🌱 How Kentwood neighbors can get a free native garden this spring

Good morning Kentwood! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How Kentwood neighbors can get a free native garden this spring
• Kentwood police records resurface in high-profile missing boater case
• Could Kentwood’s Macy’s be next after Grandville store shuts down?

Also on today's calendar: Tullymore Home - Open House and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Partly sunny and warmer, with a high of 78 and low of 49 degrees.
• Saturday: Rain and a thunderstorm, temps: high: 56, low: 34.
• Sunday: Windy; a few morning flurries, with a high of 46 and low of 27 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Free native garden program helps Kentwood homeowners purify Plaster Creek and support local wildlife (fox17online.com) — Kentwood homeowners can now apply for a free native plant garden to help clean up polluted Plaster Creek and support pollinators right in their own yards. Backed by the Kentwood Rotary Club and Plaster Creek Stewards, the program installs Michigan-native gardens that soak up stormwater, reduce runoff, and boost local wildlife. Interested neighbors in the watershed area are encouraged to sign up soon.
   

• Lynette Hooker Was 'Accused of Domestic Violence' Against Her Husband (radaronline.com) — Kentwood readers may recall a 2015 domestic incident at a local home now resurfacing as part of national coverage about missing boater Lynette Hooker. Newly reported police records from Kentwood describe conflicting assault claims between Lynette and her husband Brian, who today denies harming her and maintains hope she’s still alive.
   

• Macy's Closing Another MI Store: Here's Where (patch.com) — Kentwood shoppers may be watching Macy’s closely as the chain closes 14 more underperforming stores nationwide, including one at RiverTown Crossings in nearby Grandville this year. Macy’s lists a remaining Kentwood location among nine Michigan stores, but hasn’t said whether any of them will be next to close.
   

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📸 Around Kentwood

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Kentwood

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Tullymore Home - Open House
  6245 Dublin Dr., 6245 Dublin Dr, Stanwood
  1:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday April 22

• FHC Spring Choir Concert
  Forest Hills Fine Arts Center , 600 Forest Hill Ave SE , Grand Rap
  7:00 pm

Friday April 24

• Kentwood Arbor Day Celebration
  Rondo Street Station Park , 1950 Gerda St SE , Kentwood
  12:00 pm
• Larry Fleet
  The Intersection , 133 Cesar E. Chavez Ave SW , Grand Rapids
  6:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Paul & Joyce Carmichael
  Regency at Fremont , 4554 W 48th St , Fremont
  10:30 am
• Bing Higbee
  Village at the Oaks , 1740 Village Dr , Muskegon
  2:00 pm
• Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Michigan
  All In Pickleball Gym (Byron Center) , 400 76th St SW , Byron Center
  2:00 pm
• Christopher Sloan
  Clearstream , 240 E North St. , Hastings
  2:30 pm
• The Shop Pickleball and Fitness Ribbon Cutting
  Grandville Jenison Chamber of Commerce , 4560 Spartan Industrial Drive , Grandville
  4:45 pm
• Forest Hills Northern Huskies vs Hudsonville Eagles
  Forest Hills Northern High School , 3801 Leonard St NE , Grand Rapids
  5:30 pm
• Grand Rapids Rise
  Van Andel Arena , 130 Fulton St W , Grand Rapids
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Family Network Pancake Breakfast
  Calvary Christian Reformed Church , 3500 Byron Center Ave SW , Wyoming
  8:00 am
• Grandville Varsity Baseball @ Byron Center
  Byron Center High School , 8500 Burlingame Ave SW , Byron Center
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Looking for an apartment in the Kentwood/Wyoming area.
  Preferably a two bedroom ground/first floor. Max rent $1400/month. We have a dog. (Nextdoor Kville)

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🗞 Nearby News

East Grand Rapids

• Thunderstorms with damaging winds and penny-sized hail in Kent County Tuesday (mlive.com)
• New Playa Bowls Restaurant Opens in Holland (wgrd.com)
• House passes legislation that would require proof of citizenship to vote (legalnews.com)

Wyoming

• ONE YEAR LATER: Small businesses in Wyoming and Kentwood navigate the rising costs of Liberation Day tariffs (fox17online.com)
• 3D mobile mammogram unit to visit Cherry Health in Wyoming (woodtv.com)
• Hummingbirds have entered the chat: Sightings reported in Michigan (mlive.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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