Stephen Kloosterman is a staff writer for the Holland Sentinel. He writes mostly about education.
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- Dustin Lance Black @ Hope College 9:26am Oct 29
- Panther Pride 11:25am Oct 15
- Buzzkill! 1:59pm Oct 12
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...
Splash! Massive amounts of craziness last week at the West Ottawa Homecoming Pep Rally. Good times though! more Photoshere.
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 ...
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.
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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.
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. ...
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? ...
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...
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. ...
A sample ballot for the Saugatuck operating millage was posted on the Allegan County Web site recently...
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. ...
