Health, school officials opening pop-up COVID testing sites as cases surge
Kent Co. Health Dept. and local schools districts are opening five sites at four different locations as COVID cases over the weekend topped 10,000 Videos
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â With COVID cases surging and students traveling for spring break, local health and school officials are planning to open five testing sites beginning this Friday April 9.
âItâs our hope that everybody in the county who has traveled and who fear that they might come in contact with it will pre-register and will get to these drive-thru sites for a quick COVID test before they return to school,â said Kent ISD Superintendent Ron Koehler. âBut, this would include students families, students and staff.â
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Eighteen-year-old Taylor Kyle is building her legacy in Grand Rapids with her newly opened cereal bar.
I m just building something up for my future family, Kyle said Friday. I love it. every single moment I appreciate it.
Kyle comes from a family of entrepreneurs, so when she saw the opportunity to create something that Grand Rapids lacked her family encouraged her to try.
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Young constitutional scholars view current events, politics through historical lens
Two local teams qualify for national civics competition
Teacher Adam Horos and the 2020-21 East Grand Rapids High School We the People team (courtesy)
East Grand Rapids, Kentwood – While the country watched as Trump supporters staged an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, local teams of high school students looked at the situation as scholars of the U.S. Constitution.
They considered how hyperbole and propaganda had fueled the situation, along with partisan divides. They thought about constitutionally protected rights like freedom of expression and situations when national security takes precedence over certain forms of expression.