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There’s a forecast for flurries, family favorites and joyful song on Sunday afternoon, December. 8, when the Muskegon Community College performance ensembles join together in downtown Muskegon for a fun-filled Holiday Pops concert.

Tell Al Thomas his electric dragster looks humble, and it doesn’t faze him. He has been working on cars and teaching auto technology long enough to know better. The humble looking “Short Circuit,” he points out, is “the fastest 192-volt vehicle in the world.” That’s no empty boast. The car, built by students at Muskegon […]

Steve Martin’s comedy “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” will be presented on Dec. 4-8 by Muskegon Community College’s Overbrook Players. Tickets, which are $10 for the public and $5 for all students, faculty and employees of MCC, are available at the MCC Overbrook Theater Box Office.

The Community Foundation for Muskegon County (CFFMC) has announced that its Foundation Scholarship Program for Muskegon, Oceana, Mason and Manistee counties is currently accepting applications for the 2014-15 academic year. The CFFMC administers more than 275 scholarship funds, including 13 earmarked for Muskegon Community College students, as well as hundreds of awards for graduating high school […]

Carl Wilkins, an eyewitness to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, will educate and inspire audiences with his riveting presentation “World Outside My Shoes” on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at MCC’s Stevenson Center Room 1100. The free presentation, which begins at 12:20 p.m., is sponsored and underwritten by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of […]

A new world record set last month by a dragster built by Muskegon Community College students is drawing more attention to the college’s commitment to alternative energy research. “Short Circuit” isn’t just any dragster. It’s an electric dragster that set a world record by racing at a top speed of 109 mph down a ¼-mile […]

Area residents are encouraged to provide feedback to Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson on Tuesday, Nov. 19, when they can speak with her representative, Barb Vander Veen, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Bistro hallway inside the campus main entrance. “We want to hear comments and questions from area residents,” Johnson said. […]

Steve Martin’s Comedic Play Comes to MCC Overbrook Theater Dec. 4-8 Steve Martin’s comedy “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” will be presented on Dec. 4-8 by Muskegon Community College’s Overbrook Players.  Tickets, which are $10 for the public and $5 for MCC students, go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the MCC Overbrook Theater Box […]

College Visit Day for high school juniors and seniors takes place at MCC on Thursday, Dec. 5. The registration deadline has been extended to Friday, Nov. 22. The free event will be held from 9:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m. in Stevenson Center Room 1100.

MCC is celebrating its 14th annual International Education Week, a joint initiative with the U.S. Departments of Education, with events this week that include a student panel discussion, screenings of a documentary film, a travelogue and food.