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Beyond Basics Salon

Beyond Basics: New salon opens in Benton Harbor

Samrosetta Hardnett has been in the beauty industry for 25 years and a licensed hair stylist for 15. Now she has a salon of her own. Hardnett has opened Beyond […]

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Rebekah Kik, Kalamazoo City Planner
Cyclists say: Give us a lane
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Creating an arts hub with the help of their friends

When Kalamazoo's DIT concert supporters and the DIY crafters get together the result is a plan for the Kalamazoo Collective Arts Center. 

Mitch "Poet like Poe" Burns and Marcel "Fable" Price open show
At Put Up or Shut Up the crowd pays attention

When two poets decide that an audience at open mic should give an artist more respect, they came up with a way to make that happen. In Kalamazoo, they call it Put Up or Shut Up. 

Kalamazoo River Valley Trail to grow by 5 more miles
Corner Records leaves the corner; returns as Satellite Records

Goodbye, Corner Records. Hello, Satellite Records. The shop at the corner of the shopping center on West Main Hill is moving closer to it customer base in the Vine Neighborhoods. 

Battle Creek chooses muralist for Friendship Park
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Making Piano Accessible for All Kids

Piano Labs gives some of Kalamazoo’s most vulnerable kids and young adults a chance to make music and become pianists. 

Kalamazoo offers new way to pay parking meters: It’s mobile

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