Here's your local news at a glance for Wednesday, the 9th of September.
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🎭 Culture
Flint’s free Levitt AMP Music Series will end on Sept.
15 with Cabildo performing a blend of Latin, folk, cumbia and ska at Totem Books from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.—marking the season finale on the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month that has united the community.
Bikes on the Bricks returns for its 19th year in downtown Flint from Friday, Sept.
11 to Sunday, Sept. 13—featuring motorcycle competitions, live music, food, and merchandise sales. Downtown streets close at 6 a.m. Saturday—allowing for ride registration and parking.
Flint’s Got Talent competition will feature nearly a dozen local performers from singers to poets on Wednesday, Sept.
16 at 7:00 p.m. at the FIM Capitol Theatre. The free event is part of Flint Under the Stars and is co-hosted by Community Foundation of Greater Flint & WOW Outreach.
Matthew Ball, known as The Boogie Woogie Kid, will perform swing and American songbook classics at the McCarty Branch — located at 2071 S.
Graham Road — on Monday, Sept. 14 at 2:30 p.m. The free event will feature tunes from Gershwin standards to Beatles hits.
🎓 Education
Beecher High School reopened its original campus today (after 22 years) at the corner of Saginaw and Coldwater.
The 18 million dollars renovation, supported by a 10 million dollars grant from the Charles Stewart Foundation, now offers 20 classrooms for up to 500 students as part of the district's rebirth.
Flint Community Schools will begin demolishing the former Central High School building at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, marking a milestone in the district’s plan for a new high school campus set to open in 2028.
The project is funded by the C.S. Mott Foundation.
🏥 Health
Early Detection Day will take place tomorrow, Sept.
10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at McKinley Community Center at 249 Peer Ave. in Flint — offering free cancer screenings and education on breast, HPV, gastrointestinal, and lung cancer prevention.
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