Category Archives: Local News
Holland parking board to review budget
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Holland's parking board is set to meet at 8:30 a.m. today. Agenda items include updates on budgets for the Seventh Street deck repair; parking-lot repaving; and how city offici...
Oct 25, 2021 Heeringa Holland Civic Center Place. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Fire Strikes Holland Apartment Building
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - No injuries were initially reported as Holland Department of Public Safety firefighters put out a blaze in an apartment building on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 23, 2021. Accord...
Oct 23, 2021 Holland fire truck. FIle photo
Good things on The Lakeshore
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Each week, Shandra Martinez, managing editor of The Lakeshore, talks with WHTC morning-news anchor Peg McNichol about people and organizations making a positive difference alon...
Oct 22, 2021 Peter Grimm and Craig Rich are the co-founders of the Holland Waterfront Celtic Festival & Highland Games. Courtesy, The Lakeshore
Gas pipeline pressure testing in Ottawa, Allegan counties
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- The Wolverine Pipe Line Company is set to performing a controlled pressure test for a 93-mile-long gas pipeline that runs from Niles to Ferrysburg. The tests will happen throug...
Oct 22, 2021 Ottawa County Emergency Management logo.
Motorist Injured, Ticketed in 40th Avenue Crash
GEORGETOWN TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - A 20-year-old Jenison woman was hospitalized and ticketed following a two-vehicle crash north of Hudsonville on Friday evening, Oct. 22, 2021. According to Ottawa Co...
Oct 22, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Police look for missing teen, Abby Hernandez-Alcantara
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 15-year-old Wright Township girl, Abigail Hernandez-Alcantara, is missing, according to Ottawa County Sheriff's Capt. Jake Sparks. Her nickname is Abby and she is pregnant, p...
Oct 22, 2021 Abby Hernandez-Alcantara. Courtesy, Ottawa County Sheriff's Office
Zeeland's Public Restaurant to close
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The company that owns Public Restaurant, 131 E. Main Ave. in Zeeland, has announced the eatery will close later this year. In a Facebook post, the owners wrote, "Starting Sa...
Oct 22, 2021 Public Restaurant in Zeeland. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Rumor control: Kempker says no bus driver arrests
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- After a spate of rumors that Ottawa County Sheriff's deputies could stop school buses and arrest drivers for not wearing masks, Sheriff Steve Kempker told WHTC that is not so. ...
Oct 22, 2021 West Ottawa Public Schools' bus. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
ZPS officials respond to anti-mask comments
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- An Ottawa County resident spoke during Zeeland Public School's board of education meeting Monday, suggesting she'd sue the district and invite the Michigan Militia to show up a...
Oct 22, 2021 Zeeland Public Schools (image courtesy Zeeland Public Schools)
Fatal Georgetown Twp. crash
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 19-year-old Midland woman died in a Georgetown Township traffic crash Thursday according to Ottawa County Sheriff's authorities. The crash happened just before 1:45 p.m. on O...
Oct 22, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
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