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Muskegon Designates August 15-21 as Lake Effect Boat Time Week to Showcase Its Lakes to Out-of-Towners

“I started thinking about some of the great festivals we have here: Summer Celebration, Taste of Muskegon… It came over me and I wondered why these festivals weren’t connected with maritime history,” said Hudsonville’s Roger Zuidema

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With A $10.5 Million Deficit, Muskegon School Board Hears Plan For Budget Cuts

The plan is designed to make cuts across the board. On the chopping block: summer recruitment efforts, 30 teachers, 5 administrators, 5 parapros, 17 support staff, $200K for community education, several varsity and JV sports, all swimming pools in the district, and much more.

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Muskegon School Board Hands Out Mass Pink-Slips; All Employees To Learn Fate Beginning Of June

Muskegon’s school board voted to not just pink-slip some segments of its employee base, but to send out non-renewal notices to all who are employed by the district. While no one is necessarily out of a job yet, no one knows for sure they will be employed after July 1 either.

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