Business
Open Roads Builds New Youth Bike Hub
How Pro Services Is Tackling Manufacturing’s Maintenance Talent Gap With Pro Academy
At Pro Academy in Portage, the story goes beyond a training facility. For Pro Services, the Academy reflects a challenge manufacturers know well: finding and developing skilled maintenance talent. The Portage-based company works across industrial maintenance,...
Spencer Fire Trucks Celebrates 40 Years
Goodwill Golf Classic Tees Up Third Annual Event
Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan will bring back its Goodwill Golf Classic on Monday, July 27 at Gull Lake View Golf Resort, with registration opening March 1. The third annual outing continues to support Goodwill’s work in education, training, skill...
Battle Creek VA Lands Federal Funding
WMU Names Student Pitch Finalists
Every Stitch Matters: Inside the Hand-Guided Process at Heirloom Stitching
In Nottawa Township, where open farmland and small businesses shape the landscape east of Three Rivers, a quiet manufacturing operation is turning out hundreds of boot uppers a day through a process that depends as much on skilled hands as it does on machinery....
Aligning Workforce, Housing, and Michigan’s Economic Competitiveness
Recent conversations in Lansing highlight an important reality for Michigan’s economy: long-term competitiveness will depend on how well the state aligns workforce development, housing availability, and economic development policy. Last month, economic development...
