DAVISON — Planned changes to this year’s Davison Festival of Flags are winning glowing reviews from local officials who say they like the direction the Chamber of Commerce is taking.  More...

LANSING — State Representative Pam Faris (D-Clio) introduced legislation last week, to create a fundraising license plate for the Girl Scouts of America.  More...

STUDENTS DONATE — Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hahn Intermediate School sixthgraders in Davison held a coin drive to benefit the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan. More...

The January new-vehicle selling rate is off to a strong start in 2013, with the highest retail selling rate for the month of January in five years, according to a monthly sales forecast developed by J.D. More...

Nearly 800,000 people braved some of the coldest weather of the year to visit the North American International Auto Show this past week at Cobo Hall. More...

FLINT — Kyle Caldwell, who for five years served as president and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA), has joined the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation as program director for its Pathways Out of Poverty grantmaking team.  More...

FLINT TWP. — Patsy Lou Williamson has announced Executive Vice President, Larry White is now part owner of the Patsy Lou Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Chevy preowned and Megalot dealerships, located at the corner of Corunna and Linden Roads.  More...

Getting it right   An article in the Jan. 24 edition should have listed Hippy Tat's Tattoos in the Davison Index Best of the Best section. — M.G.  Men’s event at IMA Brookwood   More...

The Rhône River travels hundreds of miles from its start as a little stream at the base of a glacier 7,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps. More...

Concerts coming up at The Machine Shop   FLINT — The Machine Shop, 3539 S. Dort Hwy., Flint, will present Blackberry Smoke, with special guests Shadows Fall, Dying Fetus and The Contortionist, Feb. 1. More...

ART/THEATRE  TUESDAYS Messy Art Tuesdays at the Flint Children’s Museum, 1602 W. University Ave., Flint from 1-3 p.m. Details: Call Kimberly Roddy at 810-767- 5437.   More...

I read an article this week which really riled me up. More...

The Davison DDA would like to thank everyone who made this first year Health Fair a success. Many vendors showed off their products with demonstration that inculded life saving procedures and healthy living ideas and products enjoyed by all.  More...

Mr. Lott, I don't care if you own guns. It's totally your right to own them as the Constitution, federal and state and local laws allow you to do so. But where does your freedom end and mine begin?  More...

More and more couples planning to walk down the aisle are embracing save-the-date cards to give guests adequate notice that there is a party on the horizon.  More...

BURTON — When Todd McPhail died suddenly Nov. 19, he left behind a daughter, Savannah, 4.  Now friends of the 1993 Bentley graduate are planning a benefit in his memory to help build an educational trust fund for the young girl.  More...

FLINT — Matthew L. Norwood of Grand Blanc was sworn in as Mott Community College’s newest Trustee during the MCC Board of Trustees regular meeting, Jan. More...

FLINT — The two losses the Davison varsity girls’ basketball team started this season with must have been incredible learning experience. That’s because since falling to Midland Dow on Nov. 27 and Clarkston on Nov. More...

KALAMAZOO — After letting Farmington take a win that was in hand last Wednesday, Davison’s hockey team regrouped to defeat Portage Central, 4-1, on the road.  More...

DAVISON — The Davison boys’ basketball team hosted Flint Southwestern Academy in a Saginaw Valley League-South contest on Monday. More...