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In the comfort of her home and surrounded by her family, Arlene Alice Strutz, a truly remarkable mother, grandmother, great grandmother, wife, sister, teacher and friend passed from our arms

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Philanthropist shares $335,000 with The History Center for award-winning project

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Compressed tins of oatmeal were made for export beginning in 1908

Adrienne Raphel’s obsession with words and wordplay started early. “I’ve always been a word game person ever since I was little,” she said in a phone interview. And she was competitive, too. Frustrated that she couldn’t beat her family at Boogle, she took what her family called a “quantum leap” forward with the help of an online version of the game. “I went from having to be handicapped to having to give the rest of my family a handicap in like two because I blitzed my way throu...

Yaa Gyasi, a 2014 graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, arrived on the literary scene two years later with the publication of Homegoing, her deservedly acclaimed debut novel. Homegoing brought to life an extensive family tree, following the triumphs, tragedies and simply everyday humanness of generations of a single family with branches in Ghana and the United States - the latter taking root due to the horrors of the slave trade.

Grand Rapids Business Journal A local construction firm continues to add to its team. For its Holland office, EV Construction recently hired Mike O’Connor as a project manager for the facilities services division (FSD), Rick Boone as a firestopping technician and Erik Butzer as an assistant preconstruction manager. In his position as a project manager for the facilities services division, O’Connor will oversee estimating, preconstruction, scheduling and project execution for some of EV’s ...

Sat., December 12, 2020 Pulitizer Prize-winning author Jane Smileys young adult novel is about a different kind of family - animal friends Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley was inspired to write her book about a talking horse by her own horse, Paras. (Jane Smiley) Jane Smiley author / By Rob Cline, correspondent The idea for “Perestroika in Paris” first came to Jane Smiley just as she was getting to work on her massive and exceptional “Last 100 Years Trilogy” (“Some Luck...