What’s in store for these middle-schoolers? ‘A great year’

August 27, 2025

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Northview — “We’re going to have a great year.”

So says Lucy Shomin, administrative assistant for Crossroads Middle School and the first face many see when they walk through the main doors.

School News Network paid a visit to Crossroads on Northview’s first day of classes to check in with students and staff. The middle-schoolers say they’re looking forward to a new year of learning — especially history — while the desk at the front office was buzzing with activity.

Check out what they had to say about the upcoming school year in the brief video interview above.

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Beth Heinen Bell

Beth Heinen Bell is associate editor, copy editor and reporter covering Northview, Kent City and Grandville. She is an award-winning journalist who got her professional start as the education reporter for the Grand Haven Tribune. A Calvin University graduate and proud former Chimes editor, she later returned to Calvin to help manage its national writing festival. Beth has also written for The Grand Rapids Press and several West Michigan businesses and nonprofits. She is fascinated by the nuances of language, loves to travel and has strong feelings about the Oxford comma.