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New Boardwalk is Playtime Empire

Caledonia Erin Albanese
The big wooden playground known as The Boardwalk stood on the Kettle Lake Elementary School playground for nearly three decades, a beloved place for...

Warm Bench, Warm Hearts

Caledonia Erin Albanese
If you need a buddy, have a seat. That's the message Junior Girl Scouts want their peers to hear. Two Caledonia troops recently added special...

FFA Members Make Hard Work Look Fairly Fun

Caledonia Linda Odette
It was 90 degrees at the Barry County Fair when Jordyn Skinner walked her dairy feeder cow, Russell, into the show ring for the...

First Day in the Life 2016

Caledonia Charles Honey
Editor’s note: This year, a quartet of School News Network reporters fanned out across Kent ISD and paired with a single person experiencing his...

Give a Bit of Labor, Get a Life Lesson

Caledonia Linda Odette
"Kids Helping Kids" was the theme for sixth graders at Duncan Lake Middle School this year, and that's just what happened at Family Promise...

Keep Calm and Carry On Conversations with Students, Bus Driver Says

Caledonia Erin Albanese
Paris Ridge Elementary School second-graders considered words to describe Dave Smith, or "Mr. Dave," the man who drives them to and from school. "Nice!" "He's...

History Lessons Take Flight — Bomber-style

Caledonia Linda Odette
Not many students finish the school year with a ride on a B-17 bomber, but that's exactly what sophomore AP history students did. The...

Third-graders Place Seventh at Odyssey World Finals

Caledonia Linda Odette
A district third-grade team placed seventh in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals. Caledonia’s team tackled a No-Cycle Recycle problem that required them to...

Raising a Record Sum for Cancer Research

Caledonia Erin Albanese
Each year, many personal stories are tied to Duncan Lake Middle School's annual Cancer Walk, which has raised more than $100,000 for cancer research...

Construction Continues on New High School, Other Facilities

Caledonia Linda Odette
Cement walls are going up, bulldozers are pushing tons of dirt and construction signs have been posted seemingly everywhere as progress continues on the...

Learning Math, Stretching Dollars, Doing Good

Caledonia Linda Odette
The comments from a group of second-graders during a recent trip to the grocery store weren’t what you might expect. Instead of “Can we get...

‘Kids Doing Things for Kids’

Caledonia Linda Odette
Using grant-funded equipment to take video of students reading books aloud is giving some youngsters at Paris Ridge Elementary a way to practice verbal...

Project’s About More Than Just a Dress

Caledonia Linda Odette
As they made dresses for girls in Africa, Caledonia schools and its community were a perfect example of "it takes a village." "I enjoy getting...

Marbles, Alligator, Help Test Laws of Motion

Caledonia Linda Odette
Marbles, cardboard toilet-paper tubes, duct tape, an alligator head and the Star Wars Death Star were not items Isaac Newton pictured being used to...

Student with Autism Hits Milestones Thanks to Teachers, Students

Caledonia Linda Odette
Connor Zondervan is pretty much like every other senior at Caledonia High School. He takes classes, is getting ready to graduate, and figuring out...

Students Receive Scholastic Art Awards

Caledonia School News Network
Fourteen Caledonia High School art students' photographs, ceramics work, etchings, drawings, collages and paintings earned honors at the Scholastic Art Awards competition. Twenty digital images,...
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