Flint Rep’s ‘Godspell’ extended to Nov. 3
By EVM Staff There’s more “Godspell” at the FIM Flint Repertory Theatre this month. The Rep’s expected four-week run of its very unexpected take on the musical has been been extended through November 3, 2024. According to Ashley Poirior, FIM Manager of Patron Communications and Content Strategy, every performance across Godspell’s four-week run has sold out. “That’s never happened since Flint...
Village Life: Meeting SARAH
By Christina Collie SARAH and I met in 2020. She’s not so much a “who” but a “what,” and her name comes from a sci-fi tv show called “Eureka” that ran from 2006-2012. In the show, SARAH stands for “Self-Actuated Residential Automated Habitat,” a house-of-the-future outfitted with an AI consciousness that controls everything from food service to security communications. In my life, though, SARAH is the lovingly ironic name...
Education Beat: Klee leads Beecher bid for students on Flint’s north side
By Harold C. Ford The Beecher Community School District (BCSD) on Flint’s near north side has shared more information on the $20 million renovation of its mostly-abandoned Beecher High School campus at the corner of Saginaw Street and Coldwater Road. The district’s superintendent, Richard Klee, provided details on the project in a presentation to BCSD retirees in Frankenmuth on Sept. 25, 2024. “The big news is facilities” “The big...
Meet the candidates for Genesee County Sheriff
By Madeleine Graham With the November 5 election fast approaching, East Village Magazine sat down with the two candidates running for Genesee County Sheriff, Democratic incumbent Chris Swanson and Republican candidate Jeff Salzeider, to learn more about each man and their platform. Salzeider resides in Montrose and is a former United States Marine Corps officer who served 30 years on both active and reserve duty from 1984 to 2014....
The 2024 election: What’s on the ballot and what’s at stake?
By Paul Rozycki In a year when we’ve seen a sitting president step aside from his certain nomination, a former president facing criminal convictions over payments to a porn star and two assassination attempts, the nomination of the first African-American/Asian woman to be president, and unfounded claims about pet dogs and cats being eaten by Haitian immigrants, no one can say we’re witnessing a typical presidential election. But with...
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