Nearly 70 years later, defunct Muskegon school s state title recaptured by players
Muskegon St. Joseph s H.S. closed for good in 1953, which also was the year its boys basketball team won the state championship. Three former players reflect. Author: Brent Ashcroft Updated: 6:19 PM EDT July 29, 2021
MUSKEGON, Mich. This is kind of the ultimate Go-Out-in-a-Blaze-of-Glory, story.
Winning a state championship in your high school s final year of existence, assuring that nobody and no other team can erase that accomplishment.
Three of the remaining five members of Muskegon St. Joseph s 1953 boys basketball title team gathered to reminisce about the determination, and the one free throw, that pushed the Saints to upset the state s best team.
Schools still offering free meals during summer months
GRPS, Holland, Kalamazoo, Muskegon participating
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Hunger doesn t take a break even if students take a break from school.
That s why local area school districts are still offering free breakfast, lunch and snacks to students during the summer months.
Forty locations, including MLK Park, Roosevelt Park and Grand Rapids Public School locations, will be serving the food Monday through Thursday with some pick-up days offered on Fridays as well. We re back to actually feeding our students hot breakfast and hot lunch in a much more traditional setting that they haven t seen in over a year and a half. So we re very excited, Grand Rapids Public Schools Food and Nutrition Services supervisor Jennifer Laninga said.
Muskegon School District pauses in-person learning for grades 6-12
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MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon Public Schools is pausing in-person learning for some students amid a recent increase of COVID-19 cases in the district.
Students in grades 6-12 switched to online-only classes on Friday, April 16, and will continue learning remotely through Friday, April 23, according to an April 15 letter to families from Muskegon Superintendent Matthew Cortez.
“I am writing in response to the current COVID-19 rates in our Middle School and High School levels,” Cortez wrote. “Ninety percent (90%) of the cases we are seeing are at the 6-12 grade level.”
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