Category Archives: Local News
Beach hazards in effect today
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Meteorologists from the National Weather Service's Grand Rapids office issued a beach-hazards statement, in effect until later today, Monday, June 21, 2021. The twin threats of...
Jun 21, 2021 Waves on Lake Michigan. File photo Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Zeeland Zoom returns
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- The Zeeland Zoom went virtual during the pandemic, but organizers say it's back, set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in downtown Zeeland. Now in its 12th year, the Zoom has ...
Jun 21, 2021 Zeeland Zoom file photo. Courtesy, City of Zeeland
Fourth of July fireworks moved to August
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- -The Community Fourth of July Fireworks Celebration at Kollen Park has been rescheduled to Aug. 20, 2021. The Macatawa Area Coordinating Council (MACC), organizes the annual di...
Jun 21, 2021 Fireworks
Four hurt in three Allegan Co. crashes Friday
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A multi-vehicle crash has critically injured one person and led to a second multi-vehicle crash n Ganges Township, just before 3 p.m. Friday, June 18, 2021, according to Allega...
Jun 19, 2021 Allegan County Lt. Brett Ensfield's office. File photo
Tanker crashes, spills milk on I-196
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A semi-tractor trailer hauling milk crashed on I-196, but no one was hurt, according to Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Matt Wildfong. The crash happened after 9:30 a.m. when, acc...
Jun 18, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Good things on the Lakeshore for week of June 18, 2021
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Each week, Shandra Martinez, managing editor of The Lakeshore, talks to morning news anchor Peg McNichol about people and organizations making a difference on the Lakeshore. (L...
Jun 18, 2021 Jenny Van Veen, owner of Frances Jaye in downtown Holland, poses in front of her store. Courtesy, The Lakeshore
Poppy field owners: Keep off the flowers, please
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- The owners of the Pleasant Hill poppy fields in Fennville used Facebook to thank people for their kind compliments and suggestions -- adding they have no plans to install a fen...
Jun 18, 2021 Fennville poppy field, June 29, 2020. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Juneteenth celebration set for Kollen Park Saturday
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Holland's 21st annual Juneteenth celebration is set for 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 19, 2021, at Kollen Park. This year's theme for the freedom festival is "A Year of Atonement:...
Jun 18, 2021 The 2019 Juneteenth Freedom Festival in Holland featured food booths, entertainment, voter registration and speakers. WHTC file photo
Holland Twp. board set to meet, 7 p.m. today
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Holland Charter Township's board of trustees is set to meet at 7 p.m. today, June 17, 2021. Agenda items include: Approval of preliminary condominium requests at 11554 Greenly ...
Jun 17, 2021 Holland Charter Twp. logo
Huizenga, Congress Endorse Establishing Juneteenth as Federal Holiday
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) - President Biden is set to sign a bill in law today (June 17, 2021) to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in ...
Jun 17, 2021 US House Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland) answers a question during a tele-town hall meeting from his office in Washington, DC. (photo courtesy office of Congressman Bill Huizenga)
