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Teressa Morris has been selling her baked yummies for more than a decade but opened her storefront just a year ago.

Check out Flint’s Million Dollar Cookie at The Cookie Jar

It's the size of an old 45 vinyl record and costs just $2, baked to perfection by Teressa Morris, owner of The Cookie Jar.

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The historic Flint Coolidge Elementary School is being transformed into a complex featuring 54 apartments as well as commercial and community space.
Coolidge School renovation project includes addition of 4-story Flint apartment complex

Years in the making, the former Coolidge Elementary school is being rehabbed into a neighborhood development with both apartments and commercial space — but that is just half of the project.  

Community leaders and dignitaries broke ground on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, on the Flint Cultural Center Academy, a charter school being built through a $35 million donation from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. This image shows the east facade of
What you need to know about the new, $35 million Flint Cultural Center Academy

Construction is officially underway on the Flint Cultural Center Academy, a charter school being constructed in downtown Flint.

IMG seeks storytellers with a passion for Michigan

Have a passion for storytelling and Michigan? Let's talk!

Back to the Bricks is one of several special events that draw thousands of people to downtown Flint over the summer. (File photo)
43 things to do this summer in Flint

So. Much. To. Do. Mark your calendars for these concerts, galas, festivals, fairs, celebrations—and fireworks. Plus a list of the dates of Genesee County's other area festivals.

Even before GoodBoy Clothing became a reality, Oaklin Mixon always left me feeling that things were good—and getting better.
Believing and dreaming: The making of a Flint entrepreneur

Oaklin Mixon came to Flint as a teenager in the foster system and fell in love with the city at a time when it wasn’t easy to fall in love with.

Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
Downtown Synagogue launches sukkah design competition; will award $15,000 for construction

As part of Detroit's Month of Design in September, as part of UNESCO's City of Design designation, the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is holding a design competition for sukkahs.

The leadership team at SIPI, which currently has contracts to provide training and to help local organizations build success.
Building Flint’s social enterprise and investment systems

A business offering wrap-around services, SIPI defines its mission as transforming legacy cities into economic hubs of opportunity for everyone.

Sandra Brewer on the set of the original Broadway production of "Pippin," in 1972.
Remembering Sandra Brewer: A Kamikaze in Three Acts

Broadway, potato festival—it didn’t matter. Famed local choreographer and dancer Sandra Brewer taught that people deserved to be entertained, and entertainers deserved a chance to give their best performance. Always.

Kala Wilburn is the woman behind the creation of Vehicle City Fashion Week, set for its sixth run Nov. 14-18, 2017.
Kala Wilburn: Meet the woman behind Vehicle City Fashion Week

Her clothing line is Fannie Lucille. Her passion is mentoring. Her movement is Fashion Against Violence. The result is Vehicle City Fashion Week.

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