Former Grand Haven City Manager Pat McGinnis. McGinnis left the city in June to take a job working in Portage.
Tribune photo / Matt DeYoung
The first few years Pat McGinnis lived in Grand Haven, he refused to drive south of town to check out the district’s new high school.
“I heard it was pretty cool, but figured I probably won’t be here long enough to experience that,” he said with a chuckle.
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