For more than 120 years, Grand Haven residents and visitors have looked up to the clock atop First Reformed Church.

A psychotherapist who is often quoted for articles and is a guest expert on family issues for radio and TV shows has laid out "The top 10 questions to ask yourself" to see if you are a "positive parent" already, or need some work.

What do you think about the sentencing for Baby Bentley's dad?

Fashion is her love and a Grand Rapids woman named Tieka puts it into all of her blog posts. She also loves lighthouses.

As a high school senior in 1968, I read "Burn Baby Burn: the Los Angeles Race Riot 1965" by Jerry Cohen and William S. Murphy. I don’t remember my government teacher’s name, but I can still visualize the cover of that book — red, with bright yellow lettering; a member of the National Guard shadowed in the background, an assault rifle at the ready.

If there ever was a situation of having a fox guard the hen house, it’s Michigan’s Catastrophic Claims Association.

Spring Lake school leaders don’t seem to want to talk much about a committee’s work on a proposal that could ultimately result in the closure of Jeffers Elementary School. That much is clear.