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Feature Story More than $4.2 million was distributed to 49 employers in Ottawa County, $2.2 million to 17 employers in Allegan County, and nearly $1 million to 11 employers in Muskegon County.  Economic Development

2023 Going PRO Talent Fund Awards top $7.4M to Lakeshore employers

Shandra MartinezSaturday, February 25, 2023
Feature Story Sara Crookston directs a toy photo shoot. Arts and Culture

How life is better in West Michigan for those designing our world

Laura BergellsMonday, February 6, 2023
Feature Story Sara Crookston directs a toy photo shoot. Arts and Culture

How life is better in West Michigan for those designing our world

Laura BergellsWednesday, February 1, 2023
Feature Story Sweet Temptations staff pose for a photo with Michigan state Sen. Roger Victory, R-Hudsonville. Entrepreneurship

Grand Haven ice cream shop serves up country's best scoops

Andrea GoodellFriday, January 13, 2023
Feature Story Ottawa County Sheriff's Dep. Ramon Soto-Lopez Community Development

Deputy awarded for inspiring trust with migrant workers

Andrea GoodellWednesday, January 11, 2023
Feature Story Robinson Landing in Grand Haven broke ground in 2022 and now has 16 income-restricted and 14 market-rate homes. Economic Development

New tools help Housing Next connect communities, developers

Andrea GoodellMonday, December 19, 2022
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. Kids and Education

Gentex, ODC partner to bring child care to employees

Andrea GoodellWednesday, November 30, 2022
Feature Story Anthony Clark Jr., a former GRCC student who received a scholarship, is now studying at GVSU. Kids and Education

New Michigan Achievement Scholarship could help make college more accessible

Shandra MartinezFriday, November 4, 2022
Feature Story Lisa Stefanovsky, Ottawa County Public Health community health supervisor Community Development

Retiring health department leader considered ‘one of the best’

Paul R. KopenkoskeyMonday, September 26, 2022
Feature Story The Lakeshore Nonprofit Alliance’s “Nonprofit Community Assessment” launched in 2019 to help measure the overall health of the local nonprofit community. The 2022 report was released at an event at Midtown Center in Holland earlier this month. Community Development

Nonprofit survey reveals burnout, DEI struggles and triumphs

Andrea GoodellMonday, September 26, 2022
Feature Story Anthony Lambers credits real estate for helping him turn his life around. Community Development

Anthony Lambers use his story to help others ‘Get up out the mud’

Shanika P. CarterSunday, August 21, 2022
Feature Story Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar performed with the Holland Symphony Orchestra in 2021 as part of the symphony's free community concert. It was the impetus behind a new drive to include diverse cultures in next year's community concert. Arts and Culture

HSO seeks diverse music groups for Music Unites Us concert

Andrea GoodellThursday, August 18, 2022
Feature Story Holland Mayor Nathan Bocks gets his face painted for a TikTok video. Arts and Culture

City interns paint Holland mayor’s face in viral TikTok video

Shandra MartinezTuesday, August 16, 2022
Feature Story Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation has awarded its fourth grant to GRCC's welding program. (GRCC/Andrew Schmidt) Kids and Education

Heavy metal band Metallica funds GRCC’s welding program for 4th year

Shandra MartinezThursday, August 4, 2022
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. Diversity

I Am Academy explores future careers at MillerKnoll

Andrea GoodellTuesday, June 7, 2022
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. Economic Development

Lakeshore Advantage makes case for West Michigan living to Gentex interns

Andrea GoodellTuesday, June 7, 2022
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. Kids and Education

Robotics students are next tech workforce

Andrea GoodellMonday, May 9, 2022
Feature Story Jocelyn Hines (right) poses with her parents (left) and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after Hines received the 2019 Youth Volunteer of the Year award. Entrepreneurship

MSU grad launches Muskegon Young Black Professionals to support community

Shanika P. CarterThursday, May 5, 2022
Feature Story Ferry and Voyager students are learning about botany and native plant species at The City Farmer. Kids and Education

Ferry-Voyager students partner with Grand Haven area businesses

Shandra MartinezThursday, May 5, 2022
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