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GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Motown has lost its “Angel of Jazz.” Surrounded by family, businesswoman and philanthropist Gretchen Carhartt Valade, 97, died at her Grosse Pointe Farms home Dec. 30.

Metro Detroit businesswoman, philanthropist and arts patron Gretchen Carhartt Valade died Dec. 30 at her Grosse Pointe Farms home.

Gretchen Valade, the heiress of Carhartt Inc. and champion of Detroit music and arts, died last week. She was 97 years old.The prominent businesswoman and philanthropist died Dec. 30 at her home in Grosse Pointe Farms, according to a Tuesday news release from Dearborn-based Carhartt.As the…

Rising construction costs and inflation have nearly doubled the projected cost to build the Schaap Center, a visual and performing arts center on the border of Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit.In response, organizers stepped up fundraising, bringing in more than $20 million over the past year and a…

Come July, Northern Vermont University will be known as Vermont State University-Johnson Campus, a single node among five bearing the same name.

Duluth Trading Co. may soon see a boost in sales after Carhartt doubled down on its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy.

A convoy of New England truckers was met with cheers from crowded overpasses stretching from Maine to Connecticut ...

Last month, Carhartt was thrust into the spotlight when its CEO said the company was keeping its vaccine mandate. But business hasnt suffered.

Another big business entity is telling its corporate employees to become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their job.

The ruling does not change Carhartt’s mandatory vaccination program, which went into effect on January 4th. This is not sitting well with the company's core audience.