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The Chamber of Commerce Grand Haven-Spring Lake-Ferrysburg recently announced that two of its community events, the Grand Haven Art Festival and Coast Guard Craft Fair, have been recognized as a part of Sunshine Artist magazine’s 200 Best Shows in America ranking.
Spring Lake resident Robert DeJonge was named the winner of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’ People’s Choice award in the 2019 West Michigan Area Show.
Art will be on the waterfront this weekend.
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The East side of Grand Haven was filled with the sounds of 46 different bands on Saturday afternoon for this year’s Walk the Beat music festival.
SPRING LAKE — Whistlestop Playground along the Lakeside Trail non-motorized path has not only gained public art this summer, it’s gained reading material.
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The rainy beginning of the summer was a downer for most people, but those gloomy days made for a bigger, better blueberry crop today, according to Chad Reenders.
FERRYSBURG — The 13th annual Smith’s Bayou Chili Cookoff is set for Saturday, Aug. 24, and it will be a benefit for Four Pointes Center for Successful Aging.
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The Michigan Pirate Festival continued its shenanigans Thursday morning with a “dress like a pirate” costume contest.
This week's #TBT gallery looks back at Coast Guard Festivals from 1964, 1965 and 1966. They look a little bit different from today's festivals. Enjoy!
The Scottville Clown Band performed prior to Saturday's Coast Guard Festival Grand Parade on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019.
Images from the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival's Grand Parade on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019.
Nobody celebrates an armed service like Coast Guard City USA, according to Master Chief Petty Officer Jason Vanderhaden.
Beginning today, the Tribune’s daily comics offering will change.
Choose a legal parking spot and pick up your trash.
The newest stone slab on Grand Haven’s waterfront will recognize the most senior enlisted position within the U.S. Coast Guard, half a century after its creation.
“He’s still in charge – I’m just the go-fer,” joked Scott Klaassen as a group of Coast Guard Festival and carnival officials rallied around the longtime chairman of the festival’s carnival committee, Dan Guzek, on Wednesday.
Marking spots for the Coast Guard Festival fireworks show or parade all day Thursday is “what you do in Grand Haven,” according to Jay Wagoner.
There was smoke but no fire, and the fourth annual Coast Guard Festival Waterball Tournament went on to completion after a radiator hose blew on the fire truck pumping water for the event.
Doug and Diana Sovis parked their fifth-wheel camper at the Covenant Life Church parking lot for 25 years so they could be in the thick of things during the Coast Guard Festival.
The seventh annual Coast Guard Festival Senior Day at Mulligan’s Hollow not only provided entertainment to hundreds of senior citizens, but it also showed that the growing senior community is active and thriving.
The Grand City Skiers put on a show Tuesday night, with human pyramids and jumps to impress a packed Lynne Sherwood Waterfront Stadium.
A perfect summer day greeted hundreds of children Tuesday at the Coast Guard Festival’s annual Kids Day at Mulligan’s Hollow.
Up until a few hours before showtime, Jaycee Peters had made up her mind not to attend Monday's Festival Idol.
The 40th annual Coast Guard Run was filled with triumphs and lots of emotions Saturday morning, especially for the Syrek family.
Heroes and Legends was the theme of the annual Coast Guard Festival Cardboard Boat Race, but some of the heroes found their boats making a break for the launch instead of the seawall finish line Saturday afternoon.
The Coast Guard Festival brings approximately 350,000 people into Grand Haven each year, which means a spike in business for many local restaurants, stores and hotels.
The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival kicks off this weekend, and four of the first weekend’s many events lead off our list.
The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival kicks off Friday with the Lighthouse Quilt Guild show and wraps up with the Fireworks Extravaganza the evening of Aug. 3.
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The annual Festival Idol singing competition has always drawn some of the top vocalists from the Lakeshore to Grand Haven’s Waterfront Stadium.
NORTON SHORES — The unmistakable sound of Dove- and Grammy Award-winning recording artist David Phelps will be featured at the Maranatha Bible & Missionary Conference on Saturday, Aug. 3.
The Tri-Cities Family YMCA was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from the JSJ Foundation Fund.
The food and music of Latin American cultures are coming to Grand Haven’s Central Park this fall.
Whenever a tragedy happens on the Great Lakes, it’s only natural for people to begin to wonder what precautions are in place to warn swimmers and boaters of dangerous water.
Oh, the drama! And the musicals!
The second in the Summer Sessions concert series at Lynne Sherwood Waterfront Stadium will take place Thursday, July 18.
A calm and sunny Thursday morning provided good conditions for installing lights on Grand Haven’s south pier catwalk.
Ryan Venhuizen rode in a single engine airplane for the first time as a 15-year-old at a Young Eagles event and now, 26 years later, he brought his kids for their first experience with the program.
“Home Again,” the new exhibit at the Atrium Art Gallery of Second Christian Reformed Church, features Mark Ottens, a Grand Haven native who now resides in Oostburg, Wisconsin.
Life doesn’t hand out many free rides, but this coming Saturday, the youth of Grand Haven will get the opportunity for a free plane ride at the Young Eagles event at the local airport.
Planes, flowers and beach pole vaulting are on tap for this weekend.
Riley and Chloe Warmoth, who moved to Los Angeles a few years ago, have returned to their hometown to create their feature-length film, “West Michigan: A Movie.”
Not all the fun was shot off with the July 4 fireworks. The weekend was just getting started.
A jeweler met a sculptor and they fell in love, blended their art and the rest is history.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Seven-year-old Molly Butler aimed down the sights and sent a metal BB hurling through a Dixie cup.
The Northwest Ottawa Recreation Authority’s programs are in full swing this summer amid a period of transition for the organization.
ROBINSON TWP. — Ludwig Vollmer used to tell his children that their farm and 40 acres of land would one day be a park.
Police are planning targeted traffic enforcement as people heading to the Electric Forest Festival travel through Ottawa County and Grand Haven over the next few days.
Art on the street and free music at the Waterfront Stadium. What a great summer weekend in Grand Haven!
Residents signed the guestbook and contributed business cards and other last minute items prior to the re-burial of the Fruitport time capsule on Saturday afternoon.
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