With funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the national nonprofit Generations United is bringing generations together to build communities that work better for all.
Calhoun County residents who need assistance with paying their rent or utilities are being encouraged to apply before a portal established for emergency rental and utility assistance closes in May.
Efforts to provide more needed housing in Kalamazoo County continue as members of the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners recently approved a total of $2.6 million in funding to support planned residential projects. When completed the projects approved should add about 115 new housing units, and another 30 existing properties would be rehabilitated.
Covering five northern Michigan counties, Northwest Education Services (NES) nutrition educators use a community-based approach that recognizes the unique strengths and challenges of each community they serve.
The Kalamazoo Farmers Market will open its 2022 summer season May 7 back at its Bank Street location with new restrooms, upgraded market stalls, new access to the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail and new office space.
Is it possible to get two strangers from opposite sides of the many divides in this country to talk, and not be at each other's throats? For StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay this is a necessity. "It's our dream that we convince the country that it's our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with who you disagree."
At the daytime drop-in facility serving Calhoun County’s chronically homeless, those who visit the SHARE Center do not have to show proof of vaccination to receive services, but they do go through a temperature check upon entering the building and wear a mask when they’re inside.
Numerous Michiganders have struggled with problem gambling since online gambling was legalized in the state, but help is available.
Residents of Kalamazoo’s Northside neighborhood are working to enhance the neighborhood, by shining light on problems that need attention and working to fix them -- literally. And they are working with Building Blocks Kalamazoo to make it happen.
Children’s Nature Playscape, slated to open later this summer, is a nature-inspired space that will give kids natural features such as rocks and trees to climb, water, and logs to traverse — right in downtown Kalamazoo. And eventually, it will be one of the largest natural playscapes in an urban core.
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