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Summer concerts return to Meijer Gardens FOX17 and last updated 2021-07-18 22:23:56-04 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The sounds of summer beat back into West Michigan on Sunday as Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park held its first Fifth Third Bank Summer Concert Series performance in more than a year. Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed alongside the Grand Rapids Symphony. According to organizers, roughly 1,300 tickets were sold. “Lots of smiles, very, very happy, lots of joy,” said Mary Tuuk Kuras, the symphony’s president and CEO. “It’s our hope that all of tha...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... MINNEAPOLIS — Video evidence shows the vice president of the Minneapolis City Council essentially being “held hostage” and coerced into signing an agreement over the weekend as a group of agitators blocked her vehicle. The paper she signed under coercion contained a list of outlandish demands, which includes dropping criminal charges against rioters. Andrea Jenkins represents Minneapolis’ 8th Ward and identifies as the first Black openly transgender person to be elected to office in the U.S., the politician said in a statement Tuesday. Th...

Summer concerts set for return to Meijer Gardens John Sinkevics Summer concerts at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park are back. After a silent summer of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Meijer Gardens has announced the resumption of outdoor live music starting in July, with three different series of shows: National touring acts and the Grand Rapids Symphony in the Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts series, local artists performing for Tuesday Evening Music Club, and “Sunday Strings” sessions held throughout the gardens. O.A.R., Kansas, The Verve Pipe, St. Paul & The Broken Bones and...

SOUTH BEND — Almost six months after first receiving a list of candidates to fill an open judicial position, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is finally allowed to appoint a replacement for recently retired Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller. Until Tuesday, Holcomb had been under a preliminary injunction, which prevented him from naming a replacement, as the result of a lawsuit filed by a member of the St. Joseph Superior Court Judicial Nominating Commission, the body tasked with nominating people to fill judicial vacancies. The lawsuit, brought by Joseph Grabill, who is a member of the ...