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Early Learning Means Advantages for Children, Communities

Byron Center Charles Honey

The benefits of a quality early childhood education are many in terms of preparing students for later grades. According to Byron Center Early Childhood...

Byron Center Win Time a Big Hit

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center High School sophomores Andrew Rellinger, Jesse Ursiny, Trace Horvath and Vinh Tran spent a recent Wednesday morning sitting in the school hallway...

Hand2Hand Ministries Provide Students Food for Weekend

Byron Center Erin Albanese

The backpacks hang, waiting in student lockers in the morning, then go home filled with nourishing food for the weekend. They are vehicles for feeding...

Byron Center West Middle School gets Weather Lesson from Teri DeBoer

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center West Middle School students learned the answers to some interesting questions about weather phenomena from meteorologist Terri DeBoer recently. “Who knows why...

Local Students Win Prizes in Statewide Film Competition

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Eating healthy, anti-bullying, diversity, exercise and safety were a few of the topics high school students from across the state chose to share messages...

Students Get Lesson in Civil War Living

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Re-enactors from Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company F, based in Grand Rapids, recently brought history to life for Byron Center West Middle School students. The...

Byron Center Students Teach Tech Skills to Local Seniors

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center Public Schools junior Kamber Smith cheered on Jean Krol as she learned to work her GPS device to find a destination point....

Byron Center to Open Stand-Alone Early Childhood Center

Byron Center Erin Albanese

A renovated Byron Center facility will soon bustle with the activity of the district’s youngest learners. Byron Center’s first stand-alone Early Childhood Center opened to...

Byron Center Graduate Won’t Let A Stroke Slow Him Down

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center High School Class of 2013 senior Chris Schmitt wrote a quote for the senior yearbook. “You can’t alter the past, but you...

Byron Center students get the ‘“jitters” out at 8th grade orientation

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center West Middle School eighth-graders Kiersten Woudstra and Janelle Baar had some advice for incoming seventh graders while helping them check in at...

ArtPrize Artist Helps Students Get Messy, Creative

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Markers, crayons and paint covered by more markers, crayons and paint created a whimsical, fun, sometimes messy art project for Nickels Elementary School students. “We...

OK, We’ve Heard About the Big ArtPrize Winners. Now Let’s Meet Two of the Smaller Ones

Byron Center Charles Honey

Rhianna Peterson of Rockford and Emma McCloud of Byron Center were winners in ArtStart, a new online competition for artists younger than 18. They...

Byron Center Considering Next Steps to Address Growth

Byron Center Erin Albanese

As work crews finish the last projects funded through the $23 million bond issue approved by voters in 2011, administrators are already looking forward...

iPads Proving Their Value at Schools

Byron Center Erin Albanese

As Brown Elementary School kindergartner Christian Moomey got ready to record himself reading a story on an iPad, Principal Barb Johnson watched. “It takes...

Broadway Bound

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Tips from a Tony Award-nominated Broadway producer and a choreographer helped set the stage for Macy Krupiczewicz to pull deep from within herself in...

To Power Computers, Students Just Pedal

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Electricity costs Byron Center Public Schools 11 cents per watt, Zoey Christensen explained as Jordan Whitmore pedaled away on an energy-producing box. If Jordan...

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