The number of unlicensed and stray dogs in Calhoun County and the City of Battle Creek is an issue, especially during the summer months. Here's how local animal control officers deal with it.
There is increasing evidence that exposure to plants and green space, and particularly to gardening, is beneficial to mental health. That's the idea behind a garden primarily for veterans across Southwest Michigan located in Kalamazoo County.
The rate of vaccinations has slowed in Kalamazoo County over the last six weeks. The demand for COVID-19 inoculations has dropped from a peak of 3,000 to 3,500 per clinic during the winter months and early spring, a Kalamazoo County health officials says to 30 to 40 shots per clinic presently.
The new service is now available in Oakland County and Michigan's Upper Peninsula – and it's just the first step of a larger plan to roll out improved mental health crisis services across the state.
A 96-bed inpatient behavioral health facility in Battle Creek is slated to open in 2022.
DeMargeo White was one of 100 who received a Kalamazoo Micro-Enterprise Grant last year and it helped his business move from a part-time gig to a full-time enterprise. This year another 90 businesses will have the opportunity for the same type of cash infusion for their work.
Calhoun County's COVID Vaccine Ambassadors want to get information out to the community and for some of them, the work is personal.
Facing a choice between continuing her career as a lawyer and heading a community theater in a challenging time, Laura Zervic went with what she loved.
Piano lessons, bus rides, and exposure to skilled trades are included alongside reading and STEM activities — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in summer learning programs that are underway in Battle Creek.
A recent report by the state's new Food Security Council examines response to food security issues during COVID-19 and how we can learn from it in the long term.
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