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#GrandRapidsMI - Heavy equipment hits the #GrandRiver as historic #DamRemoval begins
Story by Brian McVicar, July 1, 2026
"Heavy equipment rolled into the Grand River Wednesday as crews installed a temporary barrier downstream of Gillett Bridge to catch sediment and debris, the first step in a long-planned effort to remove four aging low-head dams.
"The floating yellow barrier, known as a turbidity curtain, is designed to contain clouds of sediment stirred up during construction and prevent it from drifting downstream, said Mike Staal, river restoration project manager for the City of Grand Rapids.
" 'If there’s turbidity in the water, it impacts the aquatic habitat,' he said. 'So what we want to do is just minimize any of the impact, keep the sediment where it is.'
"The turbidity curtain is just the beginning of a carefully choreographed, two-year construction effort to remove four, century-old low-head dams along a half-mile stretch of the Grand River between Fulton Street and I-196. The result, officials say, will be a more natural waterway—safer for recreation, better for fish passage and more closely resembling the rapids that gave Grand Rapids its name."
#SolarPunkSunday #DamRemoval #Michigan #GrandRapids #FishPassage #BringBackTheRapids #AquaticHabitat
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Vacant / Screaming Tonics / Mona Royal Bone and the Sloans
Bands Vacant Screaming Tonics Mona Royal Bone and the Sloans Venue - Venue name: Radio Tavern - Date: Saturday, August 18 - Other details: "Use your milk money buy beer and cigarettes!" and "please observe our no groping policy" -
Cloud Mouth / Suffix / Final Club / Old Soul / Jowls
Bands: Cloud Mouth Suffix Final Club Old Soul Jowls Venue: DAAC 8pm $6 No drugs / alcohol -
Radiator Hospital / Jowls / Shores / Hospital Garden
Bands: Radiator Hospital Jowls Shores Hospital Garden Venue: Thunderdome 2/18 7pm Doors 8pm Show $5 -
Iowa Beef Experience / The End Result
Bands Iowa Beef Experience The End Result Venue - Venue name: The Ice Pick - Address: 1128 2.0 Street Muskegon MI - Date: Saturday, January 11, 1992 - Time: Doors Open: 8pm (sharp) - Admission price: $5.00 -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/490569/ Acrisure layoffs highlight ongoing tension between tech advancement and job security #Acrisure #AI #Automation #Business #GrandRapids #JobSecurity #jobs #layoffs #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #Workforce
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Acrisure layoffs highlight ongoing tension between tech advancement and job security
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Acrisure, an insurance company based in Grand Rapids, is planning to cut hundreds of…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Jobs #Acrisure #AI #automation #Business #GrandRapids #jobsecurity #Layoffs #Technology #Workforce
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Acrisure layoffs highlight ongoing tension between tech advancement and job security
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Acrisure, an insurance company based in Grand Rapids, is planning to cut hundreds of…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Jobs #Acrisure #AI #automation #Business #GrandRapids #jobsecurity #Layoffs #Technology #Workforce
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Acrisure layoffs highlight ongoing tension between tech advancement and job security
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Acrisure, an insurance company based in Grand Rapids, is planning to cut hundreds of…
#NewsBeep #News #Jobs #Acrisure #AI #AU #Australia #Automation #Business #GrandRapids #jobsecurity #Layoffs #Technology #Workforce
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Acrisure layoffs highlight ongoing tension between tech advancement and job security
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Acrisure, an insurance company based in Grand Rapids, is planning to cut hundreds of…
#NewsBeep #News #Jobs #Acrisure #AI #Automation #Business #GrandRapids #jobsecurity #jobs #Layoffs #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #Workforce
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Grand Rapids the other night #fog ##haze #michigan #grandriver #grandrapids #bridges #foggy
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CW: Grand Rapids UICA closing
The UICA (Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts) in Grand Rapids is closing. What a bummer.
https://www.uica.org/uica-update-120822
I remember going to see art films at the Race Street Gallery in high school in the 80s. It was an intellectual wonder for a pretentious teenager like me.
UICA was acquired by Ferris State University in 2013, and lost its mojo shortly thereafter, eventually moving in 2021 into the stodgy old building that had formerly been the stodgy old Grand Rapids Art Museum.
https://kcad.ferris.edu/news/the-art-of-right-now-for-40-years-running.html
I may not have paid it much attention in years, but I feel bad for the current generation of pretentious teenagers in my hometown who have one less place to find fellow weirdos and be inspired to do interesting things. I’m sure they’ll be fine, but it’s a drag this town can’t support something like the UICA.
#art #uica #GrandRapids #michigan #news #ContemporyArt #FerrisState #kcad #kendall #KendallCollege
