Category Archives: Local News
Tulip Time, 2022: First Bloem contest dates announced
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Tulip Time Festival (tuliptime.com) officials have announced details of the 2022 First Bloem Festival Artwork Competition. The winning artwork becomes the official Tulip Time p...
Aug 9, 2021 Tulip Time Festival (image courtesy Tulip Time Festival)
Ottawa County Citizen Survey Underway
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - If you get a phone call from Lansing, don't hang up immediately. That's the message from Ottawa County officials as a total of 400 randomly selected county residents will...
Aug 8, 2021 Ottawa County logo (image courtesy Ottawa County, Michigan)
Holland BPW Board to Consider Major Country Club Road Rebuild Project
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The Holland Board of Public Works holds its board meeting this coming Monday (Aug. 9, 2021). Among the items to be discussed in the 5 PM session at the utility's Hastings Av...
Aug 8, 2021 Holland BPW logo
Beach-hazards statement in effect
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A beach-hazards statement is in effect through late tonight, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, for Ottawa, Muskegon, Mason and Oceana counties, according to the National Weather Service me...
Aug 8, 2021 Swim safety sign at Holland State Park as the red flags fly, warning people to stay out of Lake Michigan. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Six Native American Authors/Poets Announced for Big Read Lakeshore
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - Hope College's Big Read Lakeshore program will be bolstered by six Native American authors participating this fall. The Holland school announced on Thursday (Aug. 5, 2021) t...
Aug 8, 2021 A 2021 NEA Big Read Lakeshore poster (image courtesy Hope College)
Allegan County Health Dept. Issues COVID 19 Tips
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - In an effort to better inform residents of the COVID 19 Delta variant, the Allegan County Health Department has issued the following tips in a statement issued last week (Au...
Aug 8, 2021 EpicTop10.com / CC
GVSU, Ottawa Co. Health Issues Back to School COVID 19 Health Protocols
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) - As classes for Academic 2021 approach, various health and educational entities based along the Lakeshore have issued return to school guidance. Based on revised Centers for Dise...
Aug 7, 2021 Antonio Rubio / CC
Holland's Art in the Park Returns
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Holland Friends of Art's annual fine arts and crafts fair was held on Saturday (Aug. 7, 2021) at Centennial Park. Not held in 2020 due to COVID 19 health protocols, Art in the ...
Aug 7, 2021 Image from Art in the Park at Centennial Park in Holland on Aug. 7, 2021 (photo Gary Stevens, Midwest Communications)
Man hurt in Tallmadge Twp. deer-motorcycle crash
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- A 35-year-old Allendale man went by ambulance to Spectrum Health Butterworth after the Harley Davidson motorcycle he was driving collided with a deer, according to police. The ...
Aug 7, 2021 Injury Crash Reported (image © Midwest Communications, Inc.)
UPDATE: Toxic Algae Confirmed in Allegan County's Swan Lake
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The presence of algal toxin microcystin in an Allegan County lake has been confirmed. On Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, the county's health department reported that officials from th...
Aug 7, 2021 An aerial view of Swan Lake in Cheshire Twp., MI (image courtesy Allegan County Health Department)
