Butterfly House at Michigan State University

Pre-school students, from Ms. Tricia Bransford’s class at Shabazz Academy, have no problem attracting the butterflies on a recent trip to the Butterfly House

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Local Sorority Digs Deep to Help Garden Project

Planting Seeds: Katie Olender, Food Systems Project Coordinator, NorthWest Initiative; Health Committee Chairman of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Chi Epsilon Omega Chapter, Mrs. Harriette Coleman Gillum, a retired registered nurse; Mark Eitrem, Mid-Michigan Leadership Academy Superintendent and Deana M. Newman, President of the Chi Epsilon Omega Chapter.
TNCP Photo.

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Care Free Medical Gives Free Primary Care to Hundreds of Area’s Underinsursed

LANSING, MI — When Conrad Smith of Lansing was laid off from a 20-year dry walling career last December, he never dreamed the next few months would bring a diagnosis of Stage 2 prostate cancer from a team of volunteer doctors and an opportunity to volunteer his skills to give the gift of health to someone else.

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WKAR-TV’s Statewide Broadcast Focuses on the Education Funding Crisis

 EAST LANSING, MI – WKAR-TV will present a special, hour-long edition of Off the Record examining the crisis in Michigan’s K-12 education funding. Senior capitol correspondent Tim Skubick will anchor the special, airing Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m. on WKAR-TV and on many other public television stations at the following times:

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