Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
SpartanNash Company (formerly Grand Rapids Wholesale Grocery Company and Spartan Stores, Inc.) is an American food distribution and retail company headquartered in Byron Center, Michigan. [2] The company was founded in 1917 and was formerly known as Spartan Stores until it adopted its current name on November 19, 2013 following a merger with ...
The Alcona County Herald, a/k/a The Lincolln Herald Lincoln [25] [26] [27] The Lincoln Herald began publishing on Jan. 1, 1908 by D.C. Magahay. On Mar. 10, 1910 it changed names to Alcona County Herald with Rola E. Prescott as publisher.
The first Grand Rapids store opened on South Division Avenue in 1949. [10] By the 1960s, the company had over two dozen stores located throughout West Michigan. [citation needed] In 1962 Meijer launched its modern format with a store at the corner of 28th Street and Kalamazoo Avenue in Grand
Michigan imports all coal and nuclear fuel (uranium), and 82% of natural gas. A goal to produce over 10% of electricity from in-state renewable sources was set in 2015. Major electric companies in Michigan include DTE Electric Company (11,000 MW) and Consumers Energy (9,000 MW). [3]
On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community in the United States to fluoridate its drinking water for the intended purpose of helping to prevent tooth decay. Fluoridation became an official policy of the U.S. Public Health Service by 1951, and by 1960 water fluoridation had become widely used in the U.S., reaching ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan. Founded by George Gough Booth with his two brothers, Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications , a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976.
WGVU-TV (channel 35) is a PBS member television station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.It operates a full-time satellite station, WGVK (channel 52) in Kalamazoo.The two stations are owned by Grand Valley State University, and maintain studios in the Meijer Public Broadcast Center, located in the Eberhard Center on the GVSU Pew Campus in downtown Grand Rapids.