As the calendar flips to a new year, millions of Americans pledge to improve their financial lives. But without a concrete plan, those well-intentioned resolutions often fade quickly. Financial goals ...
This movie artifact from “The Addams Family” (1991) is a part of the Just Off Broadway collection. It was wrapped around Grand Rapids native actress Elizabeth Wilson when she was looking through the ...
In the early decades of the 20th century, the steady arrival of automobiles in Hastings signaled more than a technological shift—it marked a turning point in the town’s commercial identity and daily ...
I get amazing questions from curious kids all over the world. So many of you want to know whether chickens or eggs came first. It turns out, that’s one of the first questions I ever received—way back ...
Two local parents are kicking off the new year with a new bundle of joy. Erin and Garrett Holmes, of Hastings, welcomed their new daughter, Clara Elizabeth, at 12:55 p.m. last week on New Year’s Day, ...
As holiday and New Year cards are arriv­ing and filling our mail­boxes, we’re reminded of something easy to for­get in today’s world: the simple, enduring power of physical mail. Just yesterday I ...
Fredrick J. Newton, born May 31, 1945, in Hastings, MI, to Elsworth and Alice Newton, passed away peacefully at his home in Hastings, surrounded by his loved ones, on December 27, 2025. Fred was a ...
On very clear days, I can see five volcanoes from my campus. They’re Rainier, Hood, Adams, St. Helens and Baker. That’s…a lot. I asked my friend Katie Cooper about it. She’s a geophysicist at ...
The Hastings varsity girls’ wrestling team finished off a weekend sweep by the high school wrestling program winning the Gull Lake Girls Blue Devil Classic Sunday. Hastings had four flight champions ...
Your smartphone buzzes with an alert: Your budgeting app has spotted an unusual spending pattern and suggests transferring $50 from your savings account to your checking account. Later that day, a ...
Members of the Delton Kellogg High School Marching Band were able to escape the cold of Michigan’s December while honoring our nation’s veterans in Hawaii earlier this month. After a nearly 20-hour ...
It’s safe to say the Panthers are hoping for better this season. The Delton Kellogg varsity wrestling team brings back four of its five regional qualifiers from a year ago including a pair of state ...