Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Stryker nearing approvals for new R & D facility
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The effort by the Stryker Corporation to secure tax cuts and other forms of corporate assistance cleared more hurdles yesterday when the Portage City Council and the Bro...
Mar 01, 2017
Sweetwater's: Lent signals start of donut-selling season
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — The day after Paczki Day signals the start of big business for a Kalamazoo and Battle Creek-area donut institution. It’s not quite in the Lenten spirit, but Sweetw...
Feb 28, 2017
Borgess dietician: Paczki a terrible dietary choice
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — It’s Fat Tuesday, the last day before Lent, and bakeries have been preparing for days creating the thousands of paczki that will be consumed at offices and homes t...
Feb 28, 2017
Sentencing in cold-case murder
PAW PAW (WKZO-AM/FM) — Junior Fred Blackston of Bangor has been given a 25-year-sentence for a drug related execution about 30 years ago, but could go free in about four years. It has been a lon...
Feb 28, 2017
Old practice challenged by new ruling
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County commissioners may have been in violation of a court order when they asked Commissioner John Gisler to open their last meeting with a prayer. It’s ...
Feb 28, 2017
With retirement ahead, Dunn hits the road
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — President John Dunn is still in charge at Western Michigan University, and will be for the next four months, but he is taking a farewell tour of the region this week. He...
Feb 28, 2017
Another armed hold-up in the Vine area
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — For the second time in four days, there has been a mugging in the Vine Neighborhood by a gun-toting robber. There were some differences between the two crimes. Friday, a...
Feb 28, 2017
Man jailed after failed armed robbery
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — A 17-year-old is jailed after Kalamazoo Public Safety says he pulled a gun on two people during a failed robbery early Tuesday in the 500 block of Pearl Street. It happe...
Feb 28, 2017
Spillane granted release from Western Michigan
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Linebacker Robert Spillane is no longer a part of the football team at Western Michigan University. “Linebacker Robert Spillane has requested and been granted his ...
Feb 28, 2017
Lack of winter causes crunch for syrup producers
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — An unseasonably warm February is said to be making things difficult for maple syrup producers in Michigan and across the country. Because cold weather is needed to contr...
Feb 27, 2017
