Janice Holst

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Janice Holst was a reporter for SNN covering Kent City and Sparta. She has been both a teacher and a journalist. A former MLive reporter, she wrote features and covered local government and schools for Advance Newspapers for nearly two decades. She also was a recipe columnist and wrote features for Mature Life Style and occasional entertainment pieces for On The Town magazines. She lives in Sparta Township and enjoys spending some of her retirement hours writing the stories of the northern Kent County school districts.

Parents go to school, students learn at home

Kent City Janice Holst

Parents are Teachers program helps parents find ways to encourage their children’s education outside the classroom...

From Grief and Recovery to Graduation

Grads with Grit Janice Holst

This high school senior survived a deadly car accident, determined to re-build his physical strength and graduate with his class...

A little school work, some crafts and a whole lot of listening build a great mentor relationship

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Church-based volunteer mentor Miss Judy, from Kid’s Hope, lends an ear and support to a fourth grader named Angel...

Science and math fun all month long

Sparta Janice Holst

A month of special Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) activities at this school culminated in a special costume presentation of fifth-graders representing a favorite scientist...

‘100 percent mesmerized by my job-this is what I get to do today’

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Making sure each student is recognized and learns life lessons are what matters, said this Cedar Springs teacher...

Meteorologist? Business owner? Investor? Students explore careers

Kent City Janice Holst

Kent City annually brings in professionals in multiple fields to expose students to future careers and get them thinking about the future...

Passion for dance, hometown values will follow this grad to college and beyond

Grads with Grit Janice Holst

Coping with loss, yet this graduate heads to college with confidence and hometown values...

Just learn the rules and stay safe

Kent City Janice Holst

School resource officers demonstrate they are all in for students, even when it comes to offering after school hunting safety courses...

Student team takes suspense film from classroom to the forest

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Cedar Springs film students had an opportunity to write and produce their own films for the school’s YouTube channel...

District voters asked to renew 10-year sinking fund

Sparta Janice Holst

On Tuesday, May 7 the Sparta Area Schools Board of Education will ask voters to renew its 1.25-mill sinking fund for an additional 10 years...

Expanding early childhood options part of renovation plan

Sparta Janice Holst

Staff are considering a plan to bring all early childhood programs and services together into a renovated space and increase services to families...

Boating course helps get students ready — safely — for summer fun

Kent City Janice Holst

In this class, all seventh-graders earn a boating safety certificate, required to drive any watercraft under parent supervision or on own at age of 16...

One extra year nets big reward: free college degree

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

'100 percent happy that I did it.' Middle College grad earned associates degree in half the time, free...

Are you one too? Cool Teachers create ‘something very special’

Kent City Janice Holst

For two decades, teachers around West Michigan have been honored by WGVU’s “Cool Teacher’ program. Kent City’s Anita Kosak has joined the list...

Take a ‘walk in the woods’ at this elementary school

Rockstar Teachers Janice Holst

A fifth-grade teacher’s hobby has transformed the hallways, with a carved woodland creature at nearly every classroom door...

The quest for scientific discovery

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

New curriculum has students discovering scientific principles on their own before memorizing them...

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