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Students explore many ways of worship

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
The four-day Interfaith Service Day Camp brought together 21 West Michigan students representing several religious and non-religious backgrounds to explore religions, get to know one another, enjoy food and culture, and volunteer...

‘This opportunity is priceless’

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Students are getting a head start this summer by earning college credits. If they complete the courses with Cs or higher, they will automatically be accepted at Ferris and receive a $1,000 scholarship...

Students help refugee peers adjust to life, schools in the U.S.

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema
Students from a handful of area high schools are making an impact at two West Michigan organizations tasked with helping refugee students and their families succeed...

For Gerald R. Ford student essay winners, courage begins at home

Multi Districts Hannah Lentz
More than 900 students submitted writings on the theme of courage for the annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge...

And who are we wearing tonight? Duct tape, actually

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Baylee DeVos recruited her friend and Tech Center classmate junior Blake Johnson to take on a major art project: create a dress, tuxedo and accessories including shoes, a purse, corsage, boutonniere and hat completely out of duct tape...

Voters in Kent City, Godfrey-Lee approve funding requests

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
The Kent City and Godfrey-Lee school districts won funding requests on the Tuesday, May 8 ballot by comfortable margins...

Young adult students put best feet forward to help disease research

Multi Districts Charles Honey
Students in two Community Transition Campus classes recently raised $440 for disease research in the fourth annual Consumers Credit Union Purple Community 5K run/walk...

Haunting photo of ‘classy’ young woman takes top prize in Congressional competition

State of the Arts Charles Honey
Nick Ensing’s photo “Classy,” taken of his good friend Mariah Jennings, was named grand prize winner and will hang in the U.S. Capitol for a year

Wyoming, EGR and TK superintendents announce retirements

Multi Districts School News Network
Tom Reeder, superintendent of Wyoming Public Schools, and Sara Shubel, superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, announced their retirements last week, after Tom Enslen of Thornapple Kellogg announced his last month

Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence to end

Multi Districts School News Network
The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder

In Honor of Those Who Served

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Editor's note: Schools across Kent County observed Veterans Day with a variety of events. Here is a sampling. Byron Center Boys Scouts brought up the...

Fred Thorne: 47 Years of Service to Children

Multi Districts Ron Koehler
Fred Thorne gave all but 30 of his 77 years to the children of Sparta and Kent County as a quietly competent and humble...

Students Hope to Save Lives with Honored Video

Multi Districts Charles Honey
Brooke Buchanan and Molly Growney admit they sort of assumed their teacher was giving them busy work when he assigned them a project at...

‘When Trouble Came to Find Me, She Was There’

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Lexis Pearson was a self-described troublemaker when she was in seventh grade. Her poor choices led her to the office of social worker Brooke...

Superintendents Support Students In the Face of DACA Decision

Godfrey-Lee Charles Honey
As a mother and grandmother, Teresa Weatherall Neal knows well the value of family. And as superintendent of nearly 17,000 Grand Rapids Public Schools...

Teachers Stock Up on Class Supplies, with Help

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Wyoming's Parkview Elementary School teachers demonstrated their love for new school supplies at the Teacher Resource Store, where they left with cartloads of notebooks,...
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