by Kelly Gleason Looking for family fun this weekend? Here are LittleGuide Detroit’s suggestions. Friday, July 27 – Sunday, July 29: Midtown Inc. commissioned life sized puppet performances of the last elephants at the Detroit Zoo and you won’t want to miss the story of Wanda and Winky Go To California @ New Center Park. […]
Going green has been a benefit to Detroit youth for the past 20 years, but not only because of improvements to the environment. The Greening of Detroit celebrated two decades of employing local youth in the community July 25, announcing that 2,000 boys and girls have worked in the Green Corps since 1998, earning a […]
The vacant Holcomb Elementary school and the surrounding area in Old Redford are getting a new lease on life with a $6 million investment The school, which has been empty for nearly 10 years, will become a 32-unit senior cooperative housing community called the St. Matthew Cooperative. The renovation will also include walking paths, parks […]
It’s May and a third grader – let’s call her Susie – is having trouble grasping math. She keeps struggling, but when June comes around her grades are good enough and she is passed on to fourth grade. There she’s expected to be ready for math at that grade level, but she isn’t and most […]