Lowell News

The Flat River Gallery in Lowell will host an artists' reception for a just-opened show which includes watercolors by guest artist, and former Grand Rapids Press art reporter, Sylvia Krissoff on Saturday, June 22, from 2-5 p.m. The show opened June 1 and will run through July 13. Krissoff, who at age 94 still paints and offers occasional lectures ... (more)

They were married in St. Johns, MI. in 1963. They have lived their entire married life on the family centennial farm in Clinton County's Olive Township, rural Laingsburg.

Kent County sheriff's investigators today said that dental records confirmed that a body found Saturday in the Grand River near Ada is that of Robert Drew Nylen, who went missing in late May. Nylen's body was found the afternoon of Saturday, June 8, near the Ada boat launch near Fulton Street SE and Ada Drive.

A fiery two vehicle crash involving a semi truck forced the closure of a busy roadway near Lowell this morning.

A semi-truck and car apparently collided on a Kent County road, resulting in both vehicles damaged, off the road and the truck on fire.

A body recovered from the Grand River near the Ada boat launch Saturday afternoon is believed to be the remains of missing man Robert Nylen, according to the Kent County Sheriff's Department.

As many as 16 volunteers were out searching wooded and swampy areas near the Grand River today for a Lowell area man missing since Saturday.

Robert Nylen, 62, was last seen Saturday night; first, leaving Pauly's, a party and liquor shop along M-21 in Lowell Township, then, walking barefoot into a wooded and swampy area near Buttrick Ave.

In a little over a week, parts of West Michigan have received plenty of rain, and that is causing some of the rivers to rise.

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich- The Kent County Sheriff's Department is trying to locate Robert Nylen.

Danielle Knight, 15, is pictured inside her home in Lowell Friday, May 24, 2013.