Kalamazoo group works to preserve area adjacent to the Kleinstuck Preserve
The Stewards of Kleinstuck have launched a campaign to purchase undeveloped woodland next to the preserve.
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Healthcare industry leans on telemedicine for routine care
The use of technology expands to allow doctors to ‘see’ stay-at-home patients. Various physician offices in the area, as well as Bronson Healthcare, say COVID-19 speeded up a gradual switch to telehealth.
Partnership makes $5,000 grants available to the smallest Kalamazoo businesses hit by COVID-19
The smallest businesses affected by the coronavirus shut down are the focus of the Kalamazoo Micro-Enterprise Grants. Businesses are now being invited to apply.
KPL prepares to come back from COVID-19 shutdown. Reopening will be in four phases.
Kalamazoo Public Library works through what will make patrons feel safe and be safe when it reopens later this year.
‘I thought it was the flu,’ Kalamazoo survivor says as COVID-19 strikes blacks at high rates
As the coronavirus strikes a disproportionately high rate of African Americans, a Kalamazoo medical authority says those who don’t have obvious symptoms may suffer through, believing they have the flu.
The Heritage Community of Kalamazoo prepares a new COVID-19 isolation and treatment unit
The Heritage Community, the first senior care facility in Kalamazoo may have been the fastest to react to COVID-19 by creating an isolation unit in case residents might catch the virus and early measures to restrict visitors.
Sixty-three small businesses awarded $1.1 million in loans in Kalamazoo
COVID-closed businesses get financial help through Kalamazoo Small Business Loan Fund to ease the impact of a month without revenue.
Medicine, engineering, and production came together quickly in Kalamazoo to produce intubation boxes
Kalamazoo ingenuity is shining these days. Case in point: a local effort to local effort to produce protective intubation boxes has far-reaching potential.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the Kalamazoo court system is thinking hard about who’s in jail
Officials report inmate count is down by about 50% at Kalamazoo County Jail as the cases of nonviolent, misdemeanor, and low-risk criminal suspects are reviewed to see who must be in jail and whose incarceration can wait for social distancing to ease.
How rough has shutdown been on small businesses? Insights from a dentist, barber, and car salesman
A look at how three small businesses in the Kalmaazoo area are faring during the shut down precipitated by the spread of COVID-19.
