For a donation less than the price of a fast-food meal, you can adopt a Great Lakes Sturgeon, an ancient, threatened fish species that’s the focus of a major 20-year environmental restoration project in the Saginaw River system.
Users are praising restoration work on the Frank N. Andersen Nature Trail. Over a half mile of the popular trail – focused on the stretch between Lauria Road and Mussell Beach Drive-In – underwent extensive repairs.
The Bay County Soil Conservation District was awarded a $39,000 grant through EGLE to purchase a new No-Till Drill. The compact drill allows property owners to seed small plots of land, creating habitats for pollinators and filling otherwise unusable land with wildflowers.
The Antique Toy & Firehouse Museum is renovating the former Fire Station No. 3, located at the edge of Downtown Bay City. In the end, the building will house fire trucks and toys, classrooms for lessons in fire safety, and even offer space to two other local history organizations.
Bay City Electric Light & Power offers free energy check-ups to customers who want to reduce their utility bills.
Purtell’s Restaurant and Ice Cream Shoppe opened in 1925 as a dairy. Over the last century, Purtell’s has evolved. Today, the menu includes scratch-made soups, pies, and abundant comfort foods.
The Linwood Scenic Access project, a decades-long dream, has opened to the public this fall. This new site provides free access to the Saginaw Bay, preserves the shoreline, and fosters a sense of community pride.
Progressive Mechanical – a Clawson-based firm that designs, builds and installs mechanical processing and fire protection systems – expects to employ about 25 union workers in its new Monitor Township facility.
Bay County received $9 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds and another $2 million in federal dollars from a congressional appropriation to turn what was once an iconic furniture store into a community health center.
High school students are earning real-world experience in the skilled trades even before they graduate from the Bay-Arenac ISD Career Center
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