In an effort to “keep the community’s pride,” several children are currently working on a mural at Forest Hills Cooperative in Ann Arbor. Located in the southeast area of Ann Arbor, Forest Hills is a moderate-income housing co-op. The mural, which is placed in its community garden, will be an ...
Plagued with shootings and distrust of police, Ypsilanti Township’s West Willow neighborhood is fighting back to save its community. Last summer resident Angela Barbash started a Citizens Patrol to keep watch, and new entryway signs were erected to greet visitors. The New West Willow Neighborhood Association (Barbash is the president) ...
The first storm of the 2010 sledding season arrived on December 12. To celebrate, here's last year's guide to sledding, updated throughout. From the poem, "A Primer," by Bob Hicok in The New Yorker, May 19, 2008: February is thirteen months long in Michigan. We are a people who by ...
One of the nicest things to do on a Sunday is getting out of the house for a walk or a drive through the neighborhood. Sometimes that takes you to a place you don't normally go, and if you're like me and don't have a GPS handy at all times ...
I've been taking a mid-day trip from my downtown office to work for a while in one of the many places in our neighborhoods where you can sit down with a laptop and a cup of coffee and get on the network. The strategy is to find a destination that's ...
Last week, we launched six new neighborhood pages on AnnArbor.com: Downtown Ann Arbor, Central Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor's West Side, Ann Arbor's South Side, Ann Arbor's North Side and UM Campus.As we've been working on these new pages, I've been looking maps of Ann Arbor to make sense of where ...
If you have just moved to Ann Arbor, the new resident handbook doesn't include the crucial information that helps you navigate like a native. The native, or the immigrant who has picked up enough of the local folklore to pass for a native, is always prepared to refer to a ...
Ann Arbor's Leslie Science and Nature Center is heading into uncharted territory. For the first time since 1988, Kirsten Levinsohn won't be running the place. Her replacement, one Greta Brunschwyler, is by all accounts well-liked and well-positioned to lead the center into the new decade. Her task is to take ...
The City of Ann Arbor is entertaining proposals from developers for a conference and convention center hotel to be located on the Library Lot, next to the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library. But what if you have a meeting that you want to hold before construction is ...
I live in the Lower Burns Park neighborhood in Ann Arbor. I was recently asked what I liked about living there, and why I decided to live there, and what has made me stay. It's always hard to know why you do anything, and if I remember right, we bought ...
On Saturday morning (9/16) I was making my usual cup of coffee, enjoying expected and helpful advice from the Car Guys on NPR and watching fellow Wolverine fans flood down Wells Street to the Delaware State game. Hearing a knocking sound at the front of the house I opened the ...
I should have known how tough it would be to define neighborhoods in the city of Ann Arbor when the Community Team and I took on the challenge. But it's proving to be even more of a test than any of us first envisioned. As I wrote in a previous ...
When the Sumner Hicks house was recently listed for sale, more than a piece of property went up on the market. It was a piece of Ann Arbor history. The Sumner Hicks house, at 163 years old, is one of the city’s oldest residential dwellings. The historic Greek revival-style house, ...
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will pay a visit to the University of Michigan Sept. 11 to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Law School, the Detroit Free Press reports. The event is not open to the public; Roberts will take questions from U-M law students, faculty ...
What defines a neighborhood? That's the question the Community Team at AnnArbor.com has been struggling with over the past few weeks. Hyperlocal neighborhood coverage is a key part of our strategy to make AnnArbor.com of, by and for the community. But before we launch full-force into trying to create the ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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