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Portage
Sunday, August 31st, 2025
Good morning, Portage. Here's your local news at a glance for Sunday, the 31st of August.
CULTURE NEWS
- ➤ Portage native Ryan March is filming an alien invasion thriller titled 'The Crawling' on a remote 30-acre farm in Jackson County and at an undisclosed site in Kalamazoo—employing local Farmers Alley Theatre actors in supporting roles— as he returns home from Hollywood. The movie, featuring custom-made costumes by Hollywood legend Steve Wang, will finish filming the first week of September and is set for release in 2026. MLive
EDUCATION NEWS
- ➤ WMU trustees approved a $702 increase in tuition that raises the rate from $15,252 to $15,954 for the upcoming academic year—this change marks a 4.6% jump and means tuition is now 3.5 times higher than in 2001. MLive
SPORTS NEWS
- ➤ Gull Meadow Farms built a 6-acre corn maze on Gull Road to honor WMU hockey’s national title win in April—rows of corn show the words WMU and National Champs with hockey sticks and a puck. The design was mapped by a Utah company and set up using manual planting methods. MLive
TODAY'S FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it.
~ Naval Ravikant
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