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Beth Heinen Bell is associate editor, copy editor and reporter covering Northview, Kent City and Grandville. She is an award-winning journalist who got her professional start as the education reporter for the Grand Haven Tribune. A Calvin University graduate and proud former Chimes editor, she later returned to Calvin to help manage its national writing festival. Beth has also written for The Grand Rapids Press and several West Michigan businesses and nonprofits. She is fascinated by the nuances of language, loves to travel and has strong feelings about the Oxford comma.

Elementary attendance pledge signals commitment to learn

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
An attendance contract is helping students at Kent City Elementary make it to school on a regular basis this year. 

Scooch over; this principal wants to eat lunch with you

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Alan Bosker is the new principal of Cummings Elementary School. SNN gets to know him better in this edition of Meet Your Administrators.

Making middle school ‘the absolute best it can be’

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
While Curt Gerbers is a familiar face at Kent City Middle School, he’s taking on a new role as principal this year. SNN gets to know him better in this edition of Meet Your Administrators.

After year of planning, district ready to introduce ‘Oakestown culture’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Leaders in Grandville have spent the past year preparing the building now known as Oakestown Intermediate for its new purpose as a grade 5-6 school, both physically and philosophically.

Bird Club’s ‘whole vibe’ is about walking, talking & spotting species

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
At Grandville High School, teen birders come together to “stare at a little feathered creature in a tree,” and so much more.

Fourth-graders mark year’s end with horses

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Century Park Learning Center students took their reading and volunteer skills to a therapeutic horse center as they discovered new ways to learn outside the classroom. 

Career options soar with high school’s new aeronautics program

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Grandville High School launched a brand-new aeronautics program this year, a two-semester class that teaches  the basics of aviation and so much more. 

Art club mural reminds peers how to be ‘GREAT’

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
A wall at Kent City Elementary School will soon be adorned with a GREAT reminder of how to treat others and act responsibly, thanks to some student artists.

For pro swine handler, it’s all about family bonding

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
Macy first got a pig of her very own to care for when she was 3; now this eighth-grader is an expert at raising and showing pigs.

Suburban-rural swap illustrates similarities, differences between high schools

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
What happens when students from rural and urban schools switch places? Students from Kent City and Kelloggsville recently took part in a first-of-its-kind “student swap.”  

Young readers follow the recipe for perfect pound cake

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Each class at Grand View Elementary took on a unique challenge for National Reading Month: bake an award-winning pound cake by reading and following the same recipe. 

Phalanx formations teach an ancient lesson in human ingenuity

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
Classical ancient history can be hard for today’s seventh-graders to imagine, so their teacher taught them how to prepare for an authentic Greek “battle”... in the gym. 

A decade in, teaching is still all about relationships

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
The world of education has changed significantly in the past decade; no one knows that better than the educators who have seen it firsthand, like middle-school teacher Courtney Gritter. 

Bespoke shoe biz signals successes to come 

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
This creative sixth-grader has started his own shoe customization business and YouTube channel to help him achieve the goal of higher education.

Grandville athletic director earns state honor

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
The MIAAA has named Grandville’s Brian Parsons its Region IV Athletic Director of the Year for the 2023-24 school year.

Student’s winning artwork will benefit his whole school 

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
A fifth-grader’s artistic prowess has not only won him statewide accolades, but will also benefit his classmates at Kent City Elementary. 
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