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The Neighborhood Investment Fund is a micro-grant program that Hazelwood Initiative Inc. offers at least once a year. Since launching in 2020, funding for this program has come out of the rent paid by Propel School. In 2024, the organization got a two-year, $50,000 grant that will make a second round possible for later this year.

If The Homepage were a ship, its regular contributors would be the crew. I would like to tell you about these generous, talented, energetic and intelligent people.

We have a lot of political coverage for you in this issue to inform your vote on May 20. So, I thought you might also appreciate some information about how we approach these matters.

My January was a little different this year. In the middle of the month, as a polar vortex loomed over North America, my family was leaving