Superintendent/Principal Jamie Walle holds up just one of the many food items in a Kids Food Basket Sack Supper. Jamie Walle does not need a report or survey to know when her students at Glenn Public ...

Tim Mroz of The Right Place welcomes the standing room only crowd at the 5th Annual Developer Day. At 37, the average first-time homebuyer in America is nearly a decade older than the typical buyer ...

Dan VanderMeer and Asher Kuhn have turned tech-flipping into a business. You’ve probably tried to dispose of some old technology before. Maybe it was that phone that stopped working, or perhaps an old ...

This Voice of Youth essay was originally presented on May 13 during the “Our Composite Community” presentation at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Students from East Kentwood High School explored how ...

One of the unexpected gifts of revisiting two decades of Rapid Growth stories is discovering how often the past has something to teach us about our present. Disability advocates across the country are ...

More than 85 Kent County nonprofits have received funding from a group of women who meet four times a year, combine their donations, and vote on where the money can help the most. Working together, ...

As Rapid Growth celebrates 20 years of community storytelling, we are revisiting stories that revealed important truths early on—truths we often recognized long before their full impact became ...

Kristin Hannah speaks on stage at Van Andel Arena during Kent District Library’s On the Same Page event, joined by fellow author and longtime friend Megan Chance for a conversation about books, life ...

In September 2018, Rapid Growth Media published the story, Neighborhoods of GR: Making Monroe North a riverside destination, in our ‘Neighborhoods of Grand Rapids’ Series. This week, we want to look ...

When Ferris State University launched its initiative in 2012 to connect with the growing Latinx population in West Michigan and to spur economic development, it had three goals in mind: to provide ...

Courtesy of Mel Trotter Ministries and the Housing Outreach Team – Mel Trotter Ministries' mobile shower unit provided 2,389 showers in 2023. Courtesy of Mel Trotter Ministries and the Housing ...

Courtesy Davenport University – Rhonda White, Davenport’s associate dean and chair of the College of Education. Jake Rewa kicked around the idea of becoming a nurse, but decided that wasn’t a good fit ...