Hudsonville News

To promote local businesses, Hudsonville Area Chamber of Commerce this week started a "Seek & Win" scavenger hunt.

The village has filed a lawsuit against the county election commissioners in an effort to disarm an effort aimed at disincorporating the village.

James Soles, of Hudsonville, looks at art at the opening night of the Festival of the Arts Regional Arts Exhibition at The Grand Rapids Press building, 155 Michigan Street, Friday, May 25, in Grand Rapids.

When clients of local charter fishing boats are finished with their trip, they typically watch the captains clean their catch, then take the fillets home.

Dear Amy: My daughter gets extremely angry at me -- so angry that she will hang up in the middle of... Members of the 1-126th Cavalry Unit of the Michigan National Guard pose for a photo taken before the attack on a National Guard convoy Sunday that wounded 10 soldiers.

Have you heard the one about the two machinists and a tire center manager who started a winery and only to be constantly asked when they would start brewing beer? It's also a reality now for Steve Guikema, Ron Snider and Ken Groenink, co-owners of Hudsonville Winery, which added an on-site brewpub this year that is holding a grand ... (more)

HUDSONVILLE, Mich. - The May recipient of WZZM 13's My Favorite Teacher award is Heidee Windeler.

As any gardener knows, it's hard growing plants from seed and transplanting them to the flower bed.

The rope-a-dope is a term usually associated with boxing, but Berlin Raceway Super Late Model driver Terry VanHaitsma showed Saturday night that it can be equally effective in stock car racing.

Kent County Sheriff's Office says they've arrested and charged a 30 year old man, suspected of sexual misconduct with a minor.

A 30-year-old Hudsonville man accused in 2010 of having a sexual "foot fetish" with boys is in trouble again for similar acts, police said.

BLENDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- If you drive through the intersection of Port Sheldon Street and 48th Avenue near Hudsonville and smell bad hot dogs, there is a reason -- a meat spill.

The congregation at the HomeFront Church in Jenison has spent the last month gathering donations for a silent auction this Saturday to benefit a local family with a special needs child.

Four incumbent commissioners, with more than 50 years combined experience on the board, did not file petitions to run for re-election by Tuesday afternoon's deadline.

But when Jacqueline started noticing more than just "selective hearing" issues with her husband, she urged him to get a hearing test.

After city voters by a wide margin this week rejected a proposed public-transit tax , a millage supporter posted some frustration to Hudsonville's Facebook page .

Take a few paragraphs from Mayor Don Van Doeselaar's article in the city's spring newsletter about a public-transit millage proposal that was on the ballot this week, and compare them with part of a letter to the editor written by the chairman of a "Hudsonville Friends of Transit" group that lobbied for the tax: They match verbatim.

The CRA Super Series is expecting a short-track slugfest between Johnny Van Doorn of Coopersville and Brian Campbell of Wyoming.

Gary Raterink had hoped Hudsonville voters would see opportunity in a tax vote this week that would have brought The Rapid bus system to town, but now he wonders if "big city politics" in a small town killed those dreams.

A complaint has been filed with the state judicial oversight commission by Chief Ottawa County District Court Judge Bradley Knoll against Hudsonville District Court Judge Kenneth Post.