Category Archives: Local News
Crowdfunding Campaign Underway to Build Playground at Window on the Waterfront
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - There is an online effort to make the dream of a play-and-learn nature park in Holland a reality. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Outdoor Discovery Cen...
May 19, 2021 An artist's rendering of the proposed WOW Nature Play Park in Holland's Window on the Waterfront. (Rendering courtesy of the ODC Network/MEDC)
Upton May be Leaning Toward Creating Independent Jan. 6 Investigative Commission
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) - It looks as if Fred Upton may go against his fellow Republicans in the US House again. On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, the House is scheduled to vote on a proposal to create a co...
May 19, 2021 FILE PHOTO: US House Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph. in blue shirt on left) listens as fellow Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Denver) testifies in a hearing during the 21st Century Cures Act debate in 2016. (photo courtesy office of US House Rep. Fred Upton)
Allegan County health officials push vaccines
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Allegan County Health officials are appealing to people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. County efforts to make it easier include pop-up clinics, a mobile unit and social-me...
May 19, 2021 Allegan County graphic on vaccination rates as of May 18, 2021. Allegan County
Police share alert for missing Nunica man
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Police are looking for a missing and possibly endangered man, 34-year-old Jaren Juntunen. He went missing from the Harbor Point Adult Foster Care, 17160 130th Ave., in Nunica O...
May 19, 2021 Jaren Juntunen. Courtesy, Ottawa County Sheriff's Office
Grand Haven water emergency
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Marine patrol responders were called early this morning, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, to a Grand Haven's piers on the report that a man had gone into the water. It's unclear if he fe...
May 18, 2021 Ottawa County Sheriff Marine Division. File photo
Applications Accepted for Downtown Holland Street Performer Series Acts
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Another sign of things returning to some sense of normalcy in downtown Holland is the return of the weekly Street Performer Series. Cancelled last year as a casualty of the ...
May 18, 2021 Holland Street Performer Series (image courtesy Downtown Holland)
West Ottawa Breaks Ground on New Stadium at High School
PARK TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - A tangible symbol of a $98 million school bond proposal that passed a couple of years ago was on display on Monday evening (May 17, 2021). Officials of West Ottawa Public ...
May 17, 2021 May 17, 2021; Park Township, MI, USA; coaches and athletes from West Ottawa High (left), along with West Ottawa Superintendent Tim Bearden (right of sign) and members of the West Ottawa School Board, participate in a ceremonial ground breaking of a new athletics complex on the West Ottawa High School campus. Mandatory Credit: Gary Stevens-Midwest Communications
Tax Day is today
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- If you've held off on filing your state and federal tax paperwork, today is the day to get it done or file for an extension. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. Monday, May 17, 2021. Le...
May 17, 2021 Michigan, U.S. flags. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Zeeland City council meets today
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Zeeland City council is set to meet at 6 p.m. today, Monday, May 17, 2021, at City Hall, 21. S. Elm St. A public hearing is set for 7:10 p.m. on the city's application for a co...
May 17, 2021 Zeeland City Hall file photo
Hope College Stages Commencement; Fallen Instructor Given H.O.P.E. Honor
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Hope College held its Commencement ceremonies for the graduating class of 2021 on Sunday (May 16, 2021). In two separate sessions at Ray & Sue Smith Stadium, a limited n...
May 16, 2021 Hope College Professor Jennifer Hampton, chair of Hope's physics department, was killed in a traffic crash on March 14, 2021. Courtesy, Hope College
