Celebrating and Nurturing Life in Southwest Michigan's River Country
June jobless rates in Southwest Michigan were little changed over the month according to the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth (DELEG).
Jobless rates in six counties in the region (Jackson, Kalamazoo, Van Buren, Berrien, Barry, and Branch) edged up over the month, increasing by an average of 0.3 percentage points. Four counties (Cass, [...]
The final input meeting for the 9-County Non-Motorized Planning Project in Southwest Michigan took place Thursday evening (July 15th) at the Kalamazoo County Fairground Expo Center in Kalamazoo.
To learn more about the session, click on the following link to a Kalamazoo Gazette story by Jef Rietsma: Plan outlines trails for Southwest Michigan
The final input meeting for the 9-County Non-Motorized Planning Project in Southwest Michigan will be held on Thursday, July 15th, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Kalamazoo County Fairground Expo Center Room A.
Two guest speakers will discuss the ongoing trail user survey that is taking place on the Kal-Haven Trail, Kalamazoo River Valley and the Battle [...]
St. Joseph County’s unemployment rate increased in March to 15.3 percent, up from 14.4 percent in February and 14.9 percent in March 2009.
Those are the numbers in the latest Labor Market Analysis for Southwest Michigan from the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth and its Office of Labor Market Information.
Unemployment rates increased in January in Branch, Cass and St. Joseph counties.
In fact, seasonal job cuts in construction, private and public education, retail trade, and leisure and hospitality, and moderate layoffs in manufacturing resulted in January 2010 jobless rate increases for all area counties.
Seasonal job cuts in construction and moderate layoffs in manufacturing resulted in December 2009 jobless rate increases for all counties in Southwest Michigan.
Unemployment rates rose in December by an average of nine-tenths of a percentage point.
Nearly 30 people were on hand Thursday evening (January 28th) to engage in ‘trail talk for St. Joseph County.’
The two-hour session in the Dresser Business Development Center at Glen Oaks Community College was staged to gather input from anyone with an interest in trails, bike lanes and non-motorized facilities as part of a project to [...]
The Southwest Michigan Planning Commission would like to invite anyone with an interest in trails, bike lanes and non-motorized facilities to attend a public input meeting for St. Joseph County later this week.
The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will take place Thursday evening (December 10th) from 6:30 to 8:30 in the [...]
The unemployment rate in St. Joseph and Branch counties dropped slightly in October and was unchanged in Cass County according to the latest labor market analysis from the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth/Office of Labor Market Information.
KALAMAZOO – Adopting a formal statement on the topic at its Nov. 2 public meeting, the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees voiced support for the administration to actively pursue the next steps in the process of developing a school of medicine. WMU President John M. Dunn also announced an anonymous gift made for this [...]