KALAMAZOO — A 13-year-old Portage girl who imagined being a Chinese worker on the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s has won first place in a national essay-writing contest. Jeannie Monroe ...

PORTAGE – A 19-foot mural depicting the former stairway for boarding the Pennsylvania Railroad in Portage a ... panels by Portage Area High School art students, based on the winning design ...

Huschak said the historical group loved the design public art consultant ... the underpass near the Portage Station Museum at 400 Lee St., which used to serve as a railroad station.