Stephen Kloosterman
Stephen Kloosterman is a staff writer for the Holland Sentinel. He writes mostly about education.
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The Holland Sentinel
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Phone:
616-546-4258
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Our story on the Dustin Lance Black’s pending trip to a screenwriting class at Hope and his “un-invite” from a sexuality discussion roundtable has been getting some attention — 43 comments, a few thousand page views — and was recently the subject of a fairly strident web post by Hollywood blogger P...
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Splash! Massive amounts of craziness last week at the West Ottawa Homecoming Pep Rally. Good times though! more Photoshere.
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I was rooting here that one of our local guys would get the nod for a teen male speaking role in the “What’s wrong with Virginia?” movie being filmed here in Holland. The movie, starring Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly, had an open role for a teen guy playing the son of Connelly’s character. I had ...
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Sentinel staffers are pitching in to launch a new blog about Holland-area entz. Head on over to About Town to plan your entertainments for the next weekend.
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So when I got into the office on Thursday, I just about had a heart attack, because the Grand Rapids Press was stating that West Ottawa had lost 10 students over the past year while My article had stated they were up by 52...
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David Kloosterman
Wow. Complicated. That's as bad as analytical chemistry!
October 2 at 8:13pm
Matthew E Kloosterman
Matthew E Kloosterman
Well, at least it woke you up good. That is just one thing that comes from working a beat for a while, you learn the ins and outs of the job. A "trick of the trade", huh.
October 6 at 2:37pm
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Holland Public’s John Vega (pictured right) was showing me around the brand-new high school Van Raalte Tech last week and introduced me to a couple of the kids. ...
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I had a story over the weekend about the ArtPrize competition, which a couple of local schools are participating in. Here’s a photo of the mural submitted by the kids at the Juvenile Detention Center — which we weren’t able to use in the paper. You ...
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Various tidbits related today’s story on the International Baccalaureate program at West Ottawa Public Schools: Schools are anticipated to receive IB authorization over the next three years: West Ottawa High School in the Fall 2010, first IB class graduates fall 2013; Great Lakes Elementary S...
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Recently did a story on President Obama’s address to school kids, which you can view above. Extra Credit assignment: Compare the text of a similar speech given by George Herbert Walker Bush in 1991 to the one given recently by Obama.
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I had interviewed U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) a few weeks ago, about the future of No Child Left Behind. I didn’t end up using the interview in a story, but I think a few teachers and nerds like myself might find the following interesting. ...
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Well, most of you probably read the story earlier. I’m assuming that more of you see the front page of the newspaper than actually read this blog. Anyway, I participated as a re-enactor at the Civil War Muster organized by The Holland Museum. Can You believe they let me fire the gun? ...
Matthew E Kloosterman
Matthew E Kloosterman
sweet, sounds like you made Bennits day.
August 13 at 10:00am
Deborah Schakel
Deborah Schakel
I sat in the barn during the rain and watched you pay very close attention. Thanks for the fun writeups.
August 28 at 7:05am
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Stephen Kloosterman
Hey! no problem! it was a lot of fun, actually.
September 25 at 8:28am
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While writing my story on the Graves Hall restoration this week, Hope College Spokesman Tom Renner let me in on a little-known fact: Holland Founder Albertus C. Van Raalte is pointing at Graves Hall...
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I got to interview an Elvis Impersonator yesterday. Who else gets to do stuff like this? Really cool. The guy I interviewed, Ryan Pelton, said that he really tries to distance himself from the King whenever he’s not on the stage. ...
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A sample ballot for the Saugatuck operating millage was posted on the Allegan County Web site recently...
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I’m headed to jail for a fund-raiser later this month. The Muscular Dystrophy Association is raising money by locking up a bunch of us up for an hour at the Carragh here in Holland. I believe the money is going to go toward helping a couple of kids with MD attend a special camp. ...