Historical Society of Battle Creek

TreeHouse Foods says in a release Wednesday that their facility at the corner of Dickman Rd. and McCamly will be closed over the next year, with around 84 employees being cut. TreeHouse bought the former Ralston plant from ConAgra Foods in February 2016, and by November of that year they had cut employees by 100.

Battle Creek's Sojourner Truth Institute, established in 1998 as an inspiration of the late Dr. Velma Laws-Clay, plans an online expansion as well as the establishing of its own foundation. Kimberly Holley, director of the new Sojourner Truth Foundation, tells WBCK the foundation will be an operating foundation, organized as an affiliate of the Battle Creek Community Foundation...