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On February 15th, 2024, Shandy Longcore, Founder of Embracing Imperfections shared her story, mental health resources and coping strategies with the Hopkins Middle and High School...

Phyllis Drozd of Allegan served on the Allegan Area ESA Board of Education for 48 years. She passed away on February 14, 2024 at age 91. Mrs. Drozd started on the board of Foster...

Hopkins School Resource Officer Deputy Keefauver recently met with all Hopkins 5th-grade students to discuss the topic of bullying. Deputy Keefauver believes it is never too early...

Plainwell High School AP French students, along with their teacher Ms. Trahan, took a trip to Québec. During the trip, the students expanded their knowledge of the language and cu...

Having been in operation since 1854, Glenn School is commonly considered Michigan’s longest continuously operating rural school district. During these years, we have been gifted w...

Two programs from the Tech Center have partnered with the city of Allegan to create bike racks as part of the downtown revitalization. The racks are themed to the part of the city...

Brittany Storey, a biology teacher at the Wayland Union High School, received grant money from the Wayland Union Education Foundation to purchase equipment that would allow her st...

Most teenagers cross their arms and protest when someone asks them to help clean. But that’s not the case for L.E. White Middle School Level 2 teacher Julie Ziemelis’s students. T...

Everyone wants to feel included. Valued. That’s the focus of the first district-wide Inclusion Week, a time where the entire district comes together to focus on what it looks an...

Allegan Area ESA would like to honor its Board of Education during School Board Recognition Month. The five Board members are Larry Collier, President; Rick Day, Vice President; M...

Hopkins High School’s National Honor Society recently wrapped up their 9th annual Epic Toy Drive. Through generous donations from local families and businesses, they were able to ...

In December, Plainwell Community Schools (PCS) held their annual Shop with a Hero event at Meijer in Plainwell. During the event, 125 Plainwell Middle School students received $17...

Otsego Superintendent Jeffery Haase was awarded the 2023 Superintendent Communicator of the Year award for outstanding communications by the Michigan School Public Relations Ass...

Plainwell Community Schools educator David Clark was selected as the Otsego-Plainwell Area Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year. In November he was presented with the award by...

Allegan Public Schools Food Service Director Lisa Jilek is excited that she and her staff will have the opportunity to “freshen up” lunch offerings for the district’s students, as...

Four Hopkins chapter members received high recognition at the National FFA Convention by earning a silver medal and placing 27th in the National Farm and Agribusiness Management C...

Michael Miller, who oversees the Otsego middle and high school robotics teams, had a rare opportunity to see the world of robotics in a different way thanks to the FIRST organizat...

A vital part of the Early College Program is peer-to-peer relationships and supporting the passion students feel about the importance of the program. Over the past two weeks, the ...

At the November 21st Board of Education meeting, Dr. Sara Franzen of Allegan was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for her work with a student at Hillside Learning Center . Dr...

The Otsego High School wellness class is focused on ways to promote gratitude for themselves and others and the class has engaged in a number of activities already this year to ...