Category Archives: Local News
COVID diagnoses in Allegan, Ottawa counties double
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Ottawa and Allegan counties have several qualities in common, and the latest is the doubling in the number of people being diagnosed with some form of COVID-19. Ottawa County's...
Jan 10, 2022 EpicTop10.com / CC
Georgetown Twp. hit-run suspect arrested
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Grand Rapids resident Aaron Michael Sawyer, 38, is in Ottawa County Jail facing charges of failing to stop at the scene of a property damager crash, according to Ottawa County ...
Jan 10, 2022 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Coopersville boy hurt in truck-tree crash
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A pick-up truck crashed into a tree on Friday afternoon, and a 17-year-old Coopersville boy went by ambulance to a Spectrum Health hospital in Grand Rapids with non-life-threat...
Jan 07, 2022 Crash under investigation (Midwest Communications, Inc. image)
Ottawa Co. road commission on winter safety
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Ottawa County's road commission compiled the following tips for winter-driving safety, noting icy road crashes cause 3.6 times more deaths than all other winter hazards, nation...
Jan 07, 2022 Passing snow plows can be dangerous, because plow blades are often hidden by snow clouds. By Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Man hit by car in Allendale Twp.
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 60-year-old Allendale man went by ambulance to Spectrum Health with arm, shoulder and head injuries after being hit by a car, according to Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Chris ...
Jan 07, 2022 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
COVID Hold Continues for Flying Dutch; Hope Men Still a Go for Saturday
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - COVID 19 is doing what no women's basketball team has done since the spring of 2019 - prevailing over Hope College. On Thursday (Jan. 6, 2022), school officials said that he...
Jan 06, 2022 Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse on the Hope College campus, Holland, MI (photo courtesy Hope College)
Members of Congress mark Jan. 6 riot anniversary
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that caused a U.S. Capitol lockdown, cost the lives of five Americans and led to more than 700 arrests, including 14 Michigan res...
Jan 06, 2022 US Capitol. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio/MWC Radio
New Ottawa Co. Court Administrator: Susan M. Franklin
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- With Ottawa County Circuit/Probate Court Administrator Kevin J. Bowling retiring next week, he introduced his successor, Susan M. Franklin, to Ottawa County's commissioners thi...
Jan 06, 2022 Ottawa County Court Administrator Susan Franklin. Courtesy, Ottawa County
Another "Snow Day" for Area Schools on Thursday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) - School districts along the Lakeshore didn't even wait until the predawn hours of Thursday (Jan. 6, 2022) before deciding on a second straight "snow day" of the new year. All of ...
Jan 05, 2022 Wen Shi / CC
Snowmobiler Hurt in Wright Twp. Trail Collision
WRIGHT TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - A 46-year-old Grandville man was injured in a two-machine snowmobile crash in an area east of Coopersville on Wednesday (Jan. 5, 2022) evening. According to Ottawa Count...
Jan 05, 2022 Andrew Malone / CC
