Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, and there’s no better place to spend it than in Michigan. Our state has over 9.9 million acres of farmland and produces more than 300 commodities, making it the state with the second most diverse agriculture industry in the...
People
The FIRST & 42 Forum: Meet Mona Lisa Watson
To help our community members make informed choices in the upcoming election, we asked candidates running for important local, state, and national seats to participate in our Forum to help you get to know them better. Today, meet Mona Lisa Watson. Focusing on the top...
Two Bandits Brewing Company to Open New Location in Downtown Coldwater
10 New Jobs Headed to Coldwater Two Bandits Brewing Company out of Hicksville, Ohio will be opening a brewpub in the historic Kerr building on the corner of West Chicago and South Hanchett streets, just North of the Tibbits Opera House. Owners Mark Young and Bob Garza...
The FIRST & 42 Forum: Meet Jen Richardson
To help our community members make informed choices in the upcoming election, we asked candidates running for important local, state, and national seats to participate in our Forum to help you get to know them better. Today, meet Jen Richardson. Seeking election as a...
The FIRST & 42 Forum: Meet Tom Graham
To help our community members make informed choices in the upcoming election, we asked candidates running for important local, state, and national seats to participate in our Forum to help you get to know them better. Today, meet Tom Graham. Longtime resident and...
FIRST & 42 Forum: Meet Matt Hall
To help our community members make informed choices in the upcoming election, we asked candidates running for important local, state, and national seats to participate in our Forum to help you get to know them better. We will share responses as they are submitted....
People’s Food Co-op Acts as Pollinators for Community
In downtown Kalamazoo, People's Food Co-op (PFC) has remained a reliable destination to provide our community with a wide selection of nutritious, wholesome foods since it opened in 1973. With the tagline—locally grown, community-owned—the adaptations it has made...
Introducing the FIRST & 42 Forum: Meet Jon Hoadley
The team at FIRST & 42 is always one to embrace a little bit of history. When it comes to politics, we can’t resist the temptation to let our mind drift back to the days of Rome’s open-air Forum back in 500 B.C. It was at this Forum when people first began meeting...
Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership Accepting Small Business Applications for Match on Main Grant Program
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)’s Match on Main program, which serves as a tool for local units of government, downtown development authorities, or other downtown management organizations to support place-based businesses, is being expanded to...
Quality Touch Changes Course for the Community
There's nothing quite like a fresh coat of paint to update a room, but with executive orders limiting the work for local painting company Quality Touch, CEO Quincy Nunn decided to focus on cleaning-up something else, our hands with hand sanitizer! In late March,...
Places
Latest4 Flutes Machining Helps Power American Defense
Inside 4 Flutes Machining in Vicksburg, the work is precise, technical and deeply connected to...










