Welcome To Our Village!
Thank you for joining us here at the exciting opening of our new website. We are so grateful to be back online after months of repairs and redesign. It has been a tumultuous year for us, beginning with the death of our founder, Gary Custer, in January, and the crash of our old site last spring. But here we are back, brighter, committed and in what Gary used to call the “East Village state of mind.” That means we’re feisty as ever...
Local news still matters, even as the “how” changes
By Jan Worth-Nelson I just lost my temper. The trigger was an early morning solicitation to subscribe to the Flint Journal — our hometown paper, right? I asked the young voice with a Southern accent where she was calling from. Missouri, she said. Missouri? “Missouri?” I shouted, “I want nothing to do with a newspaper in my home town that outsources its business to another state!” And I hung up. Okay, so it was an...
Bicycle culture rolling around new spokes in Flint
By Andrew Keast and Jan Worth-Nelson If anybody provides evidence that Flint might be transforming itself – from the wheels up — into a bicycle-friendly culture, it’s Danny Moilanen, 28, owner of Vehicle City Tacos and a self-described “social cycler.” In 2012, he and a few of his friends created the Thursday Night Party Ride, an easygoing summertime tour through Flint. It starts at 9 p.m. and pauses every 15 minutes or so for...
News About Us
Welcome to our village! Thank you for joining us here at our website. We are so grateful to be here online, after months of repairs and redesign in 2015. It has been a tumultuous four years for us, beginning with the death of our founder, Gary Custer, in January 2015, and the crash of our old site soon thereafter. But here we still are, brighter, committed and in what Gary used to call the “East Village state of mind.” That means...
The Latest Edition of East Village Magazine Is Available For Download Here (pdf)
