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Beth Heinen Bell

Beth Heinen Bell
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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.

High-schoolers, second-graders team up for book project on digestive system 

There’s plenty to learn about the digestive system — and after partnering to write and illustrate children’s books about the body, these Kent City high-schoolers and second-graders are likely to remember all of it. 

$74.6 million bond proposal would fund improvements, additions district-wide

Approval of the bond, which comes with no expected tax rate increase, will allow the district to update learning spaces for today’s needs and address facility issues while protecting its general fund for instructional use.

Meet your future real estate agent, archaeologist & civil engineer

We spoke to three sixth-graders toward the end of a career unit to see what dreams they have for their future, and how this unit may have helped shed light on those ideas. 

Pi Day slices fun with math

What is irrational, contains more than 200 trillion digits, and shares a special day with Steph Curry’s birthday? A middle school math teacher would be happy to teach you
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