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District to Ask for Tax Renewals on Aug. 2

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Superintendent Dan Takens and the Board of Education will ask voters May 2, 2017 to consider a bond issue to fund expanded facility needs...

Skilled Trades Fair Offers New Opportunities

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Four days after Derek Mabie turned 18 he started working at Swoboda, a Kentwood-based automotive parts manufacturer. Since then, Mabie, a tool-room technician, has nearly...

Science Learning through Play, Discovery

Byron Center Erin Albanese

As Next Generation Science Standards are implemented in classrooms nationwide, students are beginning to think like scientists as young as kindergarten, paving the way...

‘Like Brothers and Sisters’

Byron Center Erin Albanese

High school senior Kamryn Jansen helped sophomore Chris Lippenga to screen print a previously tie-dyed T-shirt. On the front they printed “LINKS” and on...

State Champ’s Flip Makes FOX Sports

Byron Center Erin Albanese

High School junior Walter Avesteffer hit a buzzer beater to end the half during the Special Olympics Celebrity Game and celebrated with a perfect...

Mark His Words: Haircut Has Locks of Impact

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Marshall Elementary School fourth-grader Mark Millard waved a fistful of his just-cut braids in the air, emotion showing in his eyes. Mark's classmates had just...

Two Students Earn National Scholastic Art Awards

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Two middle school students received National Scholastic Art Awards for work created in teacher Janine Campbell's art class. Eighth-grader Ethan Pipe won a National Silver award...

Jazz Orchestra Sole Michigan Competitor at Ellington Contest

Byron Center Erin Albanese

It’s about hard work, passion, good role models and all that jazz, high school musicians said in anticipation of competing this spring at top national...

The Price of Distracted Driving

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Student drivers had to react quickly while using a distracted-driving simulator. Cars pulled out in front of them. Children kicked balls into the road. Trucks...

Area Special Education Teams Shoot and Score!

Byron Center School News Network

Kenowa Hills High School recently hosted for the second year a regional Special Olympics basketball tournament. Schools from Byron Center, Sparta, Forest Hills, Thornapple...

If You Build It, They Will Nest

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Purple martins like to live in “huge condominiums” and downy woodpeckers prefer their birdhouses to be 6 to 20 feet off the ground. Those are...

Senior Project Yields 1,080 Toys Bound for Haiti

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Teddy bears, fluffy puppies and Beanie Babies of all kinds will soon be in the hands of children preparing for surgery in Haiti, thanks...

Following the Music South

Byron Center Charles Honey

High school jazzers from Byron Center and Northview are heading to swing central. The Byron Center High School Jazz Orchestra and the Northview High...

First Pride Patrol Honoree ‘Like a Second Mom’

Byron Center Erin Albanese

There’s a boy under the table in paraprofessional Sandy Slentz’s reading group. He’s reading a book like the other students in class, but he’s...

Connecting Civil Rights Movement to Today’s Issues

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Nickels Intermediate School sixth-graders related Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech with friendship, freedom and speaking up for each other during...

App Class Breaks Boundaries of Paper, Motion, Art

Byron Center Erin Albanese

There's more than meets the eye in teacher Greg Reinstein's classroom. Known as "Stein's World," the class appears artsy and tech-y all at once,...

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