Celebrated chefs and the entire Hospitality & Culinary Program at Kent Career Tech Center received honors this week from the Greater Grand Rapids American Culinary Federation at their annual awards banquet.

Citing the extraordinary challenge of searching for new leadership amid a worldwide pandemic that has brought huge stress on educators at all levels, the Kent ISD School Board today suspended its search for a new superintendent and asked Interim Superintendent Ron Koehler to remain until conditions return to "some sense of normalcy."