The State Theatre is doing what it can to bring back live entertainment and to remind people that it's still a vibrant venue -- as vibrant as a global pandemic allows.
Maude Bristol-Perry joined an exclusive group on Saturday when street signage at the corner of 24th Street and Territorial Road was topped with a new sign honoring her more than 50 years of leadership and service to the Battle Creek community.
Together the group of nonprofits is working to transform the historic First Baptist Church in downtown Kalamazoo without losing its character and in a way that is financially feasible.
Battle Creek will celebrate the historical living legacy of Maude Bristol-Perry’s contributions over the last 50 plus years as a business and civic leader and community advocate for early childhood education in a ceremony May 8.
The goal to clear everything out, including wallpaper and carpeting, right down to the studs to create a blank canvas for a total refresh of the hotel in downtown Battle Creek, which is expected to re-open by 2022.
Be responsible to your neighbors. Treat them with respect. Those are two of the things that neighbors share in the five-block area of the West Douglas neighborhood in Kalamazoo that those who live there have nicknamed The People's Republic of Prospect.
To survive, previous generations often denied the emotional hurt they suffered and refused to acknowledge the pain caused by the extreme oppression of Native Americans. To overcome historical trauma the Native American culture and practices are being restored.
Despite the tragedy, COVID-19 in Michigan is also a story of people rallying, innovating, protesting, and collaborating to meet needs for food, housing, medical care, education, and equity.
Imagine a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution. It's called food sovereignty and Zoo City Farm and Food Network is working to bring it to Kalamazoo.
In the past 50 years, Colleagues International, now Global Ties Kalamazoo, has hosted thousands of international visitors from more than 100 countries in settings that let them get to know someone as a person.
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