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A $3.8 million ferry, thought to be the first ever built in Michigan, will soon be under construction at Moran Iron Works in Onaway. Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry is investing in the project both to provide customers with the latest in ferry travel and to help bolster the Northeast Michigan economy.

Grand Rapids, Mich., (October 24, 2014) – Orthopaedic Associates of Michigan announced today that it is opening a second OAM NOW location at 4665 44th St. in Kentwood on Monday, Oct. 27. The opening marks an expansion of the orthopaedic urgent care service OAM launched in February 2013. “The demand for this service has been tremendous,” said James R. Ringler, MD, president of Orthopaedic Associates of Michigan. “We’re seeing 12-30 patients

In anticipation of the grand opening of the Knapp’s Centre building, 300 S. Washington Square, the Eyde Company and Historical Society of Greater Lansing (HSGL) are asking Lansing residents to share their memories of either working or shopping at the former J.W. Knapp’s Department Store. The top five submissions will receive invitations to attend the invite-only Knapp’s Centre grand opening event on Thursday, Nov. 13, and two tickets to the HSGL silent auction on Saturday, Nov. 15.

The Truscott Rossman Grand Rapids team has been promoting the “People’s Law School,” which Sinas Dramis Law Firm is partnering with the Michigan Association for Justice and Wayne State University’s Law School to bring to Grand Rapids for the first time.

Excerpt from MLive, 10/8/2014: LANSING, MI – Michigan’s first incubator devoted solely to fashion design will give budding clothing and accessory designers a shot at developing a collection and taking it to production. The incubator, located in a newly rehabbed former department store, opens Thursday in downtown Lansing. “When you’re looking at an industry like the fashion and apparel industry,

By Lupe Izzo in the Lansing State Journal, October 6, 2014 For nearly 50 years, the Cristo Rey Community Center has served people and families living throughout the tri-county area. The center opened in 1968 to help meet the needs of the poor, vulnerable, immigrants, migrants and all in need. The center’s staff heals the sick, feeds the hungry, protects

Rebuffed by both the state and the courts in its efforts to get a hospital tower built in Clarkston, McLaren Health Care has made a last-ditch effort to get what it wants by going to powerful members of the Michigan Senate.

LANSING, Mich. – Opponents today lined up to testify against legislation that would allow McLaren Health Care to build a hospital tower in Clarkston, even though the state and the courts have denied the project, saying it is not needed. They included a broad range of representatives from Michigan business, consumer, hospital, payer, union and other groups – all members

Excerpted from WOOD-TV on September 8, 2014: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new study says restoring the rapids to the Grand River could have an economic impact of up to nearly $20 million each year in Grand Rapids. The study released Monday was commissioned by Grand Rapids Whitewater, the group pushing to turn the river to its original state.

Merger creates one of largest HIEs in nation, offering participants unparalleled access to electronic health records MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. – Michigan Health Connect and Great Lakes Health Information Exchange have merged to form Great Lakes Health Connect, one of the nation’s largest providers of health information exchange, allowing hospitals, physicians and other medical professionals to quickly and securely share the