Grand Rapidians encouraged to be conscious of fallen leaves, blocked storm drains
On Monday, the City of Grand Rapids sent out a...
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Posted: 26 weeks 5 days
Tagged: autumn, City of Grand Rapids, cultural heritage festival, GRPM, Kent County, leaves, public meetings, storm drains, stormwater, yard waste
Posted: 27 weeks 1 day
Tagged: community engagement, ghost stories, Grand Rapids, Halloween, Haunted Tours, Historic Sites, Local Events, Paranormal, Spooky Attractions, urban legends
To celebrate the month of October and Halloween, local arts and entertainment group Betka-Pope Productions (BPP) are hosting their annual GR Haunted Tours around downtown Grand...
Posted: 27 weeks 1 day
Tagged: #Community, #Family, #Halloween, #trunk-or-treat
October is Child Safety month and Family Futures is here to celebrate and educate! This year, Family Futures and Garfield Neighborhoods Association are co-hosting a first ever trunk or treat! This...
Posted: 27 weeks 2 days
Tagged: Affirmative Action, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, Racism, religion
The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, responds:
"Affirmative Action was...
Posted: 27 weeks 5 days
Tagged: art, Avenue for the Arts, ceramics, Jeff Ham, Pottery
Living every artist’s dream in a bright spacious studio set into a gorgeous farm landscape, Jeff Ham devotes all of his working hours to creating stunning ceramic art. He fashions custom...
Posted: 27 weeks 5 days
Tagged: City of Grand Rapids, economy, equity, GRPD, Halloween, holiday, investment, Kent County, master plan, new community transformation fund, parking, public meetings, strategic plan, the rapid, transit
New Community Transformation Fund receives $100,000 from the City of Grand Rapids
On Tuesday, the City of Grand Rapids...
Posted: 28 weeks 12 hours
Tagged: #film, #grandrapidsartmuseum, #wealthytheatre
The Wealthy Theatre and the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) teamed up this month to showcase local films and...
Posted: 28 weeks 14 hours
Tagged: Brownie Points, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, God, Mitzvot, religion, Works
Fred Stella, the Pracharak (Outreach Minister) for the West Michigan Hindu Temple, responds:
"The Hindu Dharma does not envision a deity who keeps a scorecard, dishing out...
Posted: 28 weeks 1 day
Tagged: #art
An exhibition of 30 ceramic works is on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) this fall in ...
Posted: 28 weeks 5 days
Tagged: Astronomy, City of Grand Rapids, civic engagement, dr. edwin bergin, election, fhsd, GRAAA, GRAM, GRPM, GRPS, housing, Kent County, lecture, making a habitable world, michigan economic development corporation, public meetings
Grand Rapids Public Museum and Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association to host special lecture in October
On Wednesday, the Grand...
Posted: 29 weeks 2 days
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (October 2, 2023) – Even though the Red Kettles aren’t out yet, it’s not too soon to get ready for the holiday season. The Salvation Army has...
Posted: 29 weeks 2 days
Tagged: Aspects of God, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, Holy Spirit, religion
Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds:
"Christians believe that the one true God exists eternally in three...
Posted: 29 weeks 5 days
Tagged: allison donahue, City of Grand Rapids, economic development, GRTV, jono klooster, Mayor Bliss, The Rapidian
On Monday, Oct. 2, Jono Klooster, Assistant Economic Development Director for the City's Economic Development Department,...
Posted: 29 weeks 5 days
Tagged: board of commissioners, fleet services, food system assessment, grand opening, GRPM, john lauter, Kent County, kent county food policy council, meeting, metropolis, mighty wurlitzer theater organ
Kent County Board of Commissioners holds meeting on Thursday
On Thursday, the Kent County Board of Commissioners...
Posted: 30 weeks 6 hours
Tagged: chronic pain, high blood pressure, kidney disease, National KIdney Foundation of Michigan, PATH, type 2 diabetes
No-cost in-person High Blood Pressure Control workshop in Cascade area still has openings; more workshops available online
If you are living with high blood...
Posted: 30 weeks 2 days
Tagged: Consent, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, Medical Data, religion
Is it ethical for medical systems...
Posted: 30 weeks 5 days
Tagged: anishinaabe culture day, award, butterworth landfill, City of Grand Rapids, cultural heritage festival, dr. delia fernandez-jones, gfoa, GRPM, GRPS, indigenous people's day, John Ball Zoo, national hispanic heritage month, native american education program, panel, rfi, rfq, Solar Power, steam day
Grand Rapids Public Museum announces several upcoming cultural events
On Tuesday, the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) announced that...
Posted: 30 weeks 6 days
Tagged: Broadway Grand Rapids, Musical Theater, musicals
Posted: 31 weeks 2 days
Is it ethical for an employer to install time-tracker software on an employee’s...
Posted: 31 weeks 2 days
Tagged: #donation, #Entrepreneurship, #volunteers
Grand Rapids, Mich. – The State Farm Insurance Foundation recently announced it is providing $10,000 in support for Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes to promote its financial...
Posted: 31 weeks 5 days
Tagged: alger heights, chair camp, City of Grand Rapids, GRPM, gun violence, Kent County, pitch and highlight night, SAFE task force, violence, violence reduction
SAFE Task Force, City of Grand Rapids to host Pitch and Highlight Night in October
On Tuesday, the City of Grand Rapids...
Posted: 31 weeks 6 days
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We'd like to congratulate our last Open Projector Night winner, Peaches Wilczak and their film 'Gnosis'. We were...
Posted: 32 weeks 10 hours
Tagged: drama, Live Theater, Musical Theater, musicals, Sondheim
At first, you don’t see him. You see others, though: the citizens of long-ago London. Horror-struck, they sing operatically of Sweeney Todd, a man they call “the demon barber of Fleet...
Posted: 32 weeks 2 days
Tagged: Cancel Culture, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, religion
The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, responds:
"For me this is a complicated...
City Connection: GR Fire Chief Brad Brown to Join WYCE Station Manager Phil Tower in the GRTV Studio
Posted: 32 weeks 5 days
Tagged: City Connection, dr. brad brown, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Fire Department, GRTV, mayor, phil tower, Rosalynn Bliss, The Rapidian, WYCE
On Monday, Sept. 11, Mayor Rosalynn Bliss and Dr. Brad Brown, Chief of the...
Posted: 32 weeks 5 days
Tagged: bugs, city commission meeting, City of Grand Rapids, commission night out, economic development department, Goei Center, GRPD, GRPM, homicide, insects, jeremiah gracia, jono klooster, kent county medical examiner, museum of new zealand te papa tongarewa, Science, Silent Observer, weta workshop
Grand Rapids Public Museum announces new upcoming exhibition
On Wednesday, the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) announced that it will...
Posted: 33 weeks 1 day
Shop owners of South Division are finding new purpose for those grand buildings of another era – too monumental to let go, too cool not to embrace with new (ad)venture. Gleaming and smooth,...
Posted: 33 weeks 5 days
Tagged: alpine township, board of commissioners, Calder Plaza, cibad hernandez, City of Grand Rapids, closure, damage, fiesta mexicana 54, Gretchen Whitmer, grpl. labor day, Kent County, mexican heritage association of west michigan, office of the governor, plainfield township, state of emergency, state of michigan, storm, tornado
State of Emergency for Kent County declared by Kent County Board of Commissioners, Office of the Governor
On the evening of August 24, parts of Michigan's lower peninsula experienced...
Posted: 34 weeks 2 days
Tagged: ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, ethnicity, Nationalism, religion, Tribalism
One of the things that frustrates me about religion, and keeps me from joining any particular one, is that so often it is tied to ethnicity, nationalism, tribalism, etc. How can any critically...
Posted: 34 weeks 5 days
Tagged: 28th street, board of commissioners, budget, cascade township, City of Grand Rapids, city of walker, finance, fiscal services, fy 2024, grant funding, healthy homes, hope network, HUD, Kent County, Lead, public transportation, rapid connect, route 33, the rapid
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants Kent County, City of Grand Rapids funding for lead programs
On Aug. 17, the ...