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SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Dominik Shine, captain of the Grand Rapids Griffins, picked up the American Hockey League weekly player award on Monday after a three-game stretch in which he scored five times and set two franchise marks. The league honor covers the week that…
SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Three players are heading south from Grand Rapids. On Sunday, Detroit moved goalie Carter Gylander from the Griffins to the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL, and Grand Rapids sent forwards Nolan Moyle and Tag Bertuzzi to Toledo as well. Gylander, 25,…
SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Griffins are getting three familiar faces back. On Sunday the Detroit Red Wings returned goalie Michal Postava plus forwards John Leonard and Nate Danielson to their American Hockey League farm club. Danielson, 22, was a first-round draft pick,…
Events
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Diners in Grand Rapids still have most of a week to take part in Restaurant Week GR, which opened Nov. 6 and continues through Nov. 14. The event, now in its 17th year, is run by Experience Grand Rapids. Participating restaurants serve menus of at least…
From HERE Lansing
LANSING, Mich. — The Lansing Fire Department cut the ribbon Monday, Nov. 9, on its new Fire Station 9 at 2320 S. Washington Ave., a roughly $7.8 million building that takes over from a station first opened in 1954. The new firehouse covers 21,000 square feet and has five apparatus…
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