Mike Thompson
46 posts
Saginaw City cleanup set for May 14
Saginaw’s second annual “Team Up to Clean Up” is seeking volunteers to gather at City Hall beginning at…
May 1, 2022
Council delays action on First Ward ‘light industrial’ zoning
A City Council vote on rezoning the First Ward’s North Washington Avenue corridor to allow “light industrial” uses…
May 1, 2022
‘It’s up to you, Sag-inaw, Sag-inaw!’: Career center teens become hometown Ambassadors
Imagine you are a high schooler in Saginaw, and many of your teenage peers are expressing desires to…
May 1, 2022
‘Twilight Zone’ at Hoyt Library
Unless you were born before 1863, Saginaw's Hoyt Library contains at least one newspaper from the precise date that you entered the world.
April 2, 2022
Future of First Ward: ‘Green Zone’ or small industry?
A proposed Saginaw zoning change would allow small or "light" industrial manufacturers to locate on North Washington Avenue from Second Street (now named for Roosevelt Austin) up to Tenth Street, near First Ward Community Center.
April 2, 2022
What’s up with the new YDC? Check out their new house
Leaders of Saginaw's second-year Youth Development Corp. are aiming to establish their own community imprint. Their initial big signal is a home being built near Burt and Fourteenth streets, with construction pros guiding voc-ed students in the project.
April 2, 2022
Home-build pupil aims to run her own company
Aaliyah Villegas aims to build a career in construction management by helping to build the first home for Saginaw's Youth Development Corp., YDC.
Saginaw teacher and activist holds MLK memories
Lula Woodard will be an honoree in Saginaw’s main Martin Luther King holiday event, and she feels a…
January 13, 2022
In Saginaw, we can become “eagles” in our guest speaker’s spirit.
Joe Madison, civil rights leader and radio host, explained to a Saginaw teleconference why he is known as…
January 8, 2022
Fairgrounds, Manufacturing Plant sites become local ‘badlands’, Baker-Perkins property finally in line for cleanup
In most older neighborhoods, the main eyesores are rundown abandoned houses and overgrown vacant lots. The area east…