Free rides available to Flint’s early voting sites
Oct29

Free rides available to Flint’s early voting sites

By EVM Staff Need a ride to the your early polling location this week? Genesee County has you covered. County Clerk/Registrar Domonique Clemons shared that free rides are available starting at 10 a.m. to early voting sites across Flint on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 by filling out this form or calling 810-257-3283. Pickup locations include Hasselbring Senior Center, the Flint Development Center, and Berston Field House as well as the Eastside...

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Flint Rep’s ‘Godspell’ extended to Nov. 3
Oct23

Flint Rep’s ‘Godspell’ extended to Nov. 3

By EVM Staff There’s more “Godspell” at the FIM Flint Repertory Theatre this month. The Rep’s expected four-week run of its very unexpected take on the musical has been been extended through November 3, 2024. According to Ashley Poirior, FIM Manager of Patron Communications and Content Strategy, every performance across Godspell’s four-week run has sold out. “That’s never happened since Flint...

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Village Life: Meeting SARAH
Oct20

Village Life: Meeting SARAH

By Christina Collie SARAH and I met in 2020. She’s not so much a “who” but a “what,” and her name comes from a sci-fi tv show called “Eureka” that ran from 2006-2012. In the show, SARAH stands for “Self-Actuated Residential Automated Habitat,” a house-of-the-future outfitted with an AI consciousness that controls everything from food service to security communications. In my life, though, SARAH is the lovingly ironic name...

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Education Beat: Klee leads Beecher bid for students on Flint’s north side
Oct18

Education Beat: Klee leads Beecher bid for students on Flint’s north side

By Harold C. Ford The Beecher Community School District (BCSD) on Flint’s near north side has shared more information on the $20 million renovation of its mostly-abandoned Beecher High School campus at the corner of Saginaw Street and Coldwater Road.  The district’s superintendent, Richard Klee, provided details on the project in a presentation to BCSD retirees in Frankenmuth on Sept. 25, 2024.  “The big news is facilities” “The big...

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Meet the candidates for Genesee County Sheriff
Oct15

Meet the candidates for Genesee County Sheriff

By Madeleine Graham With the November 5 election fast approaching, East Village Magazine sat down with the two candidates running for Genesee County Sheriff, Democratic incumbent Chris Swanson and Republican candidate Jeff Salzeider, to learn more about each man and their platform. Salzeider resides in Montrose and is a former United States Marine Corps officer who served 30 years on both active and reserve duty from 1984 to 2014....

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