There is more to the American Rescue Plan than a stimulus check for individual taxpayers. Local government will receive funds, too. Calhoun County will work to make the funds work for everyone in a strategic and coordinated way. Battle Creek expects it will help with lost city income tax revenue.
It's outdoors. It's naturally social distanced. Disc golf has proven to be almost pandemic proof and in Bedford Township a new course has been created for golfers, as long as you call ahead.
Sojourner Truth has an important place in Calhoun County's history. And there are many more local women whose place in the past has gone largely unnoticed. Here are nine of them.
Isolation can be a real threat to seniors. In Calhoun County that need for connection is in part being met through the use of GrandPads, a device just for older folks.
There’s an increased need for human services and a diminished revenue base and putting the two together has the potential to be detrimental to Calhoun County residents. County Administrator Kelli Scott tells us what could lie ahead in 2021. She says in times like these, leadership matters.
There’s a limit to how much stress hospitals can handle, Battle Creek medical experts are warning. COVID-19 cases are currently testing those limits.
Once forced to abandon their way of life, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi are among those Native Americans nationwide who are teaching tribe members traditional ways of fishing, foraging, planting, and hunting.
Since 2016, the Native American Heritage Fund has been providing information and funding to promote positive relationships between public and private K-12 schools, colleges, universities, local units of government, and Michigan’s federally recognized Native American Tribes. This year $482,000 in grants were awarded to foster those relationships.
“I had one gentleman tell me that people should go through this program before they get married and that if he had, it would have saved him a lot of heartache,” says Detective Josh Chapman with the Domestic Violence Intervention Court team in Calhoun County. Read on to find out how the program is working.
Eric Pessell, Health Officer with Calhoun County’s Health Department says this surge of cases is the highest they have seen. "The current number of hospitalizations is the highest yet," he says. "We need to figure out a way to head it back down."
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