Coopersville News

Coopersville's clerk will leave her position to become Plainfield's deputy clerk.

A research paper by a district music teacher has been accepted in the first international music education conference to be held in the Middle East.

Crockery Township Fire Chief Gary Dreyer got an early Christmas gift in December when he learned of a major improvement in the fire department's insurance rating.

Two Board of Education seats will be up for election on the May 4 ballot. Tim Postma and Dick Holman hold the seats, and neither has announced a run for re-election yet.

When elementary students return to classes Monday, it will be like the first day of school again, with assemblies explaining playgrounds, lockers, lunch lines and room locations.

Icy roads slicked by rain led Pastor C. J. den Dulk to rethink his plan for the big Christmas Day service at his church.

Two competitors in the corrugated cardboard industry are joining forces to form a bigger, better company, officials said.

Comstock Park: Dec. 13: Austin Matthew to Kristy Moroski and Timothy Muller Jr.; Dec.

Santa, disguised as a group of Grand Haven High School students, brought Christmas to one Coopersville family a week early this year.

This year's Walk For Warmth poster contest will be a competition among three Ottawa County high schools: Jenison, Holland and Coopersville.

Residents who use a mercury thermometer to check flu symptoms are encouraged by the Ottawa County Health Department to replace it with a new and safer digital version.

Superintendent Kevin O'Neill won the Superintendent of the Year Award for Region 3 of the Michigan Association of School Administrators.

As snow piled up outside their windows this week, many area parents turned to their phones for texts, talk and even tweets to learn if students needed to get ready for school.

Since spring, West Michigan public schools have cut or drawn from savings $104 million, a Press analysis of 34 districts shows.

Due to weather conditions, the Ottawa County Health Department has canceled its H1N1 vaccine clinic for high risk groups scheduled for 4 to 8 p.m. today at Hudsonville High School.

Farming these days is a lot more than milking cows or plowing fields. Like any business, it means keeping ahead of a changing industry.

There's a new electronics retail and service store in downtown Grand Haven. Greg Slater has opened up a local branch of CCS Technologies in the building he recently purchased at 206 Washington.

Village and Township officials Friday morning announced an early Christmas gift from the state - more than $800,000 in grant money from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund.

The city will hold its traditional joint meeting of governing groups at 6 p.m. Dec.

Santa will make his debut Friday at the new Coopersville Middle School, after the 29th annual Nighttime Christmas Parade.