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Wyoming: DDA approves $5,000 for Metro Cruise
03/20/2009
WYOMING -- Show me the value. That's what downtown business leaders said they wanted to see before re-upping annual sponsorship of the Metro Cruise, a car-lovers bash that brought more than 200,000 people to 28th Street SW last summer. Although so... Read more
WZZM Channel 13 News at Noon, August 27, 2009. Looking forward to the 5th Annual Metro Cruise weekend.
WZZM News at Noon Video
WZZM News Take 5, Channel 13, Tuesday August 25, 2009. Some of the events and the cars of the Cruise are discussed with PR Chair Denise Hughes and Executive Board Chair Rick Sturim.
WZZM Take 5 Video
Wyoming is poised to party like its 1959
by Advance Newspapers
Monday March 02, 2009, 4:22 PM
Wyoming is celebrating its 50th year as a city in 2009, and a celebration weekend is being planned for August.
Scheduled to take place August 26-29, the festivities will include a kid's day, balloon launch and glow, community parade, hospital bed push, dinner in the park, BBQ cook-off, special concert, and will culminate in fireworks to recognize this milestone.
The dates were chosen to coincide with the annual 28th Street Metro Cruise.
The planned release of a new book on Wyoming's history is also planned for that time.
Special throwback vehicle to join annual cruise
07/07/2008
WYOMING -- A popular gathering of classic cars will go back to the future this summer by displaying a vehicle once used to showcase high-tech advances as part of a traveling caravan... Read More
Cascade welcomes Metro Cruise east
08/19/2008
Every year Metro Cruise on 28th Street gains in popularity. This year as vehicles and their fans cruise Wyoming and Kentwood, the event itself will cruise east. For the first time in its four-year history, Cascade is getting in on the fun. Among ... Read More
Soaring fuel costs won't stall Metro Cruise
08/22/2008
A blue 1949 Plymouth eases down 28th Street during the 2007 Metro Cruise. GRAND RAPIDS — An odd time to just go for a cruise, is it not? Gas prices are still sky-high. Report after report indicates Americans are driving less. The slumping ... Read More
by Matt Vande Bunte | The Grand Rapids Press
Wednesday July 15, 2009, 6:08 PM
WYOMING -- Beer tents will be among the official 28th Street Metro Cruise events for the first time as organizers look to draw more Michigan visitors in a tough economy.
The fifth annual gathering of classic car enthusiasts on Aug. 28 and 29 aims to match or exceed last year's crowds, which included 15,000 vehicles and more than 300,000 people to the stretch of M-11 from Grandville to Cascade Township. Read more...
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