Jackson, MI — Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan (GSHOM) is pleased to announce Girl Scouts is NOT canceled.

GSHOM is here and ready to support girls through the best girl-led leadership program. With many extracurricular activities on pause, Girl Scouting remains the safest option for girls to build courage, confidence, and character, while building lifelong friendships – even from home.

JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 21, 2020 – The Consumers Energy Foundation today announced a $250,000 grant to Youth Solutions to provide skills development to expand its Jobs for Michigan’s Graduates’ Postsecondary and Career Pathways Accelerator initiative to nearly 8,000 students across the Lower Peninsula.

Consumers Energy is hosting a series of virtual public open houses to gather suggestions for its Clean Energy Plan, which eliminates coal and helps achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Zoom forum October 15^th featuring the candidates seeking to represent Michigan’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

JACKSON, MI - (October 8, 2020) Henry Ford Allegiance Health’s new, technologically advanced hybrid operating room combines the powerful imaging equipment of a cardiac catheterization lab with the specialized features of an operating room designated for open-heart surgery.

JACKSON, Mich., Sept. 29, 2020 – Consumers Energy is providing $12 million to help Michigan residents and small businesses with energy bills, making an unprecedented commitment to helping customers and communities the COVID-19 pandemic has affected.

Job sites evolve as workers and business owners adopt new protocols 

JACKSON, Mich., September 24 – The Jackson YMCA announced that the Dawn Foods Corporate Giving Program (formerly the Dawn Foods Foundation) has reallocated $1 million in funding to the campaign for a YMCA healthy living campus in downtown Jackson. Dawn Foods was an early major campaign donor with a $2 million commitment; $1 million toward the campaign and another $1 million allocated toward the endowment. Following an announcement in January 2020 from the Consumers Energy Foundation of a matching capital campaign grant of up to $3 million, Dawn Foods reallocated the endowment funding to the capital campaign.

HILLSDALE, MI, September 2020 – John R. Waldron, President and CEO of County National Bank, announced the recent promotion of Stephanie Thomas to AVP – Loan Operations for County National Bank (“CNB”).

DETROIT and JACKSON, MI, September 22, 2020 – DTE Energy and Consumers Energy have announced they are joining a first-of-its-kind pledge to make interstate travel easier for electric vehicle (EV) owners by 2022. Six energy companies will join in facilitating the construction of a vast network of fast charging stations across the Midwest from Michigan to Kansas, making it possible for EV owners to drive longer distances without worrying about their next charge.