Last weekend, around 30 Calvin students spent their Saturday morning picking trash out of the Grand River’s surrounding banks. The students, members of Calvin’s Environmental Stewardship Coalition,...
Last Saturday, West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) hosted the 12th annual Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup. The event drew volunteers from across West Michigan, including a number of Calvin...
The landscape along the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids may soon be reimagined. In a proposed $10 million deal with Kent County, Michigan State University and Grand Rapids’ parking system, the city...
Downtown Grand Rapids and the Grand River are undergoing a revitalization. GR Forward, a local campaign dedicated to renewing the city center through urban development and river care and action, is coming...
The West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) will host its 11th annual Grand River Cleanup this Saturday at 9 a.m. at Sixth Street Park. And after attracting a record 670 volunteers last year,...
Hundreds of West Michigan residents gathered in approximately 20 locations last Saturday for the 10th annual Mayors’ Grand River Clean Up.
Led by the West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC)...
About 900 west Michigan residents combed around 30 miles of the Grand River and its tributaries’s banks last Saturday morning for refuse littered along them, according to the Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup...
Joining a larger trend of Michigan cities improving their waterways by removing dams, Grand Rapids is planning a $27 million project to remove dams and improve the waterfront of the Grand River. This project...
More than 600 college students, children and adults of all ages gathered at the Sixth Street Park in downtown Grand Rapids to participate in the ninth annual Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup on Saturday,...
