I'm 95.3 WBCK's Brand Manager, and Director of Content for Townsquare Media's Battle Creek Stations and host of the 95.3 WBCK Morning Show. I've been with the station for 31 years. I'm also a professional musician, playing the trumpet and sax in the Gull Lake Jazz Orchestra, Otsego Jazz Ensemble, Lew Boyd Band and the Kalamazoo Big Band, (which I co-lead.) You might have seen me on stage at the Great Escape Stage Company, Marshall Civic Players, and the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Civic Theaters. My wife Debbie and I live east of Climax (the Greater West Leroy Metropolitan Area) with our dogs Ellie and Riker and cats Lenny and Earl. I'm a Tiger fan have a huge vegetable garden, and love local history.
Tim Collins
How Battle Creek Found Relief from the Heat Wave of 1931
21 Year Old Betty Fox Captivated the City
Cereal Tycoon W.K. Kellogg Had a Fixation with the Number 7
The founder of cereal giant Kellogg's, W.K. Kellogg, had a fixation, and some might say an obsession with the number 7.
July 12, 1982: The Last Checker Cab Made in Kalamazoo
See Listener Todd Harroun's two restorations
The Great Wall of Michigan North of Houghton – Manmade or Not?
'Michigan's Great Wall' in the far northern Keweenaw Peninsula has baffled scholars for years. Is it natural or not?
COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Manufactured in Kalamazoo
Pfizer and Partner Have Started Testing
Calhoun County Has Its First Positive Coronavirus Case
Patient has not travelled outside of Southwest Michigan
Battle Creek’s Biggest Fire Happened February 18th, 1902
It was a miracle that only one life was lost.
Rush Limbaugh Announces He Has Lung Cancer
He made the announcement live on his Monday radio show
Alamo Drafthouse to Leave Kalamazoo
It was becoming a favorite place for a lot of people in West Michigan, but apparently not enough people as Alamo Drafthouse announces they are leaving downtown Kalamazoo. Let's hope a new operator will come in and keep it going.
The Kalamazoo location was the only theater in the Texas-based Alamo chain in Michigan...