Author Archives: Ken Delaney
Family Health Center gears up for its annual Back To School Bash next month
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Over 1,000 kids are expected to attend the Family Health Center's annual Back To School Bash, which is now scheduled for Friday, August 9 in Kalamazoo. Organizers say this...
Jul 26, 2024 (logo courtesy of the Family Health Center)
Early voting begins at four Kalamazoo County sites Saturday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In the run up to the August 6 primary election in Michigan, eight days of Early Voting begins Saturday. Four early voting centers have been established in Kalamazoo County...
Jul 26, 2024 City of Portage Clerk's staff outside Portage City Hall (courtesy of City of Portage)
New senior living and assisted living facility to break ground in Portage in August
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Officials with Trilogy Health Services say they will break ground on a new campus in Portage next month. Trilogy says the investment aims to expand senior living and assiste...
Jul 25, 2024 An architect's rendering of the new Trilogy Health Services senior living and assisted living facility to be built in Portage (courtesy Trilogy Health Services)
Drug bust at Kalamazoo home leads to arrest
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team (KVET) says the search of a home in the 400 block of South Rose Street in Kalamazoo Wednesday yielded over 20 pounds of crystal metha...
Jul 25, 2024 Drugs confiscated from a drug bust in the 400 block of South Rose Street in Kalamazoo (courtesy of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
Shooting at Fox Ridge Apartments now called a homicide
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man who the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety was gunned down in broad daylight has now died. KDPS says the shooting Wednesday at the Fox Ridge Apartments in the 130...
Jul 25, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
New ad campaign looks to draw more visitors to Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A new ad campaign targeting people in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin has been launched, trying to attract them to visit Kalamazoo. Discover Kalamazoo unv...
Jul 25, 2024 (courtesy Discover Kalamazoo)
Metro Connect to help access businesses impacted by road construction in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - In an effort to address complaints from Kalamazoo businesses that road construction is driving customers away, the city this week announced a plan to provide free Metro Co...
Jul 25, 2024 Metro Connect bus (courtesy Metro Connect)
Cross-country cyclists looking to support people with disabilities to stop in Kalamazoo Saturday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A group of cyclists who are making a cross-country journey to raise awareness and funds for people with disabilities will make an overnight stop in Kalamazoo Saturday. 44 ...
Jul 24, 2024 (courtesy of The Ability Experience)
Carlson sentenced to 37 ½ to 60 years in prison in Allegan County child sexual abuse case
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM/WHTC-AM/FM) - A Wyoming, Michigan man who pled no contest to 26 charges for sexually abusing a two-year-old girl he had been hired to babysit in Allegan has been sentenced to 3...
Jul 24, 2024 Gary Christopher Carlson (photo courtesy Allegan Co. Sheriff's Dept.)
Man dies from fall inside abandoned building in Parchment
PARCHMENT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A man police say was removing scrap metal from an abandoned mill in Parchment has died after falling inside the building Tuesday morning. The Township of Kalamazoo Police ...
Jul 23, 2024 BMN Network / CC
