Name: Geri McCaleb

Name: Dale Reenders

Name: Andy Cawthon

Name: Mike Westbrook

Over the past week, we've run answers to our questionnaires from the five candidates running for Grand Haven City Council, and we're in the process of running responses for those running for a spot on the Board of Light & Power Board of Directors.

Editor’s note: The Tribune has distributed questionnaires to each of the five people running for spots on Grand Haven’s City Council. Over the next two weeks, we will run their responses, as they were submitted, to help you decide who to vote for in the Aug. 3 primary.

Editor’s note: The Tribune has distributed questionnaires to each of the five people running for spots on Grand Haven’s City Council. Over the next two weeks, we will run their responses, as they were submitted, to help you decide who to vote for in the Aug. 3 primary.

The five candidates running for two open seats on Grand Haven’s City Council participated in an election forum Thursday night at the Grand Haven Community Center.

Candidates for the Board of Light & Power (BLP) participated in an election forum Thursday night to answer some charged questions prior to the Aug. 3 primary.

Name: Andrea Hendrick

Editor’s note: Tim Deiters’ response to our questionnaire first ran on July 6. Those answers were sent to the Tribune erroneously and do not accurately reflect Deiters’ viewpoints on the questions. His updated responses are listed below.

Editor’s note: The Tribune has distributed questionnaires to each of the five people running for spots on Grand Haven’s City Council. Over the next two weeks, we will run their responses, as they were submitted, to help you decide who to vote for in Aug. 3 primary.

Editor’s note: The Tribune has distributed questionnaires to each of the five people running for spots on Grand Haven’s City Council. Over the next two weeks, we will run their responses, as they were submitted, to help you decide who to vote for in Aug. 3 primary.

The League of Women Voters of the Grand Haven Area, along with the Chamber of Commerce Grand Haven-Spring Lake-Ferrysburg, will host a candidates forum next month for the Grand Haven Board of Light & Power (BLP) and Grand Haven City Council primary elections.

Rebecca Hopp, the current mayor of the city of Ferrysburg, announced Tuesday that she plans to run for state representative in 2022.

Grand Haven Township voters overwhelmingly approved a trio of millages and bond proposals on Tuesday.

Debbie Wierenga smiled as she looked over the last election setup she would see as a Ferrysburg employee.

Ferrysburg voters approved a motorized equipment millage proposal on Tuesday, 387-178.

Grand Haven Township voters overwhelmingly approved a trio of millage renewal and bond proposals during Tuesday’s special election.

Here are the results from Tuesday's elections (note that all results are unofficial):

Elections are being held today (Tuesday, May 4), which will affect several local school districts and municipalities.

Voters in the city of Grand Haven will have plenty of choices to make later this year.

Grand Haven Township has grown exponentially since 1990, but its parks system has not kept pace, township officials say.

WEST OLIVE — Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck said the week-long audit of the November 2020 election has affirmed local election results throughout the county.

Ferrysburg voters will have some big financial decisions to make next month.

The city of Grand Haven will elect a new mayor, two new City Council members and two new Board of Light & Power trustees this November.

Terra Muncy has been voting for nearly four decades, but never like she did in last year’s presidential primary: sitting on her front porch, tablet in hand, tapping through the candidates on her screen.

WASHINGTON — More than two-thirds of all eligible Americans, almost 160 million people, voted in the November elections. It was the highest turnout in 120 years, according to the United States Elections Project.

U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, said he isn’t happy with the outcome of the 2020 election, but the congressman accepts the results.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden pointedly criticized President Donald Trump for threatening core principles of democracy even as he told Americans that their form of self-government ultimately “prevailed.”

LANSING (AP) — A retiring Michigan congressman said Monday he is leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent to protest efforts to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.

GRANDVILLE — Protesters gathered outside the Grandville office of U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, on Sunday to call for his resignation after the congressman supported a controversial legal challenge to the results of the presidential election.

LANSING — State House and Senate office buildings will all be closed Monday, Dec. 14, during the meeting of the Electoral College due to security concerns, an official said Sunday.

LANSING (AP) — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state, another setback for President Donald Trump in his effort to undermine the results of the Nov. 3 election through baseless legal challenges and unsupported claims of fraud.

LANSING — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state amid President Donald Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election.

DETROIT — In an abrupt about-face, Michigan’s largest county on Tuesday night unanimously certified election results showing Democrat Joe Biden defeating President Donald Trump, hours after Republicans first blocked formal approval of voters’ intentions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by the historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.

Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck said it was “an amazing day on Tuesday” while counting the record-high number of ballots through the night and into the early hours of Wednesday.

Although election officials were still counting write-in votes for the Grand Haven school board race as of Thursday evening, Ottawa County officials said there were not enough write-in votes to top any of the three candidates that were on the ballot.

LANSING — More than 5.5 million people voted in Michigan's presidential election — the most ever and the highest percentage of voting-age residents to cast a ballot in 60 years.

The polls are closed, the ballots are in and the counting is done in Michigan.

LANSING — Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters won re-election Wednesday, defeating Republican challenger John James in a tight, expensive race that was the state’s most competitive in two decades.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump's path.

The makeup of the Grand Haven school board remained up in the air, as of Wednesday evening.

LANSING — Democrat Joe Biden has carried Michigan and its 16 electoral votes, further dismantling Donald Trump's Rust Belt wall of support that helped deliver him the presidency four years ago.