Category Archives: Local News
Zeeland City Council to Meet Tonight
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The Zeeland City Council holds its biweekly business meeting tonight (July 19, 2021). During the 6 PM work-study session ahead of the 7 PM meeting at City Hall, council memb...
Jul 19, 2021 Zeeland City Hall file photo
Overturned trailer stops I-96 traffic in Tallmadge Twp.
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Two people escaped injuries, but their travel trailer did not, in a crash just before 5 p.m. Sunday, July 18, 2021, that tied up traffic on I-96 for hours. The crash, near Eigh...
Jul 18, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Police car-pedestrian crash in Polkton Twp.
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 15-year-old Coopersville boy suffered minor injuries when he was struck in the arm by an Ottawa County Sheriff's deputy's police cruiser. The crash happened on the 5300 block...
Jul 18, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
School Blue Envelope Program Earns Statewide Award
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) -When classes resume in earnest along the Lakeshore in August, an effort to prevent youths from taking their own lives will also resume in earnest. Spectrum Health had set up ...
Jul 18, 2021 A file photo of what is now Corewell Health-Zeeland Hospital (image courtesy Corewell Health-Zeeland Hospital)
Good Things on The Lakeshore, July 16, 2021
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Each week, Shandra Martinez, managing editor of The Lakeshore , talks to WHTC's Peg McNichol about people and organizations making a difference along West Michigan's Lakeshore....
Jul 17, 2021 Journalist, author and photographer Mike Lozon.
Dutch remain on high alert for flooding of swollen rivers
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Emergency services in the Netherlands remained on high alert on Saturday as overflowing rivers threatened towns and villages throughout the southern province of Limburg. Tens of ...
Jul 17, 2021
Prints Available Celebrating Pure Michigan's 15th Anniversary
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - One of the more successful travel and tourism campaigns is turning 15 years old in 2021. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation established "Pure Michigan" as a way t...
Jul 17, 2021 Pure Michigan 15th Anniversary Prints (image courtesy Pure Michigan, Michigan Economic Development Corporation)
More Railroad Crossing Work Coming to Holland Area
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Some long-awaited railroad crossing work in Ottawa County will continue into next week. Officials with CSX Railroad have told the Ottawa County Road Commission, as well as t...
Jul 16, 2021 The railroad crossing sign on Central Avenue at 5th Street in Holland, MI (photo Gary Stevens-Midwest Communications)
Arrest, no injuries, after Holland Twp. car-building crash
HOLALND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 26-year-old Holland man is behind bars at the Ottawa County Jail, after a car-building crash that did more damage to the building than to people. Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt....
Jul 16, 2021 A car-building crash in Holland Township damaged the foundation of a shop on North River Avenue. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Fundraiser after house fire
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Karyn Lozano and her boyfriend are picking up the pieces after a disastrous house fire. They're dealing with insurance adjusters and the reality of irreplaceable losses, like t...
Jul 15, 2021 Karyn Lozano and her family survived a June 23, 2021 house fire, but still have a mountain of work to do. Courtesy, Karyn Lozano
