WEST OLIVE Ottawa County Parks and Recreation officials have been working on projects along the Grand River Greenway for more than three decades, and the future Idema Explorers Trail is viewed as a key attraction for visitors and county residents.
The Greenway is a corridor of preserved areas of land that stretches from Grand Haven to Grand Rapids, with nature trails spreading from it across Ottawa County.
The Idema Explorers Trail, expected to be completed in 2022, is a 30-mile path that connects the Greenway. Planning and development along the Greenway has been going on in the county since 1989.
The county s Board of Commissioners will likely vote on a set of easements, or purchasing the right to use someone s property for a specific purpose, at its May 25 meeting.
KENTWOOD Fully vaccinated employees are allowed to return to work without masks, as long as their employers allow it, thanks to newly-updated workplace rules which went into effect Monday.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the new COVID-19 emergency rules from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration at the headquarters of office furniture company Steelcase near Grand Rapids on Monday, May 24.
The new rules are the lone byproduct of the governor s MI Vacc to Normal plan, which tied Michigan s reopening to vaccination coverage.
The plan has essentially been abandoned since updated guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allows for more lenient coronavirus restrictions, even as the state s vaccination rollout has slowed in recent weeks.
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GRAND RAPIDS Fully vaccinated workers can work without masks and without social distancing requirements and remote working is no longer required whenever possible, effective immediately, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday.
Whitmer announced streamlined and eased workplace rules at at the headquarters of office furniture manufacturer Steelcase in Grand Rapids.
“The reason we can take these steps is thanks to every Michigander who has stepped up and taken action to keep themselves, their families and their communities safe. Together we are eliminating this once-in-a-century virus, and now we are poised to jumpstart our economy and power it to new highs.”
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Cassidy Johnson sat on a stool at a high-top table at the Spin Clean Coin Laundry in Monroe, waiting as her clothes sloshed inside a high-capacity washing machine.
She was resolute about COVID-19 vaccines. I have not taken it, and I will not take it, said Johnson, 33, of Monroe. I already have an autoimmune disease and definitely will not be putting something else in my body that I don t feel like needs to be there.
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