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First Habit of Successful Authors: Work Hard

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

Pine Island Elementary teacher Laura Lamoreaux takes it in stride that her class is full of published authors. After all, she helped make it...

Want to Read Better? Let’s Go to Tape

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

Bella Greenlee can tell you a thing or two about ants. "I know that they carry their food; I see that a lot," said the...

Caring Comfort for Sick Students

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Jan Elderkin has been down this road before. A member of the Comstock Park Golden Panthers senior citizens group, Elderkin said she jumped at the...

Ambassador to Her Own Personal U.N.

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

This is the sixth time Dottie Unrath has hosted exchange students, providing each a warm home from which to experience a new land. The first...

‘Thanks for Protecting Us’

Comstock Park Charles Honey

Students learned about sacrifice and service when schools throughout Kent County honored servicemen and women with special ceremonies on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Students...

Student-made ‘Vehicles’ Propelled by Science

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

It wasn't rocket science, but it pretty much forms the basis of it. Students in Meghan Butler and Tim Olson's eighth-grade science classes recently put...

Up Close with In-Demand Careers

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Beginning a career in manufacturing after high school can pay off fast, said industry rep. Angie Huyghe. An apprentice in the toolroom can make a...

Lights, Camera, Leadership!

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

It's 30 minutes until the end of the day at Pine Island Elementary, and in a tiny, vacant office inside the library a group...

Park Ranger for a Summer, Teacher of Nature All Year

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

The kindergartners in Cheryl Hutchings' class at Stoney Creek Elementary have a few ideas about what park rangers do. "They clean the water," Wyatt said. "They...

Clothes Pins, Hot Glue and Elmo

Comstock Park Linda Odette

District staff across Kent ISD busied themselves in the weeks and days leading up to today, readying their buildings and classrooms for students. Lowell Martha Hayden worked...

Providing Food, Clothing for a ‘Very Giving Community’

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

The already humid atmosphere inside former classroom No. 8 in Greenridge Elementary School got even stuffier recently as families streamed into the cramped but...

Parking Lot Painted with ‘Positivity & Joy’

Comstock Park Charles Honey

On a gray-grit city parking lot through some of this summer’s hottest days, a dozen students painted a bright path of hope. Their zig-zag creation...

Need Tutors? Call the Cool Kids (a.k.a High Schoolers)

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

On Tuesday afternoons, high school junior Cristina Essex and Emily Sternburgh make their way to Mill Creek Middle School Media Center to help sixth-...

Sculpting Real Helping Hands

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A trio of Kent Career Tech Center 3D Animation students from Comstock Park and Sparta high schools recently had the opportunity to turn their...

Who Will Love the Worms? Kindergartners

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

One rainy spring afternoon, Stoney Park Elementary kindergartners discovered earthworms wiggling on the playground. When several students brought the squirmy creatures inside, teacher Cheryl...

Teacher Challenges Students to Think, Take Risks

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Mike Swift flipped off the lights in his eighth-grade language arts classroom. He momentarily went into the hall, cracked open the door and peered...

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