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Sloan Museum receives $400K from Hagerman Foundation for new early childhood gallery
By Jan Worth-Nelson A new $400,000 grant from the Flint-based Hagerman Foundation to the Sloan Museum of Discovery will provide funding for a new early childhood gallery, and brings the Flint science and history museum to within $2 million of its $27.6 million fundraising goal, Sloan Executive Director Todd Slisher announced today. The latest donation…
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Commentary: An August primary primer–how it’s different and why its important
By Paul Rozycki In a time of the COVID-19 virus, economic shutdowns, Black Lives Matter protests, and 500-year floods, it’s difficult to focus on something as routine as an August primary election. Even in “normal” times, the primary is often overshadowed by summer vacations, county fairs, and car cruises, and the turnout is usually low.…
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Free COVID testing for Flint residents returns to Shiloh MBC Thursday and Friday
The City of Flint has issued the following announcement: “FLINT, Michigan—Free COVID-19 testing will return on Thursday and Friday to Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church through the continued partnership of state, county and local entities. Testing at Shiloh has been extremely popular with residents with more than 1,200 tests conducted during two previous testing cycles [starting…
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Village Life: 26 miles on foot in Flint, Connor Coyne’s walk is both ancient and intimate
By Connor Coyne On a Sunday at the end of June, my alarm goes off at three in the morning. I dress in the darkness, putting on the loose fitting shirt and shorts I’d selected the night before. I’m careful not to wake my wife who will sleep for several more hours in the antiseptic…
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East Village Magazine – July 2020
The latest issue of the East Village Magazine is available for download here.
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Three seats opening on Flint Community Schools board; petitions to run for Nov. 3 election available now
The Flint City Clerk’s office issued the following press release today: Petitions are now available in the Flint City Clerk’s Office, second floor of City Hall, 1101 S. Saginaw St., for persons interested in seeking election to the Flint Board of Education. Three seats are open for the election, to be held Nov. 3, 2020.…
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On the last day of the month, Mayor Neeley officially recognizes June as Pride Month for City of Flint
The following press release was issued today, June 30, by the City of Flint: “Mayor Sheldon Neeley today issued a proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month in the City of Flint. “It is believed to be the first time the City of Flint has recognized the month. The proclamation recognizes June as Pride Month for…
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Education Beat: Flint school board nixes new administration’s plan to reopen schools
By Harold C. Ford On June 29, with barely five weeks remaining until the start of the 2020-2021 school year, the board of education of Flint Community Schools (FCS) rejected the plans for reopening schools put forward by Anita Steward, the district’s new superintendent. A motion to move 6th, 7th , and 8th graders to…
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Education Beat: Lopez fired, Steward hired as Flint Community Schools staff challenges continue
By Harold C. Ford “I’m just overwhelmed how we were left in March and she stepped up.” …Vera Perry, board trustee, Flint Community Schools, June 25, 2020 At a special meeting of the board of education of Flint Community Schools (FCS) June 25, Derrick Lopez was terminated as FCS superintendent “without cause” in a 4-1…
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Village Life: Flint’s newest journalists are eight years old and raring to write
By Jan Worth-Nelson Paxon Laube-Clary’s head hurt. Stuck at home in pandemic shutdown, he was spending three to four hours a day of screen time keeping up with his classes at the Perry Innovation Center in Grand Blanc. His friend since preschool, Julian Pauli, home from the Flint Cultural Center Academy, was in the same…
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