Good morning, Portage.

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.

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.

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.

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.