Free COVID-19 tests for all Flint residents available Sunday, Monday
This just in from the City of Flint: For Immediate Release To help get more City of Flint residents tested, the Michigan National Guard will operate a two-day, drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Flint. Testing will be available from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 24 and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, May 25 (Memorial Day) at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. The testing is available to any...
Council President Monica Galloway weighs in on Kate Fields’ actions and video meeting fracas
By Tom Travis City Council president Monica Galloway (7th Ward) expressed concern and “outrage” Thursday at how City Council Finance Committee Chair Kate Fields (4th Ward) led a Tuesday budget session. Galloway’s remarks came in a phone interview requested by EVM in follow-up to Fields’ actions during a Zoom session for council members and comments Fields made afterward to EVM. In that followup, Fields...
Police, fire budgets to cover new hires; EAB budget cut clarified in budget session shortened by mutes, protest defections
By Tom Travis Councilperson Kate Fields (4th Ward) and chair of the City Council Finance Committee found a way to shorten council business at Tuesday’s telephonic/video budget session. Before the session began and out of earshot of the public and the press, an interaction between Councilpersons Monica Galloway (7th Ward), Eric Mays (1st Ward) and Fields led Fields to mute Galloway and Mays. Then Fields removed both from the...
Avoid Flint River contact after treated stormwater and sewage discharge release today, water pollution control officials advise
City of Flint Utilities Department officials from the Water Pollution Control Division and the Genesee County Health Department are warning residents to avoid contact with the Flint River following a wet weather discharge of a treated mixture of stormwater and sewage early Tuesday morning. More information below: “SUBJECT: RETENTION / TREATMENT BASIN DISCHARGE “On 05/19/2020 @ 0248 am., the City of Flint Water Pollution...
Flint City Bike Tours inviting public to venture out today to see the city
With the coronavirus pandemic still keeping most people indoors, Flint City Bike Tours organizer Emily Doerr is inviting the public to get on their bikes, put on their helmets — and masks — and see the city on a free group tour starting at 6:05 p.m. today (Tuesday). The group will meet in front of Kettering University on Chevrolet Avenue, just south of University Avenue. Doerr emphasized she will be wearing a helmet and...
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