Jenison News

COUNTY: Ottawa HIGHWAY: M-121 just east of Main Street. CLOSEST CITIES: Jenison and Grandville START DATE: Monday, June 4, 2012 ESTIMATED END DATE: Monday, Aug.

Good Wednesday morning! Today we have an outrageous story of a University of Michigan football recruit receiving death threats from fans of another school.

Two "suburban vandals" have been arrested for an apparent string of graffiti crime that has angered Grand Rapids neighborhood leaders.

Richard Grenell, the 1984 Jenison High School graduate who signed on to and then off from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign within two weeks , said extreme Democrats led to his short-term role as Romney's national security and foreign policy spokesman.

Mayor George Heartwell, who was chided by MLive readers for calling Planned Parenthood opponents "forces of darkness" earlier this month, delivered the commencement address last Sunday at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Rumors of a campground being planned near the Grand Lady Riverboat's new dock are accurate, but also premature, an owner of the boat said.

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.

About a month ago, Ava Hill, a third-grader at Bursley Elementary School in Jenison, wrote a letter to the Grand Rapids Press' Public Pulse.

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.

A new 135,000 square-foot retail Target store is set to open Oct. 14 in Grandville as part of 41-acre development at the former X-Rite Inc.

Georgetown Township residents who complained about the abandoned K-Mart building on Chicago Drive in Jenison may be happy to hear the township has been negotiating to purchase the property.

Grand Haven's varsity golf team defeated Jenison, but fell to Grandville by two strokes on Monday at Grand Haven Golf Club.

A Wyoming father of two who was living with relatives because he couldn't afford both his rent and child support now has a small jackpot to buy a home.

HOLLAND, Mich. - Visitors are coming from all around the country to see Tulip Time.

Kathy Reichert rolled her car windows down, stuck her feet out, and enjoyed some time to herself at John Ball Park in Grand Rapids Wednesday, May 2, 2012.

Jenison High School freshmen Keaton Spielmaker eagerly donned his waders and boots, entered the Grand River and released two cups of the Chinook salmon he and his biology classmates raised from eggs.