The Tri-Cities Family YMCA has been awarded $77,780 from the Michigan Department of Education to provide learning opportunities for children in summer programs.
MUSKEGON — With declining COVID-19 positivity rates in the region, Muskegon Community College announced its transition on Monday to Phase 5 of its six-phase Campus Plan to Reunite.
Holland resident Robyn Afrik and incumbent Carol Slagh, a Zeeland resident, were elected Monday to fill two seats on the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District Board of Education.
A partnership between the Outdoor Discovery Center (ODC) and the Ottawa Area Center (OAC) brought the natural world into classrooms to reinforce student learning.
Abby Teasley says she was “shell-shocked” when she and her family moved from Mexico to Grand Haven in 1999. She was 9.
As the final bell rang at White Pines Intermediate School on Wednesday afternoon, shouting and laughter could be heard throughout the school’s hallways.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Over the past three years, the new and improved Bucco has been a staple at Grand Haven High School’s athletic events and other activities.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Over the past three years, the new and improved Bucco has been a staple at Grand Haven High School’s athletic events and other activities.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Peach Plains Elementary School students had a hand in creating a new ice cream flavor that will help celebrate the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation’s 50th anniversary.
KALAMAZOO — Western Michigan University has received a $550 million donation, the largest single gift ever given to any public university in the nation, the school will announce at a 1 p.m. Tuesday news conference.
A program through the local Chamber of Commerce is helping local students solve real-world problems for area businesses.
Fruitport High School's Class of 2021 celebrated its graduation Friday night, June 5, at the school's football stadium.
MUSKEGON — It is graduation season, and one 2021 Lakeshore graduate is carrying on quite a unique family tradition. The Muskegon Catholic Central High School scholar is her family’s third-generation class valedictorian.
FRUITPORT — Jenna Springstead, the senior speaker for Friday night’s commencement, challenged her classmates at Fruitport High School to continue to choose kindness every day, no matter the circumstances.
Student journalists at Grand Haven High School’s The Bucs’ Blade took home 38 individual awards, including 14 first-place awards, in the 2021 Michigan Interscholastic Press Association awards.
SPRING LAKE — Fourth-graders wore red and white shirts and red caps as they walked behind their teachers around their school on Thursday. The sidewalk was covered with chalk, saying “Goodbye Jeffers” in multiple kids’ handwriting.
With the sun prying through the pinnacle of stadium seats at Lakeshore Middle School on Wednesday evening, Central High School and Grand Haven CyberSchool’s Class of 2021 was ignited with their own ray of sunshine – earning their high school diplomas.
As part of its 50th anniversary, the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation distributed books to local second-grade students Wednesday afternoon.
While Matthew and Jonathan Kelley were young, teachers at Peach Plains Elementary School had a hard time telling the identical twins apart.
GHHS honors Distinguished Academic Leaders
GRAND RAPIDS — His tassel draped correctly from his cap and his graduation robe carefully arranged so just the top of his maroon and gold tie showed, Michael Duthler extended his fist toward Bill Corner for one last fist bump. "You look like a college graduate," Corner said.
NORTON SHORES — Benjamin Sandoval, Class of 2021 valedictorian, encouraged his Western Michigan Christian classmates to continue to persevere throughout the next chapter of their lives.
Several local students have graduated from their respective colleges and universities. They include:
The great outdoors have always piqued interest in Grand Haven High School junior Owen Worthington.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Even as squalls of rain loomed and occasionally barraged against Grand Haven High School’s Fieldhouse on Thursday evening, inside, the Class of 2021 was with swelling energy that could weather any storm that they crossed paths with.
Grand Haven High School's Class of 2021 celebrated its graduation during a ceremony Thursday in the school's fieldhouse. More than 400 students received their diplomas, and 107 of those were named Distinguished Academic Leaders, graduating with a GPA of 3.9 or above.
Buccaneer seniors paraded through the streets of Grand Haven on Wednesday night, the day before the school’s graduation ceremony.
Grand Haven High School seniors paraded through town Wednesday night, the day before their graduation. The senior parade was debuted last year as a chance for seniors to reconnect after having missed the final few months of their senior year due to COVID-19. The event was a hit, and the trad…
Grand Rapids Community College is launching a free summer program for graduating high school seniors to help boost math and reading skills before they attend GRCC or another college.
Every day, Christa Johnson’s Spring Lake Intermediate School classroom would stop their lecture to gaze out the window, eager to witness the newest style of a frequent passerby.
Madison H. Rogers and Thomas A. MacDonald were named the April Rotary Students of the Month at Grand Haven High School.
Students in the Emergency Medical Services program at Careerline Tech Center received hands-on training in vehicle extrication thanks to partnerships with the Olive Township Fire Department and Holland Towing last week.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Students, along with families and friends of loved ones who were lost, walked eight laps around the Grand Haven High School track Wednesday morning – one lap for each of their classmates who died by suicide over the past 10 years.
Spring Lake Public Schools is offering a new program this summer that aims to shrink the time and gaps in learning lost due to COVID-19.
LANSING — Michigan legislators gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would exempt high school graduation ceremonies from a state order that restricts crowd sizes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Michigan education leaders and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday released the MI Blueprint for Comprehensive Student Recovery — guidance to help the state’s school districts create recovery plans for future school years.
WEST OLIVE — The Ottawa Area Center (OAC), a public school serving the unique educational needs of students with cognitive impairments supported by the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District (OAISD), recently hosted the 31st annual Festival of the Arts.
Spring Lake High School's Class of 2021 celebrated its graduation on Sunday, May 16, at Grabinski Field.
SPRING LAKE — May Fuller, the Class of 2021 president, urged her Spring Lake High School classmates to take everything that life throws at you.
WEST OLIVE — The Careerline Tech Center recognized 34 students for their combined post-secondary scholarship earnings of more than $373,000 at the center’s Scholarship Awards Ceremony on April 30.
Last week, West Michigan health officials relaxed quarantine rules for students as they enter the final weeks of the school year.
GH’s Kar participates in Alabama’s Cooperative Education Program
LANSING — Three of Michigan's 15 public universities have announced COVID-19 vaccine mandates, while others are evaluating plans or implementing other strategies to increase immunizations among students.
The Grand Haven Science Olympiad program is accustomed to winning. So, it felt odd to coach Mike Reed and his team when the high school squad finished seventh out of 56 schools, along with Lakeshore Middle School taking third and White Pines Intermediate finishing 19th out of 51 middle schoo…
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — The bands of Grand Haven High School have been waiting for more than a year for the chance to perform with an audience.
ATLANTA — Online shopping got a boost from COVID-19, and that trend of buying without seeing in person has spilled over into far bigger decisions now being made by high school seniors.
Voters in the Fruitport school district approved a new bond proposal and voters in the Grand Haven school district renewed its operating millage on second homes and commercial properties on Tuesday.
MUSKEGON — Is it true that a painting conservator is also a detective?
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Some Ferry Elementary School students recently collaborated with Health Pointe to help encourage mask-wearing for patients and visitors at the Grand Haven Township medical facility.
“Grand Haven Rocks” – a group that hides smooth, rounded and eye-catching stones aimed at brightening the day of a lucky hunter who discovers the decorated rocks – was created in April 2017.
The high school graduating class of 2021 has endured more than a year of uncertainty, in which traditional activities and events have been severely altered or canceled altogether.
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