Fountain News

A roller derby of a different kind will soon take over downtown Montague, and it's all about pumpkins.

Posted: 10-5-2009 Let 'em roll: Pumpkinfest is Saturday The Dowling St. hill is repaved and about to be put through the road's first real test - hundreds of pumpkins will be propelled down the hill during the annual Pumpkinfest.

Mayors from across Michigan are coming to Grand Haven Aug. 5-7 for the annual Michigan Association of Mayors conference.

A patriotic parade made its way down Pine Street in Ferrysburg and fireworks lit up the sky in Grand Haven with an array of colors during Saturday's Fourth of July festivities.

Fireworks and a parade will highlight Fourth of July activities in the Tri-Cities on Saturday.

Crews pulled the final section of culvert that survived the storm of June 12-13, 2008, from a creek crossing on Lincoln Road north of Dewey Monday, thus starting repairs on a washout that has caused people north of the creek to find alternative routes to their homes for more than a year.

Firefighters from Fountain and Free Soil were called to a structure fire on North Custer Road about 4:40 p.m. Thursday.

'Forever Plaid,' the 1950s musical that salutes the great four-part harmony groups like the Four Aces, the Ames Brothers, and The Lettermen, opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the West Shore Community College Center Stage Theater.

A 9-year-old boy sat with eyes red from crying as firefighters from Fountain and Free Soil finished extinguishing the fire he started at his grandmother's home at 6610 N. Custer Road.

Recent rains likely helped contain a barn fire this morning in the 4300 block of North Reek Road.

A former Mason County man is presumed drowned in a Wisconsin lake as searchers continue to look for him six days after he disappeared.

Deputies from the Mason County Sheriff's Office were called to a break-in in progress on Wever Road in Walhalla Friday afternoon and apprehended a suspect a short while later.

Diane Nelson was cleaning her carpets when she happened to notice the fire in her neighbor's burn barrel had gotten out of control.