Lake Michigan Senior Correspondent for Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Bureau Gary Wilson says nobody’s going to say they don’t want to take care of drinking water problems in Michigan. But he says there will be debates over Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal to spend $120-million on drinking water infrastructure. 

Whitmer proposed the supplemental funding as she presented her budget proposal to the state Legislature. The money would be used for replacing lead service lines, responding to PFASes and setting up a fund so local governments can borrow money for water infrastructure. Wilson says Whitmer’s request shows that drinking water is near the top of her agenda along with roads and schools.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra music director Julian Kuerti will conduct, and principal clarinetist Gyorgiy Borisov will be a featured soloist, on Saturday at 8 pm in Miller Auditorium. They recently joined Cara Lieurance to talk about the wonders of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and the exciting new clarinet concerto by Jonathan Leshnoff, written in 2015.

A former Tuskegee airman says he and his fellow pilots suffered discrimination from their white counter parts, but ultimately proved they were as good as anyone else in protecting the country During World War II. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson will speak at an event at the Air Zoo Friday night. 

What if, looking back on a night in the past, you remember only that you drank until you blacked out? Then you find a video that seems to indicate that you murdered a friend while you were out. That’s the crux of The Lost Night (Crown Publishing Group, 2019), a novel by Brooklyn-based journalist, Andrea Bartz.

As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan says there are two questions she’s often asked: What are people’s last words? And what do people regret as they are dying? She says “I think what they’re really asking is ‘what am I going to regret? And what are the most important things to say?’”

Hospice chaplain Kerry Egan says watching a loved one die is hard. She says they may suffer in pain for a long time. But Egan says one benefit of having time before death is that people have a chance to reflect on life, make a connection and say something to a loved one before they can’t say it anymore.   

The book On Living chronicles the things people told Egan while they were in Hospice. It includes reflections on the meaning of life, and regrets people felt at the end. Egan will speak at the McShane Preacher’s Colloquium Sunday March 10th and Monday March 11th at First Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo.

Rick Phelps, music director of the Kalamazoo Singers, says he's heard exciting music and breathtaking performances from high school choirs in his career as an adjudicator at choral festivals. He keeps a notebook nearby during a day of adjudication, noting down the pieces that catch his interest. This is where he came up with the idea of featuring choral festival favorites in a concert by the Kalamazoo Singers, a community choir that takes on a wide variety of repertoire.

The concert "A Festival Song" will be held at 3 pm on Sunday, Mar 10 at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Portage.