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Music and LOVE are in the air….

Submitted 02-11-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Heeeeyyy-o! It is almost the weekend and things are bumping. Flowers and sweets are flying off the shelves everywhere and reservations are being made for nibbling and nookie. I fully embrace a consumerist holiday where the main premise is showing...

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A-Typical Teenage Couple

Submitted 02-10-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

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Interview with Allison Iraheta

Submitted 02-09-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Rapidian reporters Maurice Preston and Sophia Maslowski interviewed Allison Iraheta in September 2008 while she was on tour in Grand Rapids along with Adam Lambert, Scott MacIntyre, Michael Sarver, Matt Giraud and Anoop Desai.

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Everyone in The Pool: February Swim Challenge

Submitted 02-08-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Training for any sport takes a tremendous amount of dedication, persistence, time and energy. Making a commitment to train every single day notches that up and makes it more than training - it becomes a challenge.Each February for the last four...

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On the Record: Chris Knape

Submitted 02-08-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

A Q&A with a Grand Rapids Press business reporter WHAT DOES GRAND RAPIDS NEED?Grand Rapids has been really lucky and I’ve been lucky just to be here in the last seven years because I’ve seen so much of what I thought it needed come to pass.Right...

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Art Work, Football and enchiladas! Word on the Street February 5

Submitted 02-05-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Hey hey hey! Did you know the Super bowl is this weekend!? How did that happen!? I have to admit, I am not a sports fan, but once a year… on Superbowl… I resign myself to watching a single sporting event…. Of course I have NO idea what is going on...

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GreenRide helping to revive carpooling

Submitted 02-01-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

When gasoline was topping over $4 a gallon, many people jumped on the carpool wagon. It seemed like a great way to save money and help the environment. But as gas prices and motivation dwindled, many people are not carpooling, or attempting to...

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Deep Fried Bytes rounding out second year of podcasts

Submitted 01-29-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Growing up around Grand Rapids, Chris Woodruff would head to a local Mexican restaurant whenever he had a hankering for his deep-fried food of choice: ice cream. Now a technology consultant with RCM Technologies, Woodruff collaborates with...

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Crime in real time

Submitted 01-22-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

On Thursday morning the Grand Rapids Police Department invited representatives from local neighborhood watch groups to attend a training concerning a new method for mapping arrests and crime in Grand Rapids. Due to recent budget cuts the Grand...

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The great cathedrals of Grand Rapids

Submitted 01-11-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Grand Rapids is sometimes called the “City of Churches”. As you walk through the streets of Downtown Grand Rapids you can’t help notice the many beautiful cathedrals sprinkled around this great city. I have limited knowledge about these...

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