With his team's season on the line in a shootout, Spring Lake varsity soccer coach Jeremy Thelen put the Lakers' fortunes on the shoulders of goal keeper Nora Reed during Tuesday's Division 2 regional semifinals at Cedar Spring High School.

City beachgoers will soon have a new place to use the restroom. The city of Grand Haven has approved contracts with Muskegon-based Tridonn Construction to begin work on a new restroom at Grand Haven City Beach. The contract, at a cost of $171,113, was approved unanimously during the Grand Haven City Council meeting on Monday night. "It has been a long time coming for our citizens to have something to use down there aside from the lake or the long haul down to the state park,' City Councilman Mike Fritz said.

A crack in a pipe near the meters at the J.B. Sims Power Plant on Harbor Island caused momentary concern Monday night, but the leak was isolated without incident, according to plant director Jeff Chandler. Grand Haven Department of Public Safety responded to the power plant after a gas leak was discovered in a 6-inch main at about 9:45 p.m., Chandler said. The gas company responded and the gas was shut off within a half hour.

After nearly two years as a partial two-way street, Columbus Avenue from Harbor Drive to Fourth Street has returned to being a one-way street. This move comes on the heels of Grand Haven City Council on Monday night taking no action on whether it should be one-way or two-way. A proposal to turn it into a two-way road from Harbor Drive to Fifth Street had been on the City Council agenda, however Councilman Bob Monetza asked that it be removed due to a lack of support from other members of City Council.

Six weeks ago, Jeremy Thelen never would have guessed he'd be sporting a mohawk. Of course, at that time, Thelen's Spring Lake varsity girls soccer team appeared to be going nowhere fast, mired in a mild slump that left the Lakers with a record right at .500. But the Lakers have come a long ways since then. On Saturday, they beat Fruitport, 3-0, to claim the Division 2 district championship, two weeks after wrapping up a share of the Lakes Eight Conference title.

Riley Hall, a 2008 Grand Haven graduate, recently wrapped up a successful season as a member of the University of Michigan rowing team. One of the highlights of Hall's season was a victory with the Wolverines' Men's Varsity 8 team at the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia on May 14 - the nation's largest rowing regatta with over 140 colleges and 3,000 rowers competiting in the two-day event. Hall's Varsity 8 team finished first with a boat length margin, and a time of 5 minutes, 48.65 seconds to claim the coveted Aberdeen Trophy.