For just over eight years, members of Watermark Church in Grand Haven Township have had to set up for their Sunday services and tear it all down each week.
The Michigan Department of Transportation announced Friday that it will invest $116 million to improve 75 route miles of roadway and 26 bridges in the state's Grand Region in 2012.
Today: Snow showers likely, mainly before noon. Cloudy, with a high near 31. Blustery, with a northwest wind between 18 and 26 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.
Although her team has been turning in double-digit margin of victories recently, Grand Haven coach Katie Kowalczyk-Fulmer hasn't been completely satisfied with the play of her Buccaneers' varsity girls basketball team.
Grand Haven coach Steve Hewitt said his Buccaneers' varsity boys basketball team was lacking three ‘Es' during the first-half of their O-K Red Conference game at Jenison on Friday: Enthusiasm, energy and effort.
The weather this morning led to a dicey commute for motorists in West Michigan - especially in Crockery Township where a car slammed into the back of a semitrailer truck along Cleveland Street, just west of Interstate 96.
(UPDATED: Friday, 11:40 a.m.) A winter storm warning is in effect until 5 p.m. today.
The warning area includes Ottawa, Muskegon, Kent, Oceana, Newaygo, Mecosta, Isabella, Montcalm, Gratiot, Ionia, Clinton, Allegan, Barry, Eaton and Ingham counties.
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Grand Haven came up short against Jenison, losing 66-54. The Wildcats made 12-of-14 foul shots in the fourth quarter and were lights out from 3-point range, hitting 8-of-12 triple tries. Connor Grimes led the Bucs with 15 points and eight rebounds, while Isaak Newhouse added 13 points. Korey Searle scored nine points for the Bucs (15-4, 10-4 O-K Red).
There was no medicine in the world that could help Eileen Albrecht swallow the pain of watching her son die.
Albrecht's son, Ethan, was diagnosed with leukemia in 1997 at the age of 3.
Recently selected by a panel of ice cream experts as the official Pure Michigan ice cream flavor of Michigan state parks is Pure Michigan Caramel Apple.
A dramatic increase in use of marijuana among teens - including teens in Northwest Ottawa County - was one of the emerging trends in drug abuse addressed during a free, public panel discussion presented Thursday evening at the Grand Haven 9 Theater.