Laura Jean brings eight jobs to Douglas

Tammy Kerr met Laura Jean Stannis when she was 2 years old. The neighbors grew up together and became college roommates. After marriage, they built houses next door to one […]

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Can-Do Kitchen incubated businesses to show off products
Help for Hannah: MPI Research offers hope

Work based in Southwest Michigan's pharmaceutical research heritage is offering hope for one family who needs it. Managing editor Kathy Jennings reports as if a life depends on it. Because it does.

The beauty of the irregular, the bliss of slowing down

The Kalamazoo Books Center is about paper making, printmaking, letterpress, creative writing, and bookbinding, but it's much more. Zinta Aistars talks with director Jeff Abshear about preserving a technology that changed the world.

MLive: $1 million from Kalamazoo County will help DDA
Kalamazoo Gazette: Family of combat archers fights medieval battles
B.C. Enquirer: W.K. Kellogg Grant goes to Salvation Army

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