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Sharing the Music

Byron Center Erin Albanese
The high school marching band recently performed an impromptu concert in the morning for students in the Room to Bloom childcare program at the...

Way Beyond ABC’s: Kindergartners Master a Growing List of Academic Skills

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Byron Center’s Brown Elementary School kindergarten students are seated on a carpet in a big circle fronting a white board. They are making sense...

Is Play Still a Kindergarten Expectation?

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Ask any parent of a dinosaur lover who can identify an Apatosaurus atage 3 if learning occurs during play, and the answer is an...

Districts go Three-for-Three on Tax Requests

Byron Center Charles Honey
Voters' decisive approvals of tax renewal requests Tuesday will provide crucial ongoing support of day-to-day operations in two Kent ISD districts, as well as...

Doing the Dance to Learn the Words

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Brown Elementary teacher Nikki Haitz flashed a card with the letters "qu" on it. Her first-graders reacted without hesitation. "Qu, baby we're stuck like glue!"...

District to Ask for Tax Renewals on Aug. 2

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Superintendent Dan Takens and the Board of Education will ask voters May 2, 2017 to consider a bond issue to fund expanded facility needs...

Skilled Trades Fair Offers New Opportunities

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Four days after Derek Mabie turned 18 he started working at Swoboda, a Kentwood-based automotive parts manufacturer. Since then, Mabie, a tool-room technician, has nearly...

Science Learning through Play, Discovery

Byron Center Erin Albanese
As Next Generation Science Standards are implemented in classrooms nationwide, students are beginning to think like scientists as young as kindergarten, paving the way...

‘Like Brothers and Sisters’

Byron Center Erin Albanese
High school senior Kamryn Jansen helped sophomore Chris Lippenga to screen print a previously tie-dyed T-shirt. On the front they printed “LINKS” and on...

State Champ’s Flip Makes FOX Sports

Byron Center Erin Albanese
High School junior Walter Avesteffer hit a buzzer beater to end the half during the Special Olympics Celebrity Game and celebrated with a perfect...

Mark His Words: Haircut Has Locks of Impact

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Marshall Elementary School fourth-grader Mark Millard waved a fistful of his just-cut braids in the air, emotion showing in his eyes. Mark's classmates had just...

Two Students Earn National Scholastic Art Awards

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Two middle school students received National Scholastic Art Awards for work created in teacher Janine Campbell's art class. Eighth-grader Ethan Pipe won a National Silver award...

Jazz Orchestra Sole Michigan Competitor at Ellington Contest

Byron Center Erin Albanese
It’s about hard work, passion, good role models and all that jazz, high school musicians said in anticipation of competing this spring at top national...

The Price of Distracted Driving

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Student drivers had to react quickly while using a distracted-driving simulator. Cars pulled out in front of them. Children kicked balls into the road. Trucks...

Area Special Education Teams Shoot and Score!

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Kenowa Hills High School recently hosted for the second year a regional Special Olympics basketball tournament. Schools from Byron Center, Sparta, Forest Hills, Thornapple...

If You Build It, They Will Nest

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Purple martins like to live in “huge condominiums” and downy woodpeckers prefer their birdhouses to be 6 to 20 feet off the ground. Those are...
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