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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.