Category Archives: Local News
Holland Voters May Decide on Proposed Broadband Expansion Initiative
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 10, 2022) - City of Holland voters may have another issue to decide when the General Election comes on November 8th. During Wednesday night's work-study session, the Holl...
Mar 10, 2022 Sean MacEntee / CC
Broadband Expansion, Long-Term Financial Forecasting Before Holland City Council on Wednesday
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Feb. 8, 2022) - Two topics will be spotlighted during Wednesday evening's Holland City Council work-study session. The first will be a presentation of a Broadband Survey Execu...
Mar 08, 2022 Holland City Hall (file photo Ralph Gutierrez for Midwest Communications)
Two Rising Authors to Speak at Hope College Tonight
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 8, 2022) - Two notable authors are slated to speak at Hope College this evening. Marianne Chan, who wrote "All Heathens" that won the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetr...
Mar 08, 2022 Marianne Chan (l) and Gabriel Bump, speaking on Mar. 8 at Hope College. (photos courtesy Hope College)
Proposed Blue Star Trail Plan to be Discussed in Saugatuck Today
SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 8, 2022) - The Saugatuck City Council wants public input before asking for money from Lansing for a non-motorized trail development. The 3 PM workshop session in the se...
Mar 08, 2022 Saugatuck city sign. File photo
Holland's St. Patrick's Day Celebration is This Saturday
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 7, 2022) - One of the first traditions that was a casualty of the COVID 19 outbreak is one of the first to be back at nearly full strength. Organizers of the annual St. P...
Mar 07, 2022 The traditional Irish snake during the Holland St. Patrick's Day Celebration Parade. (photo courtesy Holland St. Patrick's Celebration committee)
Lakeshore Lawmaker Presses Legislation on Health Officials' Local Accountability
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Feb. 7, 2022) - Two years after the start of "Stay Home, Stay Safe" in Michigan, the impact of COVID 19 has been overshadowed by events in Ukraine, high gas prices, inflation ...
Mar 07, 2022 State House Rep. Luke Meerman (R-Coopersville) (photo courtesy office of State Representative Luke Meerman/Michigan House Republicans)
Bridge Work on Byron Road East of Zeeland to Begin Monday
ZEELAND TWP, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 6, 2022) - The road construction season begins on Monday along the Lakeshore with a bridge replacement project east of Zeeland. Contractors retained by the Ottawa Cou...
Mar 06, 2022 Mar. 3, 2022; Zeeland Twp., MI, USA; A span over the Macatawa River on Byron Road east of I-196 that is slated for replacement in the spring of 2022. (photo Gary Stevens, Midwest Communications)
Hopkins Township man killed in Allegan County crash
ALLEGAN MI (WKZO AM.FM) - The Allegan County Sheriff's Department is continuing its investigation into a one-vehicle accident Friday night that killed a Hopkins man. Deputies responded to the scene of...
Mar 05, 2022
Holland Spring Cleanup Approaching
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 4, 2022) - With temperatures tickling 60 this weekend along the Lakeshore, there's no time like the present to begin spring cleaning. Holland's annual Spring Cleanup gets...
Mar 04, 2022 Dean Hochman / CC
Worker Killed at Allendale Home Construction Site
ALLENDALE TWP, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 4, 2022) - A 56-year-old man lost his life on Friday afternoon in an apparent accident at a new home construction site in Allendale. According to Ottawa County Sher...
Mar 04, 2022 Ottawa County Sheriff's vehicle. File photo
