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CEDAR SPRINGS - Members of the Cedar Springs FFA chapter recently attended the Michigan FFA State Convention. Students attended as State FFA Band members, award recipients, Leadership Development Event Contestants and Delegates. Those delegates included Grace Marvin and Hunter Carlson. During the convention, members participated in meetings, activities, and opportunities to connect with other FFA members from across the state while representing Cedar Springs. Two students, Ca

CEDAR SPRINGS — A 33-year-old man has been charged in the death of a 3-year-old girl who was struck by a pickup truck last week at Northland Estates Mobile Home Park, the Kent County Sheriff's Office said. Daniel Richard Bryant was arraigned Monday in the 63rd District Court on two felony charges: reckless driving causing death and second-degree child abuse. The charges stem from the April 3 death of Estella Marie Johnson, 3, in the Cedar Springs mobile home park just north o

ALGOMA TOWNSHIP - The Kent County Road Commission will begin construction of a roundabout at the intersection of 10 Mile Road and Pine Island Drive today, with a second roundabout planned for 10 Mile Road and Myers Lake Avenue later this spring.

You start to recognize the feel of certain weekends without needing to look at a calendar, and this weekend, Easter weekend, is one of them. You hear it in passing conversations during the week, and if you're like me, you hear it in the drop-off/pickup line at school just before it breaks for spring. What strikes me every year is not that everyone celebrates the same way, because we all know they do not. But what stands out is that a large part of the community ends up pressi