Jenison News

Great sacrifice: Florida resident Joan Doolin's hands clutch the bracelet engraved with the name of Rick Medaris, who died in Vietnam in 1969.

JENISON - Webberville boys track finished 10th out of 13 teams at the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association Division 4 team state meet May 23.

Jenison's school board was among those approving of next year's budget last night.

Budget troubles could cost dozens more teaching jobs in Grand Rapids. News reports say that Monday night the school board approved sending layoff notices to 141 teachers.

The Jenison Board of Education unanimously approved privatizing custodial services Monday, leaving the district's 17 custodians without jobs, but preventing program cuts and layoffs of nine teachers.

It can be amazing what you discover about yourself when you sit down and think about the future.

How do you save on groceries? Coupons, discount cards, on-sale items, generic and store brand? Well, there's another way to save that many in West Michigan swear by, Food Auctions.

Scott Labryn has been in the Ottawa County Jail since he groped a teenaged girl sitting in her car in Jenison.

Stone Road Eco Farm in Hesperia. Tom and Laura VandenBosch manage the "CSA farm" , where community members can buy a share of the farm, sharing the risks and benefits of food production.

After five years of being the girls basketball varsity assistant at Grand Rapids Christian, Charlette Muller has been named the head coach.

Four Muskegon-area classrooms earned first-place honors in a ROTHBURY music festival-sponsored contest that challenged students to develop programs that could make their schools or community more environmentally sustainable.

GH tennis places 4th at O-K Red Conference meet Mon, May 11, 2009 to del.icio.us Grand Haven placed fourth in Saturday's O-K Red Conference tennis meet, finishing with 42 points.

No. 10-ranked Jenison made Grand Haven's stay in the water polo districts a short one on Friday at Rockford High School.

Jenison's Board of Education will cut $1.3 million from expenditures and use $1 million in savings to cover a projected deficit in the 2009-2010 budget.

Pretty posies: Donna Folker, of Hudsonville, shops with her mom, Milly Bauer, of Jenison.

When Al VanDenBosch resigned as the girls basketball coach at Grand Rapids Christian amidst parent controversy, he said he might coach again.

Grand Haven coach Adam Briggs can't fault his water polo squad's defensive effort on Monday, but the Bucs didn't receive enough scoring punch in their 6-2 loss to East Grand Rapids in their regular season finale.

The walk from a chair to the podium to receive a diploma isn't far. But for graduating seniors, the walk represents a move from thinking about the past to the future.

In the recent past, Michigan State's baseball facility ranked last among its in-state Division-I peers -- Michigan, Central Michigan, Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan.

If the Plymouth-Canton Marching Band makes it to nationals in Indianapolis again next year, it'll be doing it under its third director in as many years.