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The new splash pad and playground will be located in a downtown riverfront park.

Big Rapids' bats stayed hot on Tuesday afternoon, putting up 31 runs in a dominant outing at Tri-County. The Cardinals strung together 13 runs in the top of the sixth inning to solidfy the win in game one. Big Rapids led game two 12-1 in the bottom part of the second inning until the game was postponed due to darkness. The game has been ruled incomplete and is slated to be finished later in the season. "Defense struggled tonight," Head coach J.T. Scarpelli said. "We need to see improvement fast. We were without our All Region CF Vennix who is day to day, which hurt us ...

Ferris State University Pharmacy students are supporting a free medical clinic on Big Rapids’ east side that helps residents who don’t have access to health insurance. Faculty and students serving through Ferris State’s Rowe Pharmacy Care Clinic make contributions of care and managed support in a collaborative arrangement with Hope House Free Medical Clinic. Hope House, 405 South Third Street in Big Rapids, provides limited medical care to uninsured adults. “College of Pharmacy faculty member Jeff Bates began the collaboration in 2013,” said Michelle Kelly, an ass...

For racket sports fans, Big Rapids’ own Hemlock Park will soon be a new place to play. Currently in the city’s recreational renovation projects are new tennis and pickleball courts going into the park as well as by Big Rapids Middle School. While progress has been slow, city manager Mark Gifford said they are hopeful for completion of the courts within the next few weeks. “We're going to finalize last year’s phase one project, which is surfacing the tennis courts, pickleball courts and then resurfacing the basketball court,” Gifford said. “That sho...

A list of nonprofit and community events taking place in Mecosta County in the next two weeks.