One of the last movies the Koestner family watched before leaving Grand Haven was “The Hobbit.”
For a few hours each week, Kevin Benedicto inhabits an otherworldly realm: Icewind Dale, a perilous land of tundra and frost, wizards and orcs, white dragons and crag cats. His domain is the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, the addictive tabletop role-playing game that made its debut more…
Put your creative skills to the test by creating a snowman using any materials – just not snow – in Grand Haven’s first Snowmen on Main Street competition.
The end of another year offers time to take stock of the good, the bad, and in the case of Nathan Goldberg, the birds.
Family Video, the Chicago-based video rental chain that outlasted Blockbuster, VHS tapes and the “be kind rewind” mantra, is closing its stores and calling it quits after 42 years.
The Armory Art Center, which has been operating for five years out of the Armory Building in Grand Haven, is adding a second location called the Armory Art Center Studio 2.
AAA Travel expects a majority of Americans to stay at home this holiday season.
Paige Horist says she has been planning to be a singer for as long as she can remember.
Mike Smith, executive director of the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival, said he’s eagerly looking forward to the 2021 event, which is scheduled to take place July 30 through Aug. 8.
Local Coast Guard personnel received a holiday surprise last week, thanks to the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival staff.
Home for the Holidays – West Michigan Symphony’s virtual Yuletide concert – features a guest appearance by Grand Haven’s Diane Penning.
NEW YORK (AP) — In the most seismic shift by a Hollywood studio yet during the pandemic, Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday announced that all of its 2021 film slate — including a new "Matrix" movie, "Godzilla vs. Kong" and the Lin-Manuel Miranda adaptation "In the Heights" — will stream on H…
Sorry, amateur cardboard sled artisans, but Grand Haven’s premier snow-season entertainment, Winterfest, is the latest in a long string of delays, cancellations and postponements caused by COVID-19.
When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced earlier this week that a ban on in-person dining was extended through Dec. 20, Annette Nelson was crushed.
Santa and Mrs. Claus cruised through the Tri-Cities in a bright-blue convertible Saturday evening, waving to crowds of people who lined the route.
If you traveled over the Thanksgiving holiday, you should be in quarantine.
A group of Michigan doctors are urging restaurants not to rush to reopen dining rooms as COVID-19 infections continue to surge across the state.
One of the few reasons that Evan Cihak got into bladesmithing was because it was unique, exciting, and a little dangerous.
The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival Inc. is offering a “Welcome to Coast Guard City, U.S.A.” poster as a way to help raise money toward the 2021 festival.
A book on “Prohibition in Southwestern Michigan” written by Grand Haven residents Norma Lewis and Christine Nyholm is now available from Arcadia Publishing.
The Spring Lake Sparkle holiday decorating event kicked off Friday evening.
At Lake Effect Kitchen – a meal prep and catering business near the corner of Fulton Avenue and Beechtree Street – the kitchen is where the love starts, but not where it ends.
Matt Varley knows a thing or two about preparing a Thanksgiving feast.
Developing an artistic knack begins not only with strong perseverance, but a commitment to falling in love with the process.
The more intimate Thanksgiving gatherings expected this year because of the COVID-19 virus pandemic is driving up demand for smaller turkeys and leaving bigger birds sitting idle in store freezers.
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS — The Getty Drive-In Theater will be open during Thanksgiving week for the first time in its known history, providing a source of entertainment applicable during a pandemic.
Off the Record, nestled at 1114 Washington Ave. in Grand Haven’s east-side Washington Square business district, is a vinyl maelstrom.
Grand Haven will once again have local cable TV programming.
Reacting to Sunday’s announcement of the state health department’s decision to implement a three-week closure of restaurant dining rooms, some local restaurant owners and managers say it’s necessary for public safety. Others say it’s a strong-arm political move.
HOLLAND — “A Virtually Celtic Christmas” concert is coming to the Holland Civic Center Place on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m.
MUSKEGON — Local musicians and vocalists are encouraged to participate in Muskegon Community College’s Virtual Music Gift, an online celebration that will replace the college’s traditional holiday concert at the Frauenthal Center.
This year’s Jingle Bell Parade through downtown Grand Haven has been put on hold and will be replaced by a Santa Cruise.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s latest restrictions on indoor social gatherings has local restaurant owners scrambling to determine the legality of the order, and ponder what effect the restrictions will have on already suffering businesses.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is playing tricks on families’ plans to celebrate Halloween.
FRUITPORT — Students at Edgewood Elementary School have a new source of motivation this fall – a book vending machine.
The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival’s theme for 2021 will focus on the women who currently serve in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Trikers say they hear the same question over and over: Is that thing comfortable?
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — The Grand Haven area’s local movie theater, the Grand Haven 9, has an uncertain future as theaters across Michigan are allowed to reopen today.
Family Video announced this week that it will close its store at 805 Beacon Blvd. in Grand Haven.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Grand Haven Hispanic Fiesta, organizers faced a challenge – how to organize a second festival without a large public gathering due to COVID-19.
Kick off the fall season with the Grand Haven Farmers Market during its annual Pumpkins at Chinook Pier event from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26.
A few hundred people took advantage of a pleasant Sunday afternoon to stroll through Grand Haven’s Duncan Memorial Park for a pop-up art show hosted by the Lakeshore Visual Arts Collective.
The Grand Haven Musical Fountain season has ended, but not because of COVID-19.
Dave Sullivan has gone from working quietly alone at his Ann Arbor home to spending every minute of every day alongside his wife and three young kids with remote learning schedules.
SPRING LAKE — Stefanie Herder says she knew she was on to something when she recommended that her family should do a “nacho table” – a tabletop full of tortilla chips, cheese, taco meat and peppers.
Most microbreweries in Michigan have tip-toed into the hard seltzer game since White Claw boomed in summer 2019, releasing a craft seltzer here and there to go with a smorgasbord of beers.
Ten local artists put their talents, and their works, on display during Saturday's Art Trail.
MUSKEGON — The West Michigan Symphony will be bringing Beethoven, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and other classical composers directly in your living room this fall.
In a year where a global pandemic has wiped out most art shows, a group of local artists put their heads together and came up with a new type of event this past weekend.
Dancing on the Grand celebrated its 50th season Wednesday, Aug. 19, at Lynne Sherwood Waterfront Stadium in downtown Grand Haven.
Dancing on the Grand celebrated a masked birthday this summer, but that didn’t stop the event from being a successfully social-distant slew of dancing and live music.
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