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Central High School senior Jordan Berg organizes the new food and clothes pantry at the school, which was designed and built by volunteers known as the Central Fan Club.
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Community

Food, clothing pantry created at Central High School

Volunteers recently set up shelves and built a dressing room for the school to dedicate a space to a food and clothing pantry, which is filled with donations from the community.

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Spring Lake High School

'Dive In' to support student mission trip

An evening of family fun will help local students and their planned project this summer.

Apr 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM
A worker enjoys the comfort of an enclosed cab to clean the sleet off the sidewalks at Grand Pines Assisted Living Center, 1410 S. Ferry St., Sunday afternoon, April 15, 2018.
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Ottawa County

Grand Haven, Spring Lake among school closings for Monday

The number of schools keeping their doors closed on Monday includes Grand Haven, Spring Lake and Fruitport.

Apr 15, 2018 at 10:10 PM
CiCi Cutler creates a giraffe using Perler beads as Delaney Johnson creates Belle from “Beauty and the Beast.”
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Spring Lake District Library

Hands-on fun

Children make Perler bead projects as part of Spring Lake District Library S.T.E.A.M. activity.

Apr 14, 2018 at 1:00 PM
Some fourth-grade students found a bullet at Holmes Elementary School on Thursday. Nothing further was found during a search conducted by school staff and Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office.
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Holmes Elementary School

Students find handgun bullet at Holmes Elementary

School staff and the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office searched lockers, backpacks, desks and the building after some fourth-grade students found a bullet during the lunch period.

Apr 14, 2018 at 9:00 AM
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Community Columnist

HAMMOND: Memes, mindset and me

Recently I’ve tried to understand memes. I didn’t understand their purpose or what makes up a meme. So, I decide to ask an expert — my teenage daughter.

Apr 13, 2018 at 3:00 PM
Back row, first- and second-grade teacher Patti Kooi and Dr. Chad Zillich of Little Smiles. Middle row, left to right: Annalise Vink, Braden Goers, Dayton Zondlak, Peter May, Easton Ransford and Madeline Vink. Front row, left to right: Clara Fox, Kahren Carlson, Everly Klinter, Luke Philpot and Oliver Shoemaker.
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Classroom of the Week

Meet Mrs. Kooi’s first- and second-grade class

School: St. John’s Lutheran School

Apr 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM
Schools in Detroit are having a difficult time finding enough teachers to fill open jobs.
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Detroit finally has money to hire teachers – good luck finding them

Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Nikolai Vitti announced last month that every school will offer art and gym next year for the first time in years.

Apr 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM
Holland Christian Schools is being sued for alleged Title IX violation by the national nonprofit Stop Sexual Assault in Schools.
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Holland Christian being sued for Title IX violations

HOLLAND — A national nonprofit is suing Holland Christian Schools, claiming the private institution violated the civil rights of one of its former students who was the victim of sexual assault by another student.

Updated Apr 11, 2018 at 11:54 AM
Mary A. White Elementary School kindergartners run during a gym class activity.
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Education

Hundreds of schools across Michigan don't have gym teachers

An analysis from Chalkbeat, a Bridge Magazine reporting partner, compared data on physical education teachers to other state data. The records show that gym teachers are missing from suburban, rural, and urban districts as well as from charter schools.

Apr 11, 2018 at 11:00 AM
Preschoolers at St. Mary's Catholic School in Spring Lake learn as they play.
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Cost, capacity remain biggest preschool barriers

It’s a critical time for education in the state of Michigan.

Apr 7, 2018 at 6:00 PM
Annie Ratke’s fourth-grade class poses with Lauren Grevel (far right) of the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. The class is one of several whose projects are being funded by the foundation's Youth Advisory Council's Spark Tank competition.
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Grand Haven Area Community Foundation

Youth council funds several Spark Tank ideas

Some local students’ plans to make their schools better places will soon come to fruition.

Apr 3, 2018 at 3:00 PM
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos speaks during a news conference at the Marriot Heron Bay in Coral Springs, Florida, after meeting with students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on March 7, 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS)
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Education

'Partnership' agreements offered to 21 more school districts

LANSING — Michigan's Department of Education is extending its third wave of "partnership" agreements to schools flagged for low performance.

Apr 1, 2018 at 4:00 PM
A group of GHHS students distributed “Pay it Forward” cards in the community. Residents were asked to place a check in the box before returning it to the high school.
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Community

Connecting for a Cause set for May 12

A group of students in Grand Haven High School’s Pay It Forward class is arranging Connecting for a Cause, which is aimed at integrating the community with students with special needs and abilities.

Mar 31, 2018 at 1:00 PM
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Education

We read 12 reports on fixing Michigan schools – here are 4 things we learned

One is a 358-page tome that, when printed out, weighs more than 3 pounds. Another is a breezy 11 pages with colorful charts and graphics. There’s a report by a Michigan business group.

Mar 30, 2018 at 4:30 PM