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SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Jon Morosi, a national baseball reporter who got his start writing about the West Michigan Whitecaps as an intern, will be the featured guest at the team charity's winter banquet in Grand Rapids this January. The Whitecaps Community Foundation put tickets…
From the HERE City National DeskST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Milwaukee Brewers are champions for the first time. Milwaukee closed out the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-1 win Wednesday night at Tropicana Field, wrapping up the World Series in five games and bringing a title to a franchise that…
Education
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Public Schools has its choice for the next superintendent: Allison Tingwall, an administrator with Chicago Public Schools who grew up in Michigan. Board members made the call Wednesday night after a full day in which both finalists toured schools, met with community groups and…
Education
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Valley State University held a groundbreaking Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the Blue Dot Lab, a tech center in downtown Grand Rapids with a $166 million price tag that will remake the Eberhard Center, the school's first downtown building. Crews are already working inside the 10-story…
From the HERE City National Desk
WASHINGTON — A nonprofit that represents student borrowers went to federal court Wednesday, accusing the U.S. Department of Education of refusing to honor an expanded loan-forgiveness window for people whose colleges shut their doors before they could finish. The group, Student Defense, filed the case on behalf of a former…
Business
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A stalled plan to put apartments on an empty school campus in Grand Rapids' Creston neighborhood cleared a key city board Wednesday under a new developer. The Grand Rapids Brownfield Redevelopment Authority recommended approval of an amended brownfield plan for Flats at Huff Park, a project…
Politics
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Concerts at the Acrisure Amphitheater on the Grand River can keep going until 11 p.m. after the Grand Rapids City Commission voted without dissent Tuesday night to rewrite the city noise ordinance in the venue's favor. The change spells out that the downtown amphitheater is covered…
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