With his team making its first-ever appearance in the soccer state finals, Spring Lake coach Jeremy Thelen isn't concerned about his team falling prey to big-game jitters in today's Division 1 state championship game.

Soccer state finals All games are Saturday Division 1: Grand Haven (18-1-3) vs Canton (23-1-2), noon at East Kentwood Division 2: Spring Lake (23-1) vs Auburn Hills Avondale (17-5-2), 3 p.m. at Troy Athens Division 3: Hudsonville Unity Christian (24-0-1) vs Detroit Country Day (20-4-1), noon at Troy Athens

After a 10-year absence, Salvatore Pirrotta's shoe repair business is back in Grand Haven.

Grand Haven resident Christopher Barrett arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, with his family in mid-October, ready to assume responsibilities as a senior technical consultant with the U.S. Agency for International Development.

It was really close again, but North Muskegon defeated Western Michigan Christian for the third time this year Thursday night, sending the Warriors to the sidelines of the Class C District Volleyball Tournament at Montague.

The nonprofit program ART2 (Art Renewing Teens and Treasures) is hosting an art show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in Norton Shores.

Three candidates are vying for two seats on Grand Haven's Board of Light & Power in next week's election. Gerry Witherell, 74, 527 Butler St., has been serving as a BLP director since he being appointed to the board in 2005. Witherell said he believed it was important to continue the same standard of service the BLP currently provides to customers in the Tri-Cities area - as it benefits not only residents, but large businesses as well. "If there is a problem, our people are out there in a matter of minutes,' he said.