Newaygo News

Chad Betts hoists a huge brown trout taken on the Muskegon River, which has developed a major tailwater fishery below Croton Dam.

Ludington pitchers, junior Blake Collins and senior Tyler Morin, combined to check Newaygo on four hits Tuesday as the Orioles won the first game, 7-2, of a Lakes 8 Activities Conference doubleheader with the Lions.

John Paul Toms, aka 'Hawk,' 60, passed away on November 9, 2011, at his home in Branch.

Muskegon County's two freshman members of the Michigan House of Representatives will face primary competition in August and, if successful, would face a challenger from the opposing party.

Newaygo County, a watery area largely in the thick of the Manistee National Forest on the western edge of the Great Lakes State, believes it lives up to the official travel and tourism slogan "Pure Michigan.'' Newaygo County is in the western part of Michigan's lower peninsula.

The local premiere of "Waterwalk" was held Thursday night at Celebration Cinema North on East Beltline Ave.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northeastern Ottawa, southern Newaygo and northern Kent Counties until 6:15 p.m. today.