Parchment Update

Meet Up and Eat Up serves free meals to kids 18 and under! SUN Meals To-Go is a new program letting families pick up 7-day food packs for each child! Parchment Schools Food Service Director Holly Wait shares information about both programs on this Parchment Update.

The Parchment School District Art Show Grand Opening is this Wednesday, April 15, at 5:00 pm! On this month’s Parchment Update, art teachers Kaitlin Bisel, Hillary Campbell, and Alison Moore will share details.

Do you ever need a tool that you don’t own but don’t really want to buy? On this week’s Parchment Update, Community Homeworks Tool Library Program Manager Rachel McCartney shares information on how you can become a member of the Tool Library and borrow tools to work on your home and yard.

Ten Parchment School District finalists are headed to the Michigan Regional Amazing Shake competition on March 11th! This week’s Parchment Update features excerpts from the final school round as they spoke one on one with Library Ambassador Karen Woodworth.

Cookies, cocoa, and music! This week’s Parchment Update features highlights of the Holiday Chocolate, held at the Parchment Community Library on December 3, 2025. You can see the video edition at www.parchmentlibrary.org.

It’s the 20th year for Parchment Wassailing and the 30th year for the Holiday Chocolate! They’ll be held on Wednesday, December 3rd, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.  On this week’s Parchment Update, Parchment Wassailing organizer Andrea Pacheco discusses new and returning Wassailing activities.

This week’s Parchment Update is the Parchment Veterans Ceremony held on November 11, 2025. Please note that the windy weather that day had an impact on the sound and some of the camera positioning.

The second annual Parchment Veterans Ceremony will be held at the traditional time of 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 11th at the Parchment Veterans Memorial next to City Hall. On this week’s Parchment Update, Pastor Joe Shaler gives a preview of the ceremony.

Have you noticed the new picnic tables and trees in Riverfront Park on Commerce Lane? On this week’s Parchment Update, Cheryl Lyon-Jenness from the City of Parchment Parks and Recreation Committee shares the recent improvements happening as part of the “Restore the Bank, Cool the Corridor” project and previews what will happen next.

The Kalamazoo Curling Club is working on a plan to move to a new building in Parchment! On this week’s Parchment Update, President Arlene Carter and Vice President Kris Rieck share details and an invitation to join them for a Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, October 26th at 1:00 p.m. at the corner of Bellisle and Island. (Bring a lawn chair!)

This is Public Media Network's recording of the Parchment City Commission Candidate Forum held by the Parchment Community Library September 29, 2025 in partnership with the League of Women Voters of the Kalamazoo Area and PMN. Six candidates (Genevieve Gibson, Kristen Capelli, Robert D. Britigan III, Michael Conner, Nina Mihalek, and Elizabeth Seeger) shared their perspectives on questions regarding issues facing the City of Parchment. Moderated by Karen Woodworth, Library Ambassador.