Browse past news stories for East Grand Rapids High School in Grand Rapids, MI.

• Grand Valley remembers Sally Seidman (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 02:18:35 am
  Allendale - Sally Seidman, wife of the late L. William Seidman, died November 22 at their family home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was 85.
• Sally Seidman, Longtime GVSU Supporter, Dies at 85 (FOX 17 Grand Rapids)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:40:45 am
  Grand Valley State University says Sally supported efforts by her husband Bill Seidman, who served as founding chair of Grand Valley's Board of Trustees and as an FDIC chairman. Just six months after the passing of her husband, L. William Seidman, Sally Seidman died Sunday at their family home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was 85. Tonight, she's being remembered as instrumental in making Grand ...
• Sarah Berry 'Sally' Seidman remember as 'consummate mom,' instrumental in bringing 'La Grande Vitesse' to Grand Rapids (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 11:55:48 pm
  Sarah Berry "Sally" Seidman was a leader in West Michigan society and art circles until the mid-1970s, when she and her husband, L. William "Bill" Seidman, moved to Washington, D.C., to join President Ford's administration.
• East Grand Rapids officer involved in Taser incident with Matthew Bolick: 'We're certainly sorry it turned out the way ... (The Muskegon Chronicle)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 06:38:33 am
  Courtesy Photos East Grand Rapids Department of Public Safety Sgt. Brian Davis, left, and Officer Gary Parker.
• Thousands turnout in Grand Rapids for midnight screening of 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 02:55:38 am
  About 2,500 people bought advance tickets for "New Moon" at Celebration North.
• East Grand Rapids police officers identified in Matthew Bolick taser incident (The Muskegon Chronicle)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 11:55:39 pm
  Officers Brian Davis, left, and Gary Parker have "served their community well" for many years, says East Grand Rapids Police Chief Mark Herald.
• East Grand Rapids man who died after being Tasered by police is not a 'monster,' brother says (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 07:10:38 pm
  Matthew Bolick, an East Grand Rapids High School graduate, grew up in the area.• Autopsy shows no internal trauma• Father called police to home
• Neighbors say they knew little of man who died after being tasered by East Grand Rapids Police (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 03:25:57 pm
  Matthew Bolick, 30, an East Grand Rapids High School graduate, died in Monday's 9:30 p.m. incident in which the man allegedly assaulted an officer and reportedly was zapped several times with Tasers as police tried to arrest him.
• Profile: Theater wizard Keith Oberfeld (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 8, 2009 at 09:40:38 am
  Keith Oberfeld, technical director for Grand Rapids Ballet Company and Opera Grand Rapids, is a lighting wizard who has been setting stages aglow in Grand Rapids for 35 years.
• Gay rights advocates closely watching Kalamazoo vote (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 1, 2009 at 11:25:38 am
  Andrew Grayson, of Grand Rapids, and other members of One Kalamazoo stand at the corner of Pitcher and Michigan in downtown Kalamazoo on Thursday evening holding signs trying to gain support from people to vote in support of anti-discrimination ordinance.
• East Grand Rapids schools trying to prevent spread of flu (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 07:40:39 pm
  Administrators are keeping almost hourly tabs on how many East Grand Rapids High School students are affected by seasonal and H1N1 flu, said Superintendent Sara Shubel.
• EGR senior lands small part in big screen film (MLive.com)
  posted on October 26, 2009 at 08:09:52 pm
  Advance Newspapers The excitement of making it in the world of the big screen is front and center for one East Grand Rapids High School senior.
• Ada to Zeeland briefs: Official named president of housing association (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 05:11:19 am
  A roundup of local news briefs from Ada to Zeeland.
• EGR grads reconnect in race for cancer research (MLive.com)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 03:39:53 pm
  Advance Newspapers EGR graduates Audrey (Vesota) Flack and Steven Snyder got together while running for a cause in the Twin Cities. Many local high school graduates have accomplished big things all around the world, but it seems unusual when two from the same class reconnect over a cause.
• Foundation seeks nominations (MLive.com)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 03:10:03 pm
  The East Grand Rapids Schools Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2010 Distinguished Alumni and Community Service award. Two separate awards will be given at the semi-annual gala dinner.
• Voss commits to CMU men's basketball (The Morning Sun)
  posted on October 18, 2009 at 09:55:30 am
  Colin Voss a 6-foot-7, 225-pound forward from East Grand Rapids High School has verbally committed to the Central Michigan University men's basketball team for the 2010-11 season.
• Johnnie Tuitel, the Handicapitalist, at Northeast State Oct. 14 (Kingsport Times-News)
  posted on October 7, 2009 at 02:56:29 pm
  Johnnie Tuitel was born with cerebral palsy, and has used a wheelchair his entire life. But his disability has never kept him down.
• Grady happy to be back at UM (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on September 25, 2009 at 11:06:40 am
  By RYAN AUTULLO BLADE SPORTS WRITER ANN ARBOR - Screwing tops on bottles. For an undesirable wage. Working undesirable hours. Is this really what Kelvin Grady forfeited a prestigious, cost-free education to do? Weeks earlier Grady was in Kansas City, participating in the NCAA basketball tournament with his University of Michigan teammates. Now he was a third-shift line worker at Amway in Ada ...
• EGR's Hearts of Gold event -- Oct. 2 (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 08:52:53 pm
  East Grand Rapids High School will try to raise $50,000 for the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Foundation by hosting a Hearts of Gold event, scheduled for Oct. 2.
• Teachers honored by EGR Educational Foundation (MLive.com)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 06:10:28 pm
  The East Grand Rapids Schools Foundation has named its 2009 Excellence in Teaching Awards to Eric Schweinzger and Becky Schmidt. Kevin Vance was honored with the Vi-Chem Corp. Award.
• President impersonators help East Grand Rapids students celebrate Constitution Day (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 08:40:38 pm
  Lori Niedenfuer Cool | The Grand Rapids PressGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln appear at East Grand Rapids High School in a production of Rushmore Live for a Constitution Day Celebration hosted by GVSU's Hauenstein Center for...
• Schools to celebrate Constitution Day (The Holland Sentinel)
  posted on September 15, 2009 at 10:14:02 pm
  Area schools are prepped and ready to celebrate Constitution Day, on Thursday, Sept. 17.
• Ada to Zeeland briefs: Coopersville & Marne Railway schedules pumpkin, fall tours (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 15, 2009 at 04:40:38 am
  COOPERSVILLE -- While the Coopersville & Marne renovates a 1929 rail car, it is advertising its already historic rail cars that will be used in the Pumpkin Train and Fall Color Excursions. The Pumpkin Trail runs Saturdays and Sundays through...
• East Grand Rapids graduate is journalist first, gay advocate second as White House reporter (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 14, 2009 at 08:40:38 am
  In the past few months, 1988 East Grand Rapids High School graduate Kerry Eleveld, 39, has made a name for herself in Capitol Hill circles as a respected reporter on the politics of lesbian and gay rights....
• Polpourri: Ex-NFL player Jay Riemersma poised to enter race for Pete Hoekstra's seat (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 13, 2009 at 01:40:38 am
  Come Monday, it's game on for Republicans hoping to replace Pete Hoekstra in Congress. Jay Riemersma, a football standout at Zeeland High School who played at the University of Michigan and in the NFL, will make his candidacy official with...
• Macatawa Bank sponsors Dave Ramsey personal finance program in 56 West Michigan schools (The Muskegon Chronicle)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 02:25:40 pm
  Macatawa Bank Corp. is bringing Press columnist and nationally known personal finance guru Dave Ramsey's programs to area classrooms. The Holland-based bank this morning said it would sponsor a program to offer Ramsey's Foundations in Personal Finance program for free...
• First day of school brings laptops for some East Grand Rapids classrooms (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 8, 2009 at 07:55:38 pm
  Octavian Cantilli | The Grand Rapids PressFrom left, Grace Brooks, Charlie Pietryga and Olivia Masek, of Wealthy Elementary, play with new laptops in Winona Tinholt's fourth-grade class in East Grand Rapids on Tuesday. Gallery: More back to school photos EAST...
• Rich DeVos, Don Lubbers, Sue Herera among those to speak at memorial service for GVSU founder L. William Seidman (The Muskegon Chronicle)
  posted on September 4, 2009 at 09:55:38 pm
  The 3 p.m. memorial service is scheduled Sept. 11 at GVSU's Allendale Campus.
• EGR backyard camp produces would-be performing artists (MLive.com)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 06:42:43 pm
  Wagner held a backyard camp for local youngsters to increase interest in performing arts. The venture, entitled "Wild Rumpus Theatre and Visual Arts Day Camp," helped young artists create their own version of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are."
• Ada to Zeeland briefs: Belding picked to fill open city council seat in Belding (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on August 21, 2009 at 05:10:20 am
  BELDING -- The City Council has chosen Andrea Belding to fill a vacant seat until the Nov. 3 general election. Belding was one of four candidates vying for the post, left vacant when Mayor Pro-Tem Roger Wills stepped in to...