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Pet dental care

Dental health is a very important topic, one that I believe isn’t spoken about often enough.

Radiant Rockford: ‘It’s the people’

Seth Rivard and Jeff Sheehan opened the Rockford Brewing Company doors in 2012, taking over a vacant building at 12 E. Bridge St.
The Hero Foundation collects Christmas gifts for families in need during the holiday season.

The Hero Foundation Offers Families Relief During Holiday Season

As the holiday festivities begin, The Hero Foundation wants to remind the community not every family is lucky enough to afford Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas presents let alone pay for everyday necessities. Families coping with cancer are not only concerned with the emotional aspects of the disease, but they must deal with the financial side effects of cancer as well.

Care for everyone

Dr. Abha Gupta Varma, a physician at Cherry Health, has been practicing for just over two decades. Familiar with the nuances of medicine since she was a kid — both of her parents were doctors — Varma strives to provide the best care she can by talking to patients early and often.

Big city dining

Recent restaurant additions make Holland a fun place for foodies.

Lifting a community with art

For the second year in a row, businesses that call the ZIP code 49507 home are featuring murals by Black, brown and LGBTQ+ artists to tell the stories of the people who live and work in this community.

Eco Fashion: It Looks Good On You

Who knew you could respect life, prevent pollution, connect with nature and look fabulous doing it?
"White Cube Backpack" by Megan Galvin.

Mobile Venues Bring Artists’ Work Beyond “The White Cube”

Megan Galvin is a recent visual studies graduate from Grand Valley State University on a mission to remind us all to keep re-imagining the world. “I am interested in how and when people feel a sense of togetherness, and I want to investigate and celebrate that in my work,” she said.

Pressing matters in cider

For most small businesses, the pandemic presented some incredibly challenging times.

Wine for the people

Here is something important to remember about George W.C. Walker III: Before he was 21 years old, he was in West Michigan, already studying for his sommelier exam.

Planning a large gathering?

It was a family reunion planned for everyone in the family to enjoy. 

‘Pure elation and joy:’ Calvin University grad achieves soccer dream

Chris Morrish found the perfect environment as goalkeeper for Calvin University and propelled that to a professional contract.
Lauren Figueroa at home with her plants. Photo by Johnny Quirin

The Healing Power of Plants

Need more green in your life? Experts say we all do — green leaves, vines and stems.
Jolly Pumpkin

The Globe Trotting Brewer Behind Jolly Pumpkin

There might not be a more well-traveled brewer than Ron Jeffries, the brewer behind the beers at Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales. With Jolly Pumpkin Pizzeria and Brewery opening this week, 428 Bridge St. NW, GR|MAG decided to chat with Jeffries to get to know how his magical beers come together.

Festival charts course for the future

Monica Pritchard said she didn’t enter ArtPrize in 2021 expecting to win. But her project — a repurposed phone booth full of memories — filled the Blue Bridge and took her all the way to the grand prize.

Local influencer

Sara Visser turned her love of Grand Rapids into a thriving Instagram.

A modern touch

Two century-old homes undergo extensive transformations.

It’s Swingtime!

Summer is in the air, my friends, and all is right in the world.

MeXo: Restaurant of the Year 2024

The Grand Rapids restaurant scene seemed to finally turn around in 2024, with multiple exciting openings helping reinvigorate what had been a tough several years following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Redemption

Given President Biden’s October 6, 2022 address vowing to pardon prisoners incarcerated at the federal level for simple marijuana possession, many have been hopeful friends and family would be released from federal incarceration due to cannabis prohibition, and the war on drugs.

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