Jenison News

It's difficult to peer into the looking glass and tell what the year of music will bring.

Editor's note: A jail sentence 'to be served at the court's discretion' generally means jail time is suspended, but will be imposed if the person violates any laws or sentencing conditions within a noted time period.

Carole Scholten, front center, with her daughters and granddaughters have been baking Christmas cookies together for 25 years.

A 54-year-old Jenison man is jailed this morning after he allegedly fled police and fought with an Ottawa County sheriff's deputy until he was subdued by a Taser and pepper spray.

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

Hudsonville business leaders are teaming with peers from the Grandville-Jenison Chamber of Commerce to host U.S. Rep.

A local couple went to extraordinary lengths to have a baby. They couldn't conceive so they found a sperm donor, egg donor and a surrogate mother.

Jenison High School senior Jenna Werkman is excited for Christmas morning when children open the presents she and 75 other 11th- and 12th-graders in the National Honor Society worked to get.

The Ottawa County Community Action Agency is moving the Jenison site of its low-income and senior citizen food distribution center Tuesday to the Center for Childhood Development, 7086 Eighth Ave.

Nine teachers are on notice to be laid off Jan. 22, although Godwin Heights Public Schools will retract two of the pink slips to sustain an evening adult education program.

Getting students to school this morning probably wouldn't have been too difficult -- but getting them back home safely could be a challenge, based on forecasts of a blizzard.

The district raised $9,202 through its Change Can Change Hunger coin drive this fall.

Bill DeVries, left, and Janet Dalman will participate in Parkwood Presbyterian Church's cookie walk.

Zac Fredrick said watching his doctors act like Neanderthals at the Grand Rapids Public Museum was a great way to start the holidays.

A western Michigan couple say their coffee business is working to help Central American farmers earn a better living as it satisfies their customers' caffeine urge.

The Jenison Historical Association's annual Christmas open house is scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Tiffany House Museum and Hiram Jenison House.

Out of the 74 state highway bridges in Ottawa County, there are seven that are considered functionally obsolete and one that is structurally deficient, according to the latest report from the Michigan Department of Transportation.

"We do this every year, it's our tradition" commented Lori Dykstra as her family, from left, Jayden, 6, Zoe, 5, Mya, 1 1/2, Jim, Jackson, 3, and Ethen, 8, cut down their own Christmas tree Saturday morning at Bosch Countryview Nursery in Allendale.

Rallying to restore funding to the Michigan Promise scholarships, Gov. Jennifer Granholm told Grand Valley State University students that lawmakers work for them -- and they can be fired for not doing what the boss says.

A proposed merger that would create the fourth-largest credit union in Michigan follows a steady consolidation trend among institutions.