Bridging the Talent Gap

Feature Story Boys and Girls Club staff celebrate with Isabel Shepard (center) after she was named Michigan Youth of the Year.

West Ottawa's Isabel Shepard is state Youth of the Year


Feature Story Macomb students visit a Paslin facility on Manufacturing Day.
Feature Story Reza Nematy's work with the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan qualified him and his immediate family to come to the United States as refugees.
Development News Delta College is offering training programs for businesses in the area.

Delta College grant to provide free training for businesses


Development News Delta College is offering training programs for businesses in the area.

Delta College grant to provide free training for businesses


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Teachers: Help Wanted!


Feature Story City employee at the water plant collects samples for testing.

City & County jobs are changing


Feature Story Gentex Discovery Preschool will be the first of its kind in the area with subsidized preschool for first and second shift parents on the Gentex manufacturing site in Zeeland.

Gentex, ODC partner to bring child care to employees


Feature Story Grand Rapids Community College opened its Lakeshore Campus a little more than a year ago. Now, about 1,000 students are enrolled in classes there.

GRCC partners with Haworth, others for flexible new campus


Feature Story Lizzie Dilg has served as the executive director since March of 2022.
Feature Story Lizzie Dilg has served as the executive director since March of 2022.
Feature Story Jessica Blewett and her husband, Joe, moved back to the area in 2014.
Feature Story Courtney Jerome, small business owner and Epicenter contributor

Finding home: The Jeromes' journey back to Mt. Pleasant


Feature Story Tara Weymon Leonard, MillerKnoll’s vice president of global contract and field marketing, talks to I Am Academy students at the company's Design Yard.

I Am Academy explores future careers at MillerKnoll


Feature Story Gentex talent acquisition specialist Chris Pollack speaks to a group of the company's interns gathered at Zeeland’s Lawrence Street Park last week.
Feature Story Team members from Zeeland High School's robotics team — known as Built on Brains, or B.O.B. — were one of two teams to compete at the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics World Championship in Houston last month.

Robotics students are next tech workforce


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Feature Story Sydney Ritsema was the recipient of the Herbert F. and Mabel L. Olney Memorial Scholarship. She graduated from Ferris State University with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a minor in forensic psychology.