News

The Montcalm County Community Advancement Committee prepared to accept a second round of grant applications for local ...
The Ionia Free Fair kicked off Thursday evening with the debut of a new entertainment venue and the crowning of a new queen.
They say that money is the mother's milk of politics, but money is also the root of all evil, so sometimes that milk turns sour.
When two of my girls were in college, they sold fireworks at a stand for a local friend.  We knew nothing about fireworks — except as spectators, of course. Who doesn’t know about fireworks from the ...
As the Michigan State Board of Education selects our state’s next superintendent of public instruction, we find ourselves at a pivotal crossroads. With more than 1.4 million students across more than ...
I moved along the garden row, pulling weeds as I did so. I noticed one marigold plant in the row along the edge of the garden that was not aligned with the others. Every time I saw it, it bugged me, ...
The Winfield Township Board appointed a new trustee to the board, the lone candidate for the vacant position. Ken Ek was appointed in a 4-0 vote by the board at Thursday evening’s meeting. Ek succeeds ...
Presentations involving live animals are always the most popular part of the Summer Reading Program hosted by the Timothy C.
A Chinese national charged with delivering or manufacturing a large amount of marijuana plants locally was bound over from one Montcalm County court to another as plea negotiations continue. Liu Weida ...
Dec. 21 has the shortest amount of daylight for the entire year.
Even though neither of the involved parties were present, an explosive noise dispute between two neighbors on Grahams Lookout returned for discussion during public comment at Tuesday's Ionia Township ...
A court hearing was adjourned until August involving a Greenville man who is charged with using his vehicle to try to murder another man after an argument at a downtown bar. Christopher Lee Worthing, ...