City of Kentwood

Pine Rest’s Leep Gallery’s newest exhibit features the work of a local photographer

The work of Grand Rapids artist Kathryn Armstrong is featured at the Leep Gallery at the Postman Center on the Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services main Grand Rapids campus. The exhibit is up through July 1.

By:Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services

Got an urge to purge? Wyoming hosts its first-ever community clean-up day

Earth Day is April 22 and Arbor Day is April 29 and sandwiched in-between is Wyoming’s first-ever Community Clean-Up Day on April 23. Kentwood follows up with its Pride Day Community Clean-Up on May 7.

By:Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Local Jaycees changes name to South Kent, expand area

Even though its charter said South Kent, the name Kentwood Jaycees just seemed to fit better when the group original formed in 1966.

By:Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Local spoken word poets featured at upcoming KDL Kentwood advance

April is Poetry Monty and Kent District Library marks it with its annual teen poetry contest that has a new element: a spoken word competition. The new competition is coordinated by local spoken word poet group The Diatribe.

By:Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Robots, rocks and more are all part of this year’s Spring Break activities

Comic book hero, robots, and the Gem & Mineral Show. If you are staycation for Spring Break, you’ll be happy to know there is plenty do in and around the cities of Wyoming and Kentwood.

By:Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Looking for work? Both Wyoming and Kentwood are hiring for the summer

Both the cities of Wyoming and Kentwood have several summer positions open from maintenance help to program leaders for Wyoming’s T.E.A.M. 21 and Kentwood’s REACH.

By:By Joanne Bailey-Boorsma