age of ninety-seven.
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Mary Elizabeth Armstrong
Mary was born in Detroit, Michigan, in January 1948 to June Constance and Abram Payne Snyder. She was the second of six children, and her family lived in Riley Center, Reed City, Ionia, and Marquette. All her life, she cherished her memories of time spent on Lake Superior, swimming in the icy lake water and learning to figure skate.
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