It will be at least another month until the Spring Lake Township Board considers removing or relocating a warning siren in North Holiday Hills. Several neighbors attended Monday's Township Board meeting to voice their displeasure about the siren, which has been in its current location at 18710 Mohican Drive for almost a decade.

A former Gage Motor Mall employee will serve 210 days in jail for embezzling more than $70,000 from the business where she once served as office manager. Amy Ruth Barnes-Trusty, 38, of Muskegon was also placed on probation for 60 months when he was sentenced Monday in Ottawa County Circuit Court. She will be allowed to participate in the work release program. Barnes-Trusty was ordered to pay restitution of $72,565, and pay fines and costs of $266. She was also sentenced to 210 days in jail for forgery. The sentences will be served at the same time.

A West Michigan steelmaker said it bought a former foundry and plans to start producing castings there next year. The Associated Press reported on Monday that Muskegon-based Michigan Steel Inc. bought the former Kurdziel Industries foundry in the Oceana County village of Rothbury in June and plans to rename it Rothbury Steel. Michigan Steel President Chris Moein said the facility could employ between 150 and 200 people. Moein said the company plans to start producing steel castings in the renovated plant by the first quarter of next year.

The unexpected rain showers Saturday morning that lasted into the early afternoon didn't stop the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival Grand Parade. But the TV meteorologists that braved the parade route got their fair share of heckling from the wet crowd. "On target? Not so much today!' Grand Haven resident Belinda Clark shouted to the WZZM-TV "On Target Weather' van as it passed her on Seventh Street at Pennoyer Avenue.

Firefighters had to put out an unexpected light show next to the Grand Haven Musical Fountain on Dewey Hill on Friday night. According to Sgt. Mike Ercole of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety, crews from Ferrysburg, Grand Haven and the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department Marine Patrol were dispatched at about 10 p.m. on a report of a 50-by-50-foot wildfire on the hill. Ercole said the likely cause of the fire was because of fireworks that were set off in the area, but they aren't sure who launched the fireworks.

U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, will host a "town hall meeting' in Grand Haven on Wednesday to discuss the debt vote and other federal issues. The meeting at the Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Ave., is open to the public. It will begin at 7 p.m.

The Township Board will revisit discussions on a fire service contract with the Village of Spring Lake at 7 p.m. today at Township Hall, 106 S. Buchanan St. Last month, the contract approval failed due to a tie vote. Clerk Carolyn Boersma was absent from the July 11 meeting, and is expected back Monday night to break the tie. The agreement, an updated version of the original 1976 contract between the township and the village, does not raise the $12,000 rate that the village has paid since the contract was first signed.