Category Archives: Local News
Flags not to be flown at half-staff for Michigan Marines
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) -Staff SGT. Andrew Seif of the Holland area is among 11 military members aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Golf of Mexico off of the Florida panhandle. The funera...
Mar 27, 2015
Local student to compete in National Geographic State Bee
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – Benjamin Hoey an 8th grader at West Ottawa Public Schools' Macatawa Bay Middle School will be a semifinalist in the 2015 Michigan National Geographic State Bee at Western Mi...
Mar 27, 2015
Ottawa Co. United Way Reaches $2.3 Million Goal
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – On its fourth try, the Greater Ottawa County United Way finally crossed the 2.3 million-dollar threshold in reaching its goal for the annual fundraising drive. A late kick e...
Mar 27, 2015
Exam Ordered for Accused Triple Murderer LaValley
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC) – A psychiatric exam has been ordered for Corey LaValley as a preliminary hearing into open murder and arson charges has been postponed for up to two months in Allegan Distric...
Mar 26, 2015
State Superintendent Tours West Ottawa Schools, Lifts GVSU Charter Suspension
PARK TWP., MI (WHTC) – As retiring State School Superintendent Mike Flanagan visits schools in the West Ottawa district, he has lifted seven of 11 charter school authorizers from a list of possi...
Mar 26, 2015
New Zeeland Rec Director Named
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC) – There is a new Director of Zeeland Recreation, with Brett Geertsma taking over for Michael Kolean, who retires in June after 41 years in Zeeland Public Schools. A Holland Ch...
Mar 26, 2015
Two Ferrysburg women hit by car while on foot
FERRYSBURG, MI (WHTC) – Two women were injured in a Ferrysburg subdivision when a car backed up and hit them as they walked. According to Ottawa County sheriff's authorities, Margaret O'Haire, 8...
Mar 26, 2015
Toddler dies in front of family
NASHVILLE, MI (WHTC) – An accident in Barry County that killed an 18-month-old boy is being investigated by Michigan State Police. According to troopers, a man was driving a skid loader and back...
Mar 26, 2015
Greenville man who was critically injured in his horse and buggy has died
MONTCALM TWP, MI (WHTC) – A Greenville man who was critically injured as he drove a horse and buggy in Montcalm Township has died, police say. Montcalm sheriff’s department investigators i...
Mar 26, 2015
Kayaker safe after being rescued in ice
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – A kayaker stranded in ice was rescued from the channel connecting Lake Michigan to Lake Macatawa last night. Park Township firefighters and deputies from the Ottawa County S...
Mar 26, 2015
