We’re blessed to live in such beautiful community. Visitors come from hundreds of miles away to partake in the wonder of our natural surroundings that we are fortunate to be able experience on a daily basis.

Many colleges have had their spring graduation ceremonies, and the end of the high school year is less than a month away. It’s time to think about “summer reading.”

Thumbs up to Grand Haven’s Collette Hansen ...

I was 32 years old on the Dec. 26 that I first learned my birth mother’s name: Kathy.

What do you think of the welfare reform measures being considered by the state Legislature?

Remember the story of the Greek mathematician Archemides, who ran through the streets of Athens wet and naked shouting, “Eureka, I have found it!”? He was so excited about his discovery of how to measure density by water displacement (his own while bathing in the tub) that he forgot he didn’t have any clothes on.

Recently, Grand Haven Area Public Schools Superintendent Keith Konarska announced that the district is facing a $3 million deficit for the 2013-14 school year.