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

• Public's ideas sought as Grand Rapids school district copes with 'economic tsunami' (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 11:55:38 pm
  About 350 people spent five hours Saturday hearing about the "economic tsunami" that's rocking Grand Rapids Public Schools before sharing suggestions on how the district could withstand the storm.
• 9 GRPD officers to be laid off, rehired (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 03:32:27 am
  Nine of the more than 30 Grand Rapids police officers who would lose their jobs come the new year under the city budget proposal will be rehired immediately thanks to a federal grant, City Manager Greg Sundstrom said.
• Tax increase could pay for Grand Rapids public safety (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 10:33:24 am
   After the layoff of 69 police and fire personnel some Grand Rapids leaders are calling for a tax increase to pay for public safety.
• Grand Rapids Budget Cuts: 44 police officers, 25 firefighters (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 03:18:24 pm
  Faced with an estimated budget deficit of $27.43 million for the fiscal year starting next July 1, the city of Grand Rapids Tuesday morning announced numerous cuts.
• Medals and memories: reflections on the War in Vietnam (MLive.com)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 08:54:54 pm
  Charlotte Weick Marshall Moore displays his medals. When Marshall Moore went into the military, he was a fresh-faced young man of 18. The year was 1969 and he had no way of knowing the reality of the Vietnam War.
• Assistant Hope football coach is ‘dean’ of staff (The Holland Sentinel)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 08:40:51 am
  The last three coaches for the Hope College football team have shown a fair amount of longevity. Russ DeVette logged 15 years on the sidelines before turning the reins over to Ray Smith, who then put in 25 years as head coach before Dean Kreps was named as his replacement in 1995. All of them pale in comparison for length of service to assistant Doug Smith.
• Amway to be lead partner in Grand Rapids schools' new School of Business, Leadership and Entrepreneurship (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 08:10:38 pm
  Amway Corp. will be the lead business partner in Grand Rapids Public Schools' new School of Business, Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Ottawa Hills High School.
• Union High student injured in Rapid bus crash in Grand Rapids (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 02:40:38 pm
  A female Union High School student was taken to the hospital with minor injuries this morning after a Rapid bus and car collided at Watson Street SW and Lane Avenue about 7 a.m.
• Car and city bus collide, student hurt (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 12:23:48 pm
  A student aboard a city bus was injured after the vehicle collided with a car Friday morning.
• School boys suspected in Grand Rapids car theft (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 09:48:24 am
  As the West Michigan weather gets colder, many people go out and start their cars ahead of time to warm them up.
• Wayland teacher Gundersen in ArtPrize top 50 (MLive.com)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 04:39:54 pm
  Photo supplied Wayland Union High School art instructor Scott Gunderson creates art out of wine corks. Wayland Union High School art instructor Scott Gundersen placed in the top 50 out of 1,264 artists in the Grand Rapids ArtPrize competition.
• Precursor to ArtPrize brought 'Motu Viget' (tire swing) to Grand Rapids (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 03:10:38 pm
  It came about as a result of an event called Sculpture off the Pedestal.
• Community Story Tree focuses on lives of ordinary folks (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 12:55:39 pm
  Twenty-five "average people" from the Baxter Street and Grandville Avenue neighborhoods are telling their in the Community Story Tree project, which has its first public showing Wednesday.
• Students perform with Shakespeare troupe (MLive.com)
  posted on September 14, 2009 at 07:40:22 pm
  Wayland Union High School students will have a unique theatrical opportunity through a partnership with the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company.
• Dorr's Tylor Usher was a gift to friends, family (MLive.com)
  posted on September 14, 2009 at 06:55:06 pm
  Friends and family remember Tylor Usher as a fun loving young man with a gift for making people laugh and a gift for fixing and building things. Usher, 21, of Dorr, died from severe head injuries after falling down a staircase at The B.O.B. in the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 16.
• Macatawa Bank sponsors Dave Ramsey personal finance program in 56 West Michigan schools (The Grand Rapids Press)
  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...
• Schools making academic progress (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
  posted on September 3, 2009 at 05:03:24 pm
  Schools around Michigan make academic improvements in to meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind program.  
• More Michigan schools make Adequate Yearly Progress; Grand Rapids schools also celebrate improvement (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on September 3, 2009 at 03:25:38 pm
  More schools are meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) this year compared to previous years, according to data released today by the Michigan Department of Education. According to the state, 86 percent of Michigan schools met AYP -- a 6 percent...
• State confirms good news for GRPS (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
  posted on September 3, 2009 at 02:19:40 pm
  For the first time since the federal standards were created, some of the district's traditional high schools -- three of the four -- have met Adequate Yearly Progress.
• Crowd pleasers (MLive.com)
  posted on September 1, 2009 at 03:40:07 pm
  Aug. 17 was a great day for the Wayland Union High School Cheerleaders. During the Sixth Annual Sideline Cheer Jamboree at Fifth Third Ball Park in Grand Rapids, the cheerleaders were among competitors from Zeeland East, Grandville, Wyoming Park and Rockford high schools.
• Union High School's updated dropout rates rejected (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on August 30, 2009 at 01:02:40 am
  GRAND RAPIDS -- Union High students had the test scores to join three other city high schools in satisfying federal goals for the first time, but district staff missed No Child Left Behind deadlines for supplying graduation data....
• Man dies from fall down stairway (MLive.com)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 02:27:18 pm
  Tylor Alan Usher, 21, of Dorr, died last week from injuries sustained in a fall at The BOB in Grand Rapids. Usher, a 2006 Wayland Union High School graduate, was celebrating his 21st birthday with friends at The BOB at around 2 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, when he fell 30 feet from a stairway.
• Houseman Field renovation preserves historic feel of Grand Rapids Public Schools institution (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 12:17:31 am
  Upgrades include new turf, concession stands and viewing decks, but the symbolic Rock remains.
• Grand Rapids Education Association ratifies tentative pact with Grand Rapids Public Schools (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 10:55:30 pm
  Grand Rapids Press File PhotoGrand Rapids Public Schools Superintendent Bernard Taylor delivers his "State of Our Schools" address at Union High School earlier this year. GRAND RAPIDS -- The Grand Rapids Education Association has ratified a four-year tentative labor agreement...
• Grand Rapids teachers see pact as big letdown, with one pay bump and more health care costs (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 11:25:19 am
  GRAND RAPIDS -- About 400 Grand Rapids Education Association members attended the first informational meeting Tuesday about the union's tentative labor agreement. Most left Creston High School two hours later looking solemn. The contract, subject to ratification by the 1,658-member...
• 'Kids' of Cedar Springs' Class of 1942 welcome their 92-year-old teacher to reunion (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on August 1, 2009 at 01:10:20 pm
  Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids PressRay Rynberg, a 92-year-old former teacher and coach at Cedar Springs High School, left, shakes hands with former student Mel Brown, class of 1942, Friday during a reunion at Northern Trails Restaurant in Newaygo....
• Union High names top graduate of 2009 (MLive.com)
  posted on June 8, 2009 at 05:22:43 pm
  Grand Rapids' Union High School recently named its top graduates of 2009. Valedictorian Joseph McGarry, son of Patrick and Susan McGarry, graduates with a 4.0 GPA. He plans to attend Grand Valley State University this fall and hopes to become a mechanical engineer.
• Ada to Zeeland for June 3 (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on June 3, 2009 at 04:29:26 pm
  COMMUNITY CLOSEUP • Caledonia: Board of Education approves cuts to eliminate $500,000 budget deficit • Greenville: City Council approves ordinance covering garage sales...
• GRPS to hold budget meetings (WWMT 3 Kalamazoo)
  posted on May 26, 2009 at 06:28:22 pm
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Grand Rapids Public Schools will be holding several meetings to address its budget and high school reform. The first two meetings will be for school staff only, but the third is open to the community too.
• Air Force sergeant from Wayland dies in motorcycle accident in Netherlands (The Grand Rapids Press)
  posted on May 26, 2009 at 04:29:35 am
  WAYLAND - The family of Darin Michael Stark, 23 of Wayland, are remembering the Air Force staff sergeant as a motivated and loving person, after he died in a motorcycle crash in the Netherlands over the weekend....