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Today's riddle: How do billboards talk? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Fallen Leaves and Flooding: Grand Rapids Cleanup Tips (wgrd.com) — Grand Rapids officials are asking residents to clear leaves from yards and storm drains to help prevent neighborhood flooding and basement backups this fall. The city outlines how to tag yard waste for curbside pickup, where to drop it off for free at the Scribner NW facility, and how composting can turn those leaves into a boost for next year's gardens.
2. Man convicted of 2023 double murder in Grand Rapids' Burton Heights neighborhood (mlive.com) — A Kent County jury has convicted 21-year-old Casey Harmon Jr. of first-degree murder in the 2023 killings of Anayia Rodriguez and Malik Eubanks, whose bodies were found in Grand Rapids' Burton Heights neighborhood. Prosecutors say the victims were shot in a Jeep and dumped on neighborhood streets, with surveillance video and DNA evidence helping secure the verdict in a case that deeply affected southeast Grand Rapids.
3. Christina Koch's Spacesuit Is Headed Home to Grand Rapids Public Museum (sportsradio987.com) — Grand Rapids residents will soon be able to see astronaut Christina Koch's actual spacesuit at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, honoring the Grand Rapids native's historic lunar flyby mission. Along with the suit, she's sharing signed photos and a personal message linking her childhood summers in Sparta to her journey around the moon, adding a new local point of pride to the museum's Veterans display.
4. Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin condemns planned execution of Fort Hood shooter (woodtv.com) — From Grand Rapids, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin is speaking out against a plan to livestream the December execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, calling it dangerous propaganda fodder and un-American. She joins officials from both parties urging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon to cancel any public broadcast of the firing-squad execution.
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