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CCNA hears blight, crime, pot shop and tree planting reports
By Patsy Isenberg Establishment of a city court to help eliminate neighborhood blight and a report on difficulties of containing crime in the neighborhood were features of the Sept. 20 meeting of the College Cultural Neighborhood Association. About 45 residents, officers, volunteers and speakers gathered at the Mott Technology Center, after a summer break, back…
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Flint Fresh Food Hub opens, expanding options for locally-grown produce, sustainable economy
By Darlene Carey It seemed fitting just a day before the fall equinox that local growers gathered to celebrate a time of harvest and Flint food distribution advocates rejoiced in the official opening Sept. 21 of the new 14,530-square-foot Flint Fresh Food Hub at 3325 E. Court Street. There is reason for the public to…
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Luminous “JFK: The Last Speech” essay collection reverberates 55 years after one October day
By Robert R. Thomas On Oct, 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave his last public speech, at Amherst College in western Massachusetts. The occasion of Kennedy’s Convocation Address at Amherst was the ground-breaking ceremony for the Robert Frost Library. Frost, an avid friend and supporter of JFK, had taught at Amherst for many years…
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“Demolition Means Progress” Community Book Read and discussion kicks off Sept. 29
By Jan Worth-Nelson A four-session opportunity to read, discuss and absorb Demolition Means Progress: Flint and the Fate of the American Metropolis by Andrew Highsmith, a book described by many readers as one of the most penetrating, well-researched and troubling about Flint, kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 at Totem Books. Harold C. Ford,…
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Flint millennials comment on what might make them stay: real estate incentives, jobs, ice cream
By Meghan Christian What attracts millennials to Flint? And after they get here, what might make them stay? Various City of Flint officials, including Mayor Karen Weaver and Third Ward Councilperson Santino Guerra and representatives from area employers Huntington Bank and the Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce, continued their efforts to find out Sept.…
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Flotsam to fashion: salvaged water bottles become raincoats, swimsuits in Flint Fit project
By Patsy Isenberg Key figures from Flint Fit, a project to turn 90,000 water bottles into fashion, were on hand at The Capitol Theatre Sept. 15 to show Flint what became of the truckload of plastic collected in the city last fall. The clothes, created by a triumvirate of artists in New York City; thread…
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Thread Lake, Kearsley dam projects progress; downtown “rapids” plan on Flint River hits snag
By Jeffery L Carey Jr. As the year winds down, the City of Flint has begun its fourth dam project, this one at the Kearsley Dam at the corner of Layton Boulevard and Western Road. Work on the Kearsley Dam follows the recent repair of Thread Lake Dam and the removal of both the Fabri…
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Review/Commentary: Foreboding “Fahrenheit 11/9” a jumbled jeremiad, but we still need it
By Jan Worth-Nelson In his opening remarks to a crowd of about 1,000 at the screening of his new movie “Fahrenheit 11/9” Monday night at Whiting Auditorium in Flint, Michael Moore said he was trying to do his part to save the movies. Movie theaters, he said, are “the last place that people can go…
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Kayak Flint launches “urban paddling” through downtown beginning this weekend
By Jan Worth-Nelson Despite what Michael Moore said, inaccurately, in his new film “Fahrenheit 11/9,” the Flint River is cleaner and more beautiful than ever before, thanks to years of assiduous cleanup and the gradual removal of the Hamilton Dam. Now the determined river advocates and activists of the Flint River Watershed Coalition and its…
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“Flint Fit” project back in town for “water bottle” fashion show Saturday at Capitol Theatre
By Patsy Isenberg Water bottles are taking on new life as fashion in a project coming back to Flint this weekend. The Flint Fit project kicked off at a press conference last fall has come to fruition and is showing off its wares in the city whose travails inspired it. Saturday, Sept. 15 at…
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