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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.
The Grand Rapids Press is a daily newspaper published in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is the largest of the print publications of MLive Media Group. It is sold for $1.50 daily and $7.99 on Sunday. AccuWeather provides weather content to the Grand Rapids Press.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
William Montague Ferry Jr. — Michigan and Utah Politician; Betty Ford — 37th First Lady of the United States [18] Gerald R. Ford — 38th President of the United States [18] Wilder D. Foster — U.S. Congressman from Michigan; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] George Heartwell — Mayor of Grand Rapids [16] [19] Paul B. Henry — U.S. Congressman [20]
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 ...
This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1] [2] The current mayor is David LaGrand, who was sworn into office on January 1, 2025. List of mayors.
Paul Gordon Goebel (May 28, 1901 – January 26, 1988) was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1920 to 1922. He was an All-American in 1921 and was the team's captain in 1922.
The Ann Arbor News was replaced by a website, AnnArbor.com, which carried daily news stories and was accompanied by print editions on Thursdays and Sundays. [4] [5] Of the 272 people employed as of the announcement of the paper's closing, "more than a dozen" were hired for AnnArbor.com. [1]