Otsego News

The eighth annual Harry's Fun Fest will take place Saturday at Bittersweet Ski Resort in Otsego, with its traditional day of food, entertainment and midway fun, all in honor of 12-year-old Harry Stout, a boy from Plainwell who died unexpectedly in 2004 when he passed out and never regained consciousness.

A truck passes a piece of farm equipment on Ravine Road near Otsego; several other cars backed up behind it with no safe opportunities to go around.

The Memorial Day parade, which traditionally begins at Memorial Park, ended in the park where hundreds gathered for the dedication ceremony for the new Veterans Monument, an addition to the park that took two and a half years of planning.

Memorial Day Parades followed by graveside ceremonies are planned in many West Michigan Communities this morning.In two communities...Bangor at 8:30 and Otsego at 9, they plan to begin with ceremonies in local cemeteries followed by parades.

Garrett McCormick, 12, left, Craig, his father, and Karen, his mother, stand together as the crowd observes a moment of silence for Patrick McCormick.

No arrests have been made but two young children were removed from a home on Wilmott Street in Otsego after Michigan State Police troopers stopped at the home Thursday night to talk to the people living there.

Otsego was able to hold off Vicksburg to claim the 2012 league championship. The Bulldogs, who finished second in the conference tournament, edged Vicksburg 26-25 to take the title.

A The Dowagiac track team finished fifth at the Wolverine Conference Track & Field Championships in both boys and girls Tuesday.

An Otsego Middle School counselor was found unresponsive Thursday by police and firefighters after he suffered a medical issue and crashed his car into a North Farmer Street gym where he had been working out, police said.

Sharon Hule of Otsego, a regular volunteer at the Allegan County Animal Shelter, cleans the puppy room at the facility.

The reconstruction of a ramp from southbound US-131 to M-89 will require the ramp to be closed this month.