Category Archives: Local News
Red flags out through Wednesday evening
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Red flags will be out on Lakeshore beaches through at least 8 p.m. Wednesday. Over the holiday weekend two men drowned, one in Saugatuck and one in Park Township. National Weat...
Sep 07, 2021 Swim safety sign at Holland State Park as the red flags fly, warning people to stay out of Lake Michigan. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Police Chase Ends in Crash; Two Hospitalized
ZEELAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Two people from Holland were injured in a single-vehicle crash east of Zeeland that ended an apparent attempt to flee police during the overnight hours on Monday (Sept....
Sep 06, 2021 Police Investigation (Shutterstock image licensed to Midwest Communications)
Man from Mason Succumbs in Lake Michigan Waters
PARK TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - A 67-year-old man from the Lansing area lost his life in the waters of Lake Michigan on Saturday morning (Sept. 4, 2021). According to Ottawa County Sheriff's Sergeant Bra...
Sep 04, 2021 Ottawa County Sheriff Marine Division. File photo
Two Hurt in Wright Twp. Motorcycle Crash
WRIGHT TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Two persons on a motorcycle were seriously injured in a crash along a curved roadway in eastern Ottawa County on Friday evening (Sept. 3, 2021). According to Sheriff's L...
Sep 03, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Efforts to Free Stuck Barge North of Holland Continue
PARK TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The effort to get a barge unstuck from the shores of Lake Michigan north of Holland continues. According to Ottawa County Emergency Management Director Lou Hunt, his offic...
Sep 03, 2021 Barges on Lake Michigan, 2019. By Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Suspect Sought in Attempted Saugatuck High Student Abduction
SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Some more information has come out in the search for a man who allegedly tried to grab a Saugatuck High School student outside of the school building on Thursday (Sept. 2,...
Sep 03, 2021 Sept. 3, 2021; Allegan, MI, USA; A sketch of a man wanted for questioning in an attempted abduction of a Saugatuck High School student on Sept. 2, 2021. Mandatory Credit: Allegan County Sheriff's Department-handout
Two seriously hurt in Georgetown Twp. car-semi crash
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Ottawa County Sheriff's detectives are investigating a car-semi-tractor-trailer crash which sent a 15-year-old girl and a 31-year-old woman, both from Hudsonville, to Spectrum ...
Sep 03, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Hours limited for Saugatuck's chain ferry
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Saugatuck's chain ferry has altered house for the 2021 Labor Day weekend, according to a Facebook post by the chain ferry manager. This chain ferry is believed to be the last o...
Sep 02, 2021 Saugatuck chain ferry. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Haworth grand re-opening today
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Hope College's Haworth Hotel's grand reopening is set for 4 to 6 p.m. today, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The hotel reopened in June after a $7.5 million remodeling project, which ...
Sep 02, 2021 An artist's rendering of the lobby at the Haworth Hotel in Holland, MI. (image courtesy Hope College)
Kids Food Basket aims for 150k bags
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Kids' Food Basket officials are challenging people to help decorate 150 lunch bags by Sept. 30, 2021 -- Brown Bag Decorating Day. The want to use the bags for the non-profit's ...
Sep 01, 2021 Kids Food Basket decorated lunch bags. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
