Tag: Blight Squad
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Fearless Flint trailblazer and broadcast pioneer: the colorful life of Roberta “Bobbi” Wray
By Teddy Robertson Wingwalker, actor, musician, music lover, pilot, lawyer, magistrate, neighborhood activist, and pioneering broadcaster in Flint’s glory days: those are some of the words that describe the colorful life of Roberta “Bobbi” Wray, 77. At her Mott Park dining room table strewn with current projects, Wray, the first woman TV broadcaster hired in…
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When they’d “had enough,” Mott Park Blight Squad stepped up to save their neighborhood
By Teddy Robertson On Father’s Day, Sunday, June 19, NBC-25 aired a local news segment that showed a group of Mott Park residents as they cleared brush, cut dangling branches, boarded up windows, and mowed overgrown grass at a vacant house in the neighborhood. Six volunteers, including an eager three-year-old helper named Jack, worked fast…
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