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Friday, March 29, 2013

Grosse Ile Student Receives Scholar-Athlete Award

Each year the Michigan High School Athletic Association award 32 scholarships to students with a 3.5 grade point average or higher and lettered in at least one sport.

Grosse Ile High School student Keeton Ross received the Scholar-Athlete Award presented by the Michigan High School Athletic Association on March 23 at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing. The award was presented to Ross during the 2013 MHSAA boys basketball finals. Ross will receive a $1,000 scholarship Farm Bureau Insurance, which he can use at the college of his choosing. Farm Bureau Insurance awarded 32 scholarships, proportionately by school classification, to students with a 3.50 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average who have previously lettered in at least one sport in which postseason competition is sponsored by the MHSAA, according to an MHSAA release. *The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation…

Monday, September 17, 2012

Trenton and Grosse Ile Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

One students from Trenton High School and two students from Grosse Ile High School were selected as semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program.

About 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools across the country entered the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program, but only 16,000 were selected as semifinalists. Of these 16,000, two hail from Grosse Ile and one from Trenton. Among the semifinalists announced Sept. 12 in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program were Grosse Ile High School students Daniel Brausch and Keeton Ross; and Trenton High School student Ian Boettner. These select high school seniors will now compete for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million. Ninety percent of the semifinalists are expected to advance to the finalist level and more than half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship and earn the title of…

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10:23 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012

Our Senator, Patrick Colbeck, has blocked SEVERAL people from posting on his "senator" facebook page, so I had to email him instead to remind him that not only did kids in Plymouth Canton meet this honor, but, hey, so did our kids downriver!   more ›

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