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WMUK News
9:26 am
Mon May 6, 2013

Project Connect helps get services to the poor

Credit Kalamazoo County Poverty Reduction Initiative
A haircut at Project Connect in November 2011

If you’re poor in Kalamazoo County, getting vital social services can be a challenge. It’s even harder if you don’t have a car. But twice a year, Project Connect helps low-income residents get the services they need through one-stop shopping. The next one will be on Wednesday, May 8th, from noon to 4 p.m. in the Kalamazoo County Expo Center at the county fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street.

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Albion Public Schools
8:21 am
Mon May 6, 2013

Albion Schools consider major steps to address budget shortfall

Credit Albion Public Schools
Albion High School marquee

    

  • Interview with Justin Hinkley

Albion Public School officials are considering drastic action to address a $1-million budget shortfall. That could include closing the district's high school.

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Kalamazoo Marathon
9:00 am
Fri May 3, 2013

Third annual Kalamazoo Marathon this weekend

Credit Kalamazoo Marathon/Borgess Run for the Health of It

  • Interview with Blaine Lam

The third Kalamazoo Marathon is being run this weekend as part of the Borgess Run for the Health of It

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Local Music
3:38 pm
Thu May 2, 2013

Old-world Tchaikovsky style from Battle Creek Symphony

Credit anneharrigan.com
Anne Harrigan

Conductor Anne Harrigan can hear a remarkable difference in Tchaikovsky when the musicians of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra play his music. 

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Film
3:00 pm
Thu May 2, 2013

'How to Survive A Plague': A history of AIDS activism

Credit IFC Films

Kalamazoo College will screen the documentary How to Survive A Plague, directed by K-College alum David France, Sunday at the Dalton Theatre at 7 p.m. The documentary follows two major activists groups in the fight to keep people from dying of AIDS, the Treatment Action Group and the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Now it’s set to be made into an TV miniseries on ABC.

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