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Gift card program designed to help minority business in Grand Rapids
Local restaurants get some help from Consumers Energy with a gift card program that lets customers double their spending.
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For Arbor Day, Tree Commission celebrates resilience with a special tree planting
A Dawn Redwood represents resilience, and considering the year, an appropriate choice for this year’s Arbor Day celebration.
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28th Street Metro Cruise Dust Off is a go for May 1
This week’s event starts the annual pilgrimage of classic cars to 28th Street in Wyoming and Kentwood as Metro Cruise — and WKTV’s DreamWheels coverage — returns in August.
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Earth Day event brings more than 80 people to help clean-up Wyoming parks
Groups helped to clean up Pinery Park, Lamar Park, and the Wyoming Senior Center.
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Community involvement needed to help spur Division Avenue growth
It truly needs to be a united effort of The Rapids, municipalites, business leaders, and citizens to develop the transportation and economic improvements for Division Avenue.
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For most college students, the biggest COVID hurdle was the ‘college experience’ interrupted
With classes online and dorms closed, area college students said they quickly learned how create a new type of college experience.
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New certification helps pay way for additional development, investment in Wyoming
The City of Wyoming recently announced it has received a redevelopment ready community certification from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation
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After a year off due to COVID, Wyoming’s Spring Carnival returns to Lamar Park
The carnival, which raises money for youth scholarships and youth and family programing, will run through May 1.
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Wyoming-Kentwood chamber urges local restaurants — and breweries — to take advantage of Restaurant Revitalization Fund
Small businesses underserved by previous stimulus efforts can soon apply for help from a $28.6 billion fund administrated by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Snapshots: Things to do this weekend
Wyoming’s Spring Carnival runs through May 1. Also last call on two Grand Rapids Public Museum exhibits which are set to close at the end of April. Plus you’ll never guess where the tulip originates from.
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Michigan’s redistricting commission setting meetings, looking for input
At is April 19 Wyoming City Council meeting, a representative of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission discusses the commissions steps to gathering input before redrawing state election districts.
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Kent County Treasurer’s office launches new online payment service for delinquent property taxes
The service is available though a Kent County website and a free mobile app — myKentCounty — and will allow individuals to pay their delinquent taxes online.
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Area residents get first look at proposed Division Avenue improvements
The Thursday meetings are designed to provide residents with an update on the final phase of the Division United project.
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Kelloggsville Public Schools seeks non-residential property millage extension on May 4 ballot
With a recent history of voter support, the district will be seeking an extension of its existing non-residential property millage and well as an additional temporary 0.5 mill increase.
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Kent County Treasurer, ex-senator MacGregor talks continuing Lansing connections, door-to-door work in county on latest WKTV Journal In Focus
After four months at his new position, MacGregor details his job transition, the sometimes little-known duties of the county treasurer, and where he now sees his public service priorities lay.
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