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A packed forum of business owners and residents urged state transportation staff Monday not to close the M-21/Fulton Street bridge for a reconstruction project during the summer of 2011.

There's a lot of debate about replacing an old bridge across the Grand River. It's not that people don't want the project, it's how the state plans to do it.

As his young son Zach took the driver's seat and tried to see over the dash of a Ford Fusion hybrid, Darryl Elmouchi admitted the vehicle had been a top choice for him, but he couldn't find one to test drive.

A high turnout expected for Monday's Township Board meeting has prompted a venue change to Ada Community Church, 7239 Thornapple River Drive SE.

As Governor Granholm prepares for her final state of the state address tonight, she will likely best be remembered for a line she delivered in her 2006 state of the state address.

Claire Maes takes her energetic PBGV, Wilmington, and docile bullmastiff, Simon, for a much needed walk along Monroe Avenue NW to the Sixth Street Park.

Approximately 1,900 Consumers Energy customers in Ada Township, the village of Ada and the northeast section of Cascade Township will have a planned power outage Saturday from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m., while utility crews repair equipment in the Thornapple substation.

Services were this morning for a Lowell soldier who was killed in action last week in Afghanistan.

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today ordered United States flags throughout the state of Michigan and on Michigan waters lowered for one day Friday, January 22, in honor of Army Sergeant Lucas T. Beachnaw of Lowell who died January 13 in Darya Ya, Afghanistan, while on active duty supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Comments 0 Recommend 0 January 22, 2010 5:17 PM LOWELL, Mich. Flags across the State of Michigan flew at half-staff Friday.

The Township Board could be asked Monday to take back a pair of cemetery lots from a former clerk.

Mourners have filed into a west Michigan church for the funeral services of 23-year-old U.S. Army Sgt.

The family of Sgt. Lucas Beachnaw says they expect the U.S. Army to bring him home Thursday, January 21, at 9:30 a.m. His body will return through Ford Airport in Grand Rapids, and then have a police-led procession to Lowell.

Ada and Lowell townships are joining Vergennes in an attempt to get high-speed Internet to more areas.

Services have been scheduled for a soldier from Lowell killed in action in Afghanistan.

The body of U.S. Army Sgt. Lucas Beachnaw is scheduled to arrive in Grand Rapids around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, and the family of the slain soldier will receive visitors at two Thursday services.

Support's coming in from around the world to honor Sergeant Lucas Beachnaw, a soldier from Lowell who was killed last Wednesday in Afghanistan.

CGI Communications Inc. will produce a video that will be added as link to the city's Web site .

ADA, Mich., BUSINESS WIRE -- Fulton Innovation , the creator and exclusive licensor of eCoupled' intelligent wireless power technology, is demonstrating wireless power in a variety of environments in their booth at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 7-10, 2010.

The man who hit and killed a Good Samaritan near Lowell over the summer was sentenced Wednesday.