The Region 5 MiFamily Engagement Center and the Bay-Arenac Great Start Collaborative offer several different ways parents and kids can connect while building key literacy skills. We promise that many of them will be fun for both kids and adults.
The Bay Area Community Foundation's Bay Commitment Scholarship Program has been a vital resource for first-generation college students in the Bay and Arenac counties since 2008, providing both financial assistance and crucial mentoring and support.
Your next great read (or ten great reads) await at the 2025 Friends of the Bay County Library System Book Sale, set for July 31-Aug. 2.
The Michigan Governor Youth Service Awards acknowledge Michigan youth for their achievements and encourages youth to engage in a lifetime of service.
Students from four local Great Lakes Bay Region schools – including John Glenn –participated in the 12th annual A.H. Nickless Innovation Award competition at SVSU. They presented months of hard work, planning, research, and development for a chance at $77,500 in college scholarships and grants.
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.
For more than 20 years, volunteers and community donations keep the Nickless Clinic open for people without insurance.
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers recently opened a School-Based Health Center at Bay City Central High School. The agency also is building a facility in Uptown Bay City while making plans to offer mobile vision services here.
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.
Six different clubs help students at the Bay-Arenac ISD Career Center get hands-on experience and insight into careers ranging from farming and marketing to health care and finance.
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