Madalyn Buursma

Grand Rapids

Digital Content Reporter at WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI)

Web Editor at Freelance

Digital Business Reporter at @NBC affiliate @WOODTV in Grand Rapids, Michigan | Formerly @CalvinChimes | she/her

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Local leotard company ‘blooming’ into gift shop near Alto

1 day ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — It started as a leotard company back in the 1980s in her mother’s living room. Now, Jill Fox is expanding Foxy’s Leotards with a gift shop near Alto, offering something for everyone. Foxy’s will celebrate its grand opening Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 8358 68th St. near Whitneyville Avenue in Caledonia Township. The celebration will include food trucks, giveaways, prizes and other fun activities.
Group backs ‘boots on the ground’ LGBTQ programs

2 days ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An endowment fund provides resources to LGBTQ+ organizations as advocates say it’s hard to find funding opportunities. Our LGBTQ Fund is one of four community partnership funds through the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, an organization that has invested more than $314 million since 1930. The fund was first established back in 2014 with a focus on helping youth experiencing homelessness.
LG Energy opens $1.4B expansion, but it isn’t producing EV batteries

3 days ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — New production lines are up and running at the LG Energy Solution plant in Holland, but they aren’t making EV batteries as originally planned. Construction on the massive $1.4 billion expansion started in 2022 at LG Energy Solution Michigan facility, which first opened at 1 LG Way off of 146th Avenue in 2011. Now, the expansion is up and running, and on Tuesday, the company hosted an event to offer a first look.
Michigan woman advocates for law to help amputee athletes

4 days ago | newsnationnow.com | Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) â€” A woman is advocating to make it easier for amputees to get prostheses that work for sports. When she was 10 years old, Nicole Ver Kuilen lost her leg to osteosarcoma, or bone cancer. Her insurance would only cover one prosthesis, and it wasn’t waterproof, wasn’t meant for physical activities and frequently broke when she ran or participated in sports.
Tickets on sale for ‘dreamscape’ maze at this year’s ArtPrize

4 days ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Tickets are on sale already for the three-story maze coming to downtown Grand Rapids as part of ArtPrize. Arborialis, an inflatable “dreamscape” from Architects of Air in the UK, will be set up at 555 Monroe Ave. near I-196 from Sept. 19 through Oct. 4. The 12,000 square-foot, three-story (32 feet at its tallest point) exhibit will be an immersive, sensory experience with light, sound and color. Tickets are on sale now for the installation.
SpartanNash to be sold at end of year in $1.77B deal

5 days ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan-based SpartanNash is set to be sold at the end of this year, it announced Monday. The grocery store chain is set to be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers in a $1.77 billion deal, SpartanNash said in a release. Shareholders will receive $26.90 per share. “We are energized by the opportunities this combination provides for our Associates and customers,” SpartanNash President and CEO Tony Sarsam said in the release.
Michigan native advocates for law to help amputee athletes

5 days ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A woman is advocating to make it easier for amputees to get prostheses that work for sports. When she was 10 years old, Nicole Ver Kuilen lost her leg to osteosarcoma, or bone cancer. Her insurance would only cover one prosthesis, and it wasn’t waterproof, wasn’t meant for physical activities and frequently broke when she ran or participated in sports. For the full conversation with Nicole Ver Kuilen, watch the video in the player above.
Westbound I-96 reopened near Coopersville after crash

5 days ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

POLKTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Westbound I-96 is back open at the 48th Avenue exit near Coopersville after it was briefly closed due to a crash. The crash happened around 8 p.m. on I-96 near the 16 mile marker in Polkton Township, the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
Expert: Iran bombing will impact oil prices, add volatility to markets

5 days ago | woodtv.com | Duncan MacLean |Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The U.S. bombing three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night will impact oil prices, an economic expert says. “The immediate reaction when something like that happens in the Middle East is that you’re going to see immediate effects on oil prices,” Paul Isely, an economics professor and associate dean at the GVSU Seidman College of Business, told News 8. He said the move adds volatility to the markets.
Man gets life in prison 27 years after body with no head, hands found in field

1 week ago | woodtv.com | Madalyn Buursma

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison for a murder that happened in 1997. Richardo Sepulveda, a 53-year-old of Cincinnati, Ohio, received the sentencing Friday in connection to the death of “John Doe,” the Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office said in a release.