Category Archives: Local News
Windmill Island Gardens Posts High Attendance Numbers, Extends Season
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 25, 2024) - The city of Holland Parks Division isn't about to stop a good thing when it sees it. On Tuesday, the city announced that Windmill Island Gardens' season will...
Sep 25, 2024 Aug. 3, 2023; Holland, MI, USA; The DeZwaan Windmill at Windmill Island Gardens. Mandatory Credit: Gary Stevens-Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Ottawa Co. Board Approves Budget, Administrator Selection Process
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 25, 2024) - The Ottawa County Board apparently couldn't pass a budget without a little drama. After relatively quiet hearings ahead of Tuesday's evening's final vote ...
Sep 25, 2024
Sold-Out Farms are the Tapas is Tonight in Hudsonville
HUDSONVILLE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 24, 2024) - Preserving Ottawa County's rich agricultural heritage and financial base is behind the eighth annual Farms are the Tapas event on Tuesday evening. No tic...
Sep 24, 2024 Farms are the Tapas (image courtesy Ottawa County Department of Strategic Impact)
Two Grand Haven District Schools Earn National Blue Ribbon Honors
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 24, 2024) - Two schools in the Grand Haven Area School District have been honored by the US Department of Education. On Monday, Rosy Mound Elementary School in Grand Have...
Sep 24, 2024 The US Department of Education's National Blue Ribbon School program (image courtesy US Department of Education)
Saugatuck City Council to Meet Tonight
SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 23, 2024) - After dealing with some contentious issues such as short-term rentals and airport property disposition in recent months, Monday night's biweekly Saugatuck ...
Sep 23, 2024 Drawing of Saugatuck Village Hall (image courtesy City of Saugatuck, Michigan)
Slagh to Introduce Resolution Designating November as Dutch Heritage Month in Michigan
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 23, 2024) - If other ethnic groups can get their day or their month in Michigan, why can't the Dutch? That question has compelled State House 85th District Representativ...
Sep 23, 2024 Rep. Slagh celebrates his Dutch heritage wearing traditional garb at the 2024 Tulip Time festival parade. (photo courtesy Michigan House of Representatives)
One Killed, Two Critically Hurt in Crash Near Holland State Park
PARK TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 22, 2024) - No names or any identifying descriptions were immediately made available by the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department following a fatal single-vehicle crash o...
Sep 22, 2024 Sept. 22, 2024; Park Twp., MI; USA; First responders at the scene of a fatal crash on Lakeshore Drive near Eagle Drive. Mandatory Credit: Brent Alan-Midwest Communications
Holland Public Schools to Hold Facility Update Session
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 22, 2024) - It's Holland Public Schools' equivalent of what was once seen on road construction signs - "Your tax dollars at work." On Monday evening, from 5-6:30 PM, the...
Sep 22, 2024 Holland High School (Jason Craner photo courtesy Holland Public Schools)
Dump Truck Rams Into Passenger Vehicle, Hospitalizes Its Driver Seriously
JAMESTOWN TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 20, 2024) - A 56-year-old Jenison man was seriously injured when his passenger vehicle was rear-ended by a dump truck in southeast Ottawa County on Friday afterno...
Sep 20, 2024 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
UPDATE: Charges Filed, Suspect Jailed After Collision, Assault on US-31
PORT SHELDON TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Sept. 20, 2024) - A 60-year-old Muskegon man remains in the Ottawa County Jail on charges stemming from groping a woman following a collision on US-31 between Hollan...
Sep 20, 2024 Greg Joseph DuJardine (photo courtesy Ottawa County Sheriff's Dept.)
