Dearborn Fire Department awarded $878,000 from FEMA

The money, awarded through the Assistance for Firefighters Grant (AFG) program, will be utilized to purchase vital equipment such as new radios for fire ground communications and turnout gear washing machines to reduce cancer exposure to firefighters.

Salina Green Schoolyards coming to Dearborn this fall

The neighboring Salina Elementary and Salina Intermediate schools in Dearborn are expanding their Green Schoolyards space as part of an approximately $425,000 project at the schools, funded mostly by grants, donations and in-kind support.