Features

Filling the Gaps

For people of color, there are many barriers to accessing mental health care. Valarie Cunningham’s Synergy Health Center works to overcome them.
  • By Chris Killian –
  • June 30, 2022

BIO-KLEEN

Making the world a little cleaner one product at a time
  • By Maggie Drew –
  • May 24, 2022
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The Gilmore Festival is Back

After a ‘wild ride’ for staff and heartbreak for musicians, the piano festival returns
  • By Katie Houston –
  • March 31, 2022

Picking up the Pieces

After Brent Hook was shot, his kids became the driving force in his recovery
  • By Marie Lee –
  • February 1, 2022

Revealed 2021

Unseen Encore photos we just have to share
  • By Brian Powers –
  • December 1, 2021
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Cannabis Country

Growers of all sizes are making SW Michigan a hotbed for marijuana farming
  • By Chris Killian –
  • November 1, 2021
WMed Dean Paula Termuhlen overlooking downtown Kalamazoo from the seventh floor of the WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine.

Paula Termuhlen

WMed’s new leader is committed to diversity and skilled at building it
  • By Marie Lee –
  • October 1, 2021

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