Lenawee County is home to Michigan’s oldest fair, longest-running opera house, and largest speedway. What empowers a region to keep these places and traditions alive throughout the years? Having a vibrant community invested in a solid economy provides a variety of...
Adrian, MI – Recently, fifty students from Adrian Public Schools represented Lenawee County in the annual Math Olympics held at Saginaw Valley State University. The event featured two levels of competition: Level I which included general math through and...
Ryan Waggoner had always enjoyed food and cooking, and since he had done a great deal of traveling, he found some amazing varieties of salsa in various parts of the country. When he moved back to Lenawee, he realized there was a severe lack in this area. According to...
The Childcare funding received by Lenawee Now recently was provided through the Early Childhood Investment Corporation (ECIC). We applied for their competitive funds. Their regional planning coalition funding allows Lenawee Now, the Hillsdale Economic Development...
The second annual Career Connections countywide job fair was held Wednesday, March 22, 2023, and it more than doubled the participation levels of last year. The event allowed more than 40 employers to meet with over 275 local adults, college students and high school...
Last Saturday was the culmination of a great deal of hard work, preparation, and innovation for teams of high schoolers in Lenawee and Jackson Counties, as they pitched the business concepts, they had been working on for the past 6 weeks for the opportunity to win...
“What does your mom say you do?” I’ve heard this is a popular topic of conversation among economic developers at industry conferences. Since economic development is an incredibly multi-faceted industry, answers may vary. Having worked with various initiatives in...
The You Be the Chemist Regional Challenge, a Quiz Bowl style event developed by the Chemical Education Foundation, a national organization devoted to the education of chemistry, was held on March 8th in the Performing Arts Center of Adrian High School. This event,...
Lenawee Now Board of Directors has named lifelong Lenawee Resident, Patrick Farver as its new Executive Director, as of March 15. Farver is a seasoned business leader with experience doing business on the regional, national, and international levels. He has over 40...
High schoolers from across the region gained a greater knowledge of entrepreneurship by hearing from an entrepreneur panel and got the opportunity to create and pitch their own product idea at Spark, the first event in a 6-week program designed to help high school...
