Category Archives: Local News
Thursday is National Nurses Day
ZEELAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Thursday (May 6, 2021) is a day to honor those who serve in the medical field. It's National Nurses' Day, the start of National Nurses' Week, and more than a year of being a...
May 06, 2021 A file photo of what is now Corewell Health-Zeeland Hospital (image courtesy Corewell Health-Zeeland Hospital)
Tulip Time Festival 2021 Winding Down
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The 91st Tulip Time Festival is winding down. Although there are no Dutch Dancers or parades due to COVID 19 health concerns, visitors from near and far have flocked to the ...
May 06, 2021 Holland Mayor Nathan Bocks (photo courtesy City of Holland)
Body Cams, Dash Cams OK'd for Ottawa County Sheriff's Department
WEST OLIVE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Christmas may be more than seven months away, but Steve Kempker got a gift from the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners last month. The Sheriff had been pushing to get b...
May 06, 2021 Ottawa County Sheriff Steve Kempker (photo courtesy Ottawa County, Michigan)
Hope Summer Repertory Theatre Announces 49th Season Slate
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - It has taken a year for the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre to announce its calendar for its 49th season. A total of six productions will be put forward by the program, establ...
May 05, 2021 Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (image courtesy Hope College)
Outgoing Local School Leaders Pleased with Bond Proposal Passages
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - It was a good "parting gift" by the voters on Tuesday (May 4, 2021) to outgoing Holland Public Schools Superintendent Brian Davis. A $74.6 million bond proposal for various ...
May 05, 2021 May 5, 2021; Holland, MI, USA; Dr. Brian Davis, Superintendent of Holland Public Schools, during a video interview. (image courtesy Holland Public Schools)
"Yes" the Word of Election Day Along Lakeshore
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) - Voters were in an approving mood along the Lakeshore on Tuesday, as all 12 proposals on the May 4, 2021 ballot involving Allegan & Ottawa county-based schools and municipal ...
May 04, 2021 May 4, 2021; Holland, MI, USA; Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (center) talks with a City of Holland staffer in front of an absentee ballot drop box outside of Holland City Hall while Ottawa County Clerk/Register of Deeds Justin Roebuck (right) looks on during an Election Day appearance. Mandatory Credit: Gary Stevens-Midwest Communications
Plainwell woman faces child porn charges
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Allegan County Sheriff's Computer Crimes officials issued an internet safety alert yesterday when announcing an arrest of a 27-year-old Plainwell woman, Allie May Teed, and cha...
May 04, 2021 Plainwell resident Allie May Teed. Courtesy Allegan County Sheriff's Office
Holland man sentenced for secret-camera use
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 38-year-old Holland man, Chad Nicholas Overbeek, has been sentenced to five years' probation after pleading no contest to capturing and distributing images of an unclothed pe...
May 04, 2021 Chad Michael Overbeek. Allegan County Sheriff's Office
Limited Election Day Along Lakeshore Today
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) - Voters will be asked to go to the polls in several Ottawa & Allegan County communities today (May 4, 2021). Ballot proposals will be before electors living in the Holland, W...
May 04, 2021 Holland residents lined up outside City Hall after 7 p.m. to vote on Nov. 3, 2020. Peg McNichol/Midwest Communication
Two Hurt in Ferrysburg Crash
FERRYSBURG, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Both motorists were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Ferrysburg late on Monday (May 3, 2021) morning. According to Ottawa County Sheriff's Sergeant Christopher Dill, fir...
May 03, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
