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Michigan News, Kalamazoos last-standing newsstand is still the place to go to check Kalamazoos pulse.

National Night Out is a Kalamazoo summer tradition to connect with neighbors, police, and resources.

SPLAT: The Buzz about Fly Swatters, showing until January 7, 2024, at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, features 1,250 unusual swatters. Learn more here!

For 54 years, MRC Industries has been cultivating the artist in people with disabilities while preparing them through job training and living skills to lead full, independent lives.

Kalamazoo knows how to have fun. Even before summers official start on Wednesday, the city has been celebrating the sunny season: Kalamazoo Art Fair, Do-Dah Parade, Food Truck Fridays, Pride, Juneteenth, Queer the Block, and music everywhere!

The search for housing can be its own form of trauma. For Tamika Williams a $1,215 unpaid rent payment has been standing between her and a place to stay for her and her two children as she has visited agency after agency since September of 2022. But

Zinta Aistars speaks with noted Kalamazoo photographer Fran Dwight about her art.

Kalamazoos Youth Juvenile Justice Fellowship program, started in 2021 through WMUs Lewis Walker Institute, supports the development of youth advocates in the community as well as a vision to create an alternative to youth incarceration in Kalamazoo

Mandy Clearwaters, an art teacher at Winchell Elementary, had a vision to bring Inside Out, an international portrait project devised by French-artist JR, to Kalamazoo Public Schools.

The Kalamazoo Nonprofit Advocacy Coaiion has launched a $7 million fundraising campaign to preserve and renovate the 167-year-old First Baptist Church, which it now owns.