Sunday, May 25th, 2025

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Good morning, Portage. Here's your local news at a glance for Sunday, the 25th of May.
COMMUNITY NEWS
- ➤ Ruby, a 4-year-old lapdog at the SPCA of Southwest Michigan (surrendered and sometimes shy), has been looking for her forever home and may do better with a family that gives her patient walks and cuddles. WWMT
- ➤ Edison Initiatives, a nonprofit housing organization, hosted an open house in Kalamazoo on May 24 to welcome a family into a renovated home built by 70% volunteer work — 30% paid contractors. The program helps families build generational wealth by allowing them to pay under market value rent and purchase the home within five years. WWMT
- ➤ Volunteers gathered at Fort Custer National Cemetery on May 24th to plant 23,000 flags on veterans’ graves — a tribute in time for the Program of Remembrance held today at 2 p.m. WWMT
BUSINESS NEWS
- ➤ Two buildings on Westnedge Avenue were torn down this week to clear a lot for a new Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant — the first in Kalamazoo County — that will open by October. MLive
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