COVID19

May 1 Art Hop will be on the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo Facebook page

You've probably never been able to take in a whole Art Hop all and once and comment on the art, too. For the May 1 Art Hop the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo Facebook page is the place to do it all.

Latest in COVID19
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.

WMU trustees freeze tuition, housing costs in response to pandemic. Glen Oaks offers students grants

There will be no increase in tuition or room and board for Western Michigan University students in the academic year that begins this fall. The WMU Board of Trustees have frozen rates at the current year's levels.

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.

Recovery for one Battle Creek business takes root

The easing of some stay at home restrictions for some businesses came just in time for Plumeria Botanical Boutique in Battle Creek.

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.

The Blog: Applying the glue of life

A professional tells us good communication needs to start long before a crisis hits and continue long after.

The Blog: Holding on to a this too shall pass state of mind

Restaurateur Peecoon Allen of Battle Creek encourages us to be our own temples where good things live inside our hearts, in today's blog.   

Importance of childcare system highlighted during COVID-19 crisis, Battle Creek providers say

Childcare is among the many things that have been largely shut down as COVID-19 spread across the country. Childcare providers from Battle Creek talk about how they have kept in touch with parents and youngsters and what they hope for the future when the economy is reset.

Watch Family Health Center CEO Denise Crawford in April 22 live stream event

Two COVID-19 testing sites open Thursday, April 23.

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