Holland News

Holland planners have approved a rezoning that would allow an industrial building along U.S. 31 at 32nd Street, the site of high-profile vacancies on the city's Southeast Side.

Gas prices continue staying steady week-over-week along the Lakeshore, going up three pennies in this morning's survey of Holland area stations to a mean of $3.88; it is a nickel more per gallon on average to fuel up now that it was at the beginning of the month.

According to Ottawa County Central Dispatch, the driver of the car pulled in front of the ambulance.

The Holland BPW, along with Consumers Energy wants to help you clean house. On Saturday, you can take old energy draining appliances to BPW's parking lot on Hastings Avenue off of 24 Street.

There are many things to do in the Holland area on Saturday. You can start off with the Farmer's Market on 8 St.

Calvin College has announced the 2013 recipients of its highest honors for men's and women's athletics: the Bere Memorial Award and the Kay Tiemersma Athletic Award.

Hope College plans to join the ranks of colleges and universities with an art museum of its own.

Karen Fanning is framed by weathered glass of the lens cupola at the top of Holland's "Big Red" lighthouse.

Kylee Panse, a senior at West Ottawa High School, will have her triptych illustration, titled "Vanity," on display for a year at the U.S. Capitol.

There were no reported last-minute additions to the municipal office races in the cities of Holland and Zeeland as yesterday's 4 PM statewide filing deadline passed.

Public health sanitarian Regina Young wasn't sure what her staff would encounter when the Barry-Eaton District Health Department clamped down on failed septic systems in 2007.

About 13,000 students from Ottawa and Allegan counties are about to find out what area companies do and the skills needed to work there.

Jurors will begin to hear testimony today in the case of a Holland Township landlord fatally burned in a fire that was allegedly set by one of her tenants.

It's full steam ahead just three days after the largest acquisition in its history, ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a leading national vehicle repair company and one of the country's fastest growing multi-shop repair operators, opened yet another new repair center in Michigan - its second since entering the state just nine months ago.

An 18-year-old Holland area woman was jailed overnight, awaiting arraignment on driving without a license charge, after she apparently caused an accident that hospitalized a 57-year-old Zeeland Township motorcyclist.

At 12:43 p.m. Monday, the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office responded to an accident with injuries on Lake Michigan Drive at 92nd Avenue in Allendale Township.

The new restrictions will take effect Memorial Day weekend, said Nicki Arendshorst, a member of the Holland Historic Lighthouse Commission and a security trustee for Macatawa Park Cottagers' Association.

Montello Meat Market, an old-world butchery based in Holland, announced Monday, May 13, it will relocate its primary production operations to the indoor Market Hall at the Downtown Market, 835 Ionia Ave.

It was at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday that a single-engine plane coming from Winchester hit and skid across the runway after having an apparent landing gear problem.

Hope College has lost a Professor Emeritus. Dr. James Zoetewey passed away at his home in Holland on Saturday.