SAGINAW, MI — The first coats of paint will have to wait. Mark Flegenheimer said plans were delayed by about one week for a Madrid painter hired to paint a series of 70-year-old silos in Saginaw’s Old ...

SAGINAW, Mich. — It was once a gray eyesore. Now, it's home to the second largest mural in the United States. It all started with Mark Flegenheimer, the retired president and CEO of Michigan Sugar.

The American Midwest in the 1970s was a patchwork of rusty pickup trucks, front porch hangs, and walking the sidewalks of Chicago and Detroit. It was a decade when factory whistles marked time, grain ...