Category Archives: Kalamazoo

Taste of Kalamazoo Festival ~ July 21-23

July 10, 2011 – 9:24 pm

Every year, on the fourth weekend of July, thousands of hungry festival-goers flock to downtown Kalamazoo to enjoy the endless variety of foods prepared by Kalamazoo’s most popular eateries at the Taste of Kalamazoo Festival. More than 30 local restaurants and chefs will offer mouth-watering ethnic items, family favorites, exotic dishes, and local specialties. Enjoy [...]

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Kalamazoo Water Festival ~ August 14, 2010

August 10, 2010 – 8:17 am

The Kalamazoo Water Festival happens this Saturday (August 14) at the Arcadia Creek Festival Site in Kalamazoo. While the festival has been planned for months, it’s especially poignant this year as the Kalamazoo River watershed is reeling under the largest oil spill in Michigan history. Hopefully this event and this festival will drive home the [...]

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Michigan seeks to use Land Banks for redevelopment

December 22, 2009 – 8:17 am

Abandoned Richardsonian Romanesque House in Detroit ( Former James Scott Mansion ) by Derek Farr Michigan has 29 land bank authorities – more than any state. The Detroit News reports that Michigan is going to try to use these land banks to spur redevelopment and garner nearly $300 million: With the federal money expected to [...]

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Michigan Good Food Tour: Fair Food Matters in Kalamazoo

December 14, 2009 – 8:49 am

beets450 by CreateWithKim The Michigan Land Use Institute’s Patty Cantrell is reporting on how communities across Michigan building stronger communities with healthy, local food in the Good Food Tour. The latest, Kalamazoo: Oh, the Webs They Weave!, begins: The rise of Kalamazoo’s strong Good Food movement is a story about people—and about how one good [...]

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Electric Blues: Remembering Les Paul

August 17, 2009 – 6:42 am

“Les Paul brought six strings to electricity and electricity to six strings. Les Paul was an innovator, a groundbreaker, a risk taker, a mentor and a friend. Try to imagine what we’d be doing if he hadn’t come along and changed the world. There will always be more Les to come. That’s certified.” ~ Billy [...]

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100 Hours of Astronomy

March 26, 2009 – 2:06 pm

The 100 Hours of Astronomy project (100HA) is a worldwide event with a wide range of public outreach activities including live webcasts, observing events and more taking place during a 100-hour period in early April. One of the key goals of 100HA is to have as many people as possible look through a telescope as [...]

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Windmill School in Kalamazoo

March 5, 2009 – 10:53 am

windmill (sepia) by idiot_girl In Training Turbine Installers: A Michigan First, the blog Got2BeGreen tipped us off to: A school in southwest Michigan called Kalamazoo Valley Community College is launching a first-of-its-kind program to train people to install wind turbines. If you want to get one of those green jobs that Van Jones and the [...]

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Michigan celebrates the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

February 4, 2009 – 7:40 am

This year is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth (Feb. 12, 2009) and the Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee is working to help the people of Michigan to appreciate how Lincoln’s life relates to the lives of Michiganians today. You can click over to see events & exhibits in Michigan relating to Abraham Lincoln, [...]

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Back to School: Free college with The Kalamazoo Promise

September 9, 2008 – 1:13 pm

The Promise Starts Here by Ed Roth Quite simply, The Kalamazoo Promise is a scholarship offered to every Kalamazoo Public School student. Depending on the time in the district and income level of the family, students may earn up to 100% tuition at any public State of Michigan university or community college. You can get [...]

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Dig Michigan: Kalamazoo Region

August 13, 2008 – 1:36 pm

Situated approximately half way between Detroit and Chicago and home to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo is the second of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas [...]

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