Flint’s Pride Festival continues to reflect community identities and prioritize health
By Melodee Mabbitt This year, Flint’s Pride Festival will once again be shaped in response to the need for disease prevention and centered on supporting identities that are most vulnerable within Flint’s LGBTQ+ communities. In response to COVID-19 precautions, planning is underway for Flint’s Pride to include its annual cookout and a series of small events throughout the coming summer, rather than the annual festival in June. It...
East Village Magazine Readership Survey – Help Shape The EVM
East Village Magazine needs your help. After 43 years, we’ve reached a crossroad. We would greatly appreciate your input and assistance as we explore the possible future forks in that road. Our crossroad is this: our staff is extremely small (volunteers and minimally paid reporters), and the amount of local news which we feel needs to be covered has grown. Flint is a fascinating and vibrant community which we believe has many stories...
City Council members subpoena each other and six city officials in Monday’s finance committee meeting
By Tom Travis Monday’s city council finance committee meeting spiraled into a debacle ending with most of the council members, the mayor, and four administration directors being subpoenaed by various council members. The only council members not subpoenaed were Maurice Davis (2nd Ward), Herb Winfrey (6th Ward) and Monica Galloway (7th Ward). Subpoenaed City Officials Here is a list provided by the City Clerk’s office of...
Lapeer MCC campus hosts COVID-19 vaccination Spring Drive-Up event on Friday, May 21
Hamilton Community Health Network is partnering with the Lapeer County Senior Coalition to provide a community wide COVID-19 vaccination event. The event will be hosted at Mott Community College’s Lapeer Campus by providing COVID-19 vaccines on Friday, May 21 located at 550 Lake Dr., Lapeer, MI. There will be 100 Johnson & Johnson vaccines available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or until they run out, according to a press release....
Neighborhood Engagement Hub seeking volunteers for citywide cleanup – Saturday, May 15
The Neighborhood Engagement Hub is seeking volunteers to participate in Flint for a citywide cleanup day on Saturday, May 15. During the cleanup, neighborhood groups and individual residents will be completing projects on more than 29 sites throughout the city’s nine wards. The citywide cleanup is supported through a grant from the Mott Foundation, awarded through the Foundation’s Focus on Flint initiative. Mott granted $82,147 to the...
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