The seven buses, which cost $1.1 million, are funded with a combination of state and federal funds. The new vehicles will emit fewer greenhouse gases, less nitrogen oxides, less carbon monoxide and fewer particulate emissions compared with other fuels.
A series of December open houses sponsored by local governments aims to determine what energy issues concern Grand Haven residents.
The GRIT wheelchair can go across all terrains standard wheelchairs can’t, and a West Michigan family who knows the constraints of conventional wheelchair use has created a program to allow the public borrow two of them.
With the help of a $560,000 MEDC grant, DeWys Metal Solutions is making a $3.4 million capital investment that will generate 80 manufacturing, engineering, and administrative jobs.
The November calendar is chock full o’ stuff to do. There’s an exhibit-closing event, an annual gathering, a turkey trot, and several tree-lighting events throughout West Michigan.
In order to address the housing shortage in Grand Rapids, the city and surrounding entities are looking carefully at increasing accessibility and affordability of housing. One local company, InnovaLab is quickly adding to the number of housing units, with cost-efficient, quick-build modular homes.
The Grand Haven-based Momentum Center's Barbara Lee VanHorssen has been chosen as a "Community Influencer." She and 50 other influencers from across the state will help officials better understand social determinants of health from a grass roots level.
The annual Michigan Green Communities Challenge encourages communities to participate and also measures their sustainability efforts. This was the first year Fennville participated in the challenge, after hearing about it from the Michigan Municipal League.
Windmill Island Gardens will open for weekends through mid-October and bring back the popular Magic at the Mill holiday light event in December.
A growing partnership model between community foundations and nonprofit lenders is expanding investment power in Michigan's small businesses.
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