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Think small, go far: Save gas with this one fun trick!

As gas prices climb, Kalamazoo residents are exploring e-bikes and other micromobility options to save money, improve transportation efficiency, and rethink how they get around safely.

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Nature beneath the power lines: Transforming utility corridors into public trails

In Portage, trails through Consumers Energy Co. utility corridors offer a place to encounter nature close to home, as well as a look at what sharing a landscape entails.

Gene the Pumpkin Man’s legacy lives on at Evans Acres

After 67 years of growing pumpkins and creating fall memories, the late Gene “Pumpkin Man” Rhodes’ family legacy continues as Evans Acres Family Farm opens with plans to offer year-round family experiences.

Blue Horizon Real Estate works to be part of the solution to the affordable housing shortage

Marissa Harrington, founder of Blue Horizon Real Estate, advocates for breaking down communication silos among Kalamazoo’s housing stakeholders to address systemic barriers to affordable homeownership.

Community dances to support aging in place

Milestone Senior Services’ annual Celebrate Aging Together Dance Party brought about 90 community members together to raise funds for aging-in-place programs and honor local leaders, volunteers, and advocates for older adults.

Community Land Trusts in Portage and elsewhere help residents become homeowners affordably

As the statewide housing crisis continues, communities of all sizes are looking at how to increase affordable housing options for current and future residents. In Kalamazoo County, the Portage Community Land Trust is helping residents become homeowners affordably with their new workforce housing development, Stanwood Crossings.

Not sad, just transcendent: 17 years of Kalamashoegazer

Kalamashoegazer, Kalamazoo’s 17-year-old celebration of dreamy, guitar-heavy shoegaze, proves the genre is less about standing sadly in a corner than getting lost together in a transcendent wall of sound.

$10.6 million expansion of Northside housing project will add 38 more apartments

A ceremonial groundbreaking took place recently on North Pitcher Street for the expansion of the Zone 32 residential and commercial complex.

Feeling slowed down? That’s the point. Kalamazoo crashes drop 25%.

Kalamazoo’s traffic calming makes roads safer for everyday mistakes, while enforcement targets truly dangerous driving.

From Kalamazoo with love: A father’s handmade bench finds its way home

A beloved Kalamazoo father’s handmade bench finds its way 700 miles home to his grieving daughter.

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