Caledonia News

'American Idol' star Matt Giraud smiles for cameras Friday afternoon at Celebration Cinemas North earlier this year.

A Kent County daycare has closed its doors, leaving employees without a paycheck and parents without a babysitter.

The village's Planning Commission approved rezoning and special land-use permits for Kent District Library's new Caledonia Township branch on Tuesday night.

Keeping up with his "American Idol" alumni Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, buzzing down to Nashville to record a song for an upcoming jazz/country duets album and rehearsing for shows this week have Kalamazoo's Matt Giraud nice and busy.

A Kent County daycare has closed its doors, leaving employees without a paycheck and parents without a babysitter.

A Lansing-based group created to track the state of Michigan's roads says that Grand Rapids has 200 miles of roads that rank in poor condition - placing the city with the second worst roads in the state.

A hearing to rezone property for the new library has been set for the Planning Commission meeting on Nov.

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An ACT preparation workshop will be offered through the Caledonia Resource Center.

The Caledonia Fire Department and public safety committee will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct.

Some wide-eyed youngster poses the question in every school group that walks down the banks of the Grand River at the Blue Bridge to get a good look at Nessie, said Richard App, one of the artists who built the lake monster for ArtPrize.

The number of first-time freshmen at Grand Valley State University declined by 163 students this fall, but the 3,775 freshmen still exceed the university's 3,700 target enrollment in the category.

Last year's Ada Autumn Arts Festival raised around $3,000 in donations that went to the Rebecca Vogelsang Memorial Scholarship, given to local college students majoring in the arts.

The city of Grand Rapids just lost $2.4 million dollars. Wyoming is $647,000 poorer, while Kentwood will lose $333,000. That's the impact from a vote taken Tuesday to cut revenue sharing to cities by 11.1%. The vote, in a conference committee of house and senate members, passed 4 - 2. Among those supporting it, Republican Mark Jansen, a State ...

September 27, 2009, 3:45PM Jon M. Brouwer The Grand Rapids Press Rob Bliss, center, talks to the throngs of people who came out to see and take part in his ArtPrize entry Sunday afternoon on Monroe Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.

Jeff Trytko, left, and his wife, Glenda, have been renting a home in Wyoming with their kids, Makenna, 4, and Dominick, 6, for four years and hope to buy a home before the $8,000 federal tax credit deadline expires.

The Ada Township Historical Society will host a lecture titled "The Rivers," an American Indian historical and contemporary perspective of the Grand and Thornapple rivers at 7 p.m. Oct.

MICHIGAN The budget crunch continues to intensify in Michigan as the October 1st deadline draws nearer.

Nancy Smith will give a lecture on covered bridges at 3 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Ada covered bridge followed by a slide presentation at the Ada Township assembly hall, 7330 Thornapple River Drive SE.

The school district's administration office is still short one person, and Superintendent Jerry Phillips hopes to fill the job soon.