Press Photo/Jon M. BrouwerDoug Start is closing the business his father started, Start’s Blind and Shade Shop, and moving operations to his home. Sometime in October, Doug Start will walk out of the business his father and grandfather started 57…
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Press Photo/Jon M. BrouwerDoug Start is closing the business his father started, Start’s Blind and Shade Shop, and moving operations to his home. Sometime in October, Doug Start will walk out of the business his father and grandfather started 57…
Press Photo/Katy BatdorffClearer view: Dr. Lisa Sladek gives GVSU freshman Jordon Weise a binocular cross-cylinder exam at Anderson Eye Care. Gary Anderson had an eye-opening experience while he was in college. The Grand Rapids optometrist found his study time as…
Geeks used to be glasses-wearing, pocket-protector carrying, pants-too-short kids everybody picked on. Not anymore, says author, columnist and radio host Marybeth Hicks. She thinks they are “Genuine, Enthusiastic, Empowered Kids” who avoid what culture says is “cool” to become kids…
Ferris State University will get a new 91,000-square-foot, $26.9 million optometry building. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed an appropriations bill that includes about $21 million for the Big Rapids university’s project. Grand Valley State University’s $70 million library and Grand Rapids…
Michigan residents on average will pay up to 25 percent more to heat their homes with natural gas this winter, depending on how cold it gets. (Press File Photo)
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Michael Allen Miller A juror who did not disclose that he was a convicted sex offender has given a fellow convicted sex offender a shot at another trial. On Thursday, the state Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether Michael…
Ricky Wright GRAND RAPIDS — Ricky Wright, the Comstock Park High School janitor who stole sports equipment from students and sold it on eBay, was sentenced Monday to two years probation. For two parents affected by his thefts, the sentence…
Press Photos/T.J. HamiltonAn example of a page from the hand-written Bible. CASCADE TOWNSHIP — Mandy Helton Jones had planned to spend the next couple months traveling to Asia and Australia with her recently wed husband, Jon. But when she spotted…
Here are a few of the top headlines from Monday: • Four bodies found inside burning home in Ottawa County’s Wright Township • Michigan members of Congress divided over financial bail out • School leaders call Friday’s fatal shooting a…
Press Photo/Emily ZoladzA crowd of Coopersville High School students and other family friends gather outside the home of Sharmaine, Tyler and Jeremy Zimmer to mourn after a fire killed the family earlier Monday. A fourth body was discovered later and…