Otsego News

A sophomore at Otsego High School used her grandfather's military service to inspire an audio essay that placed fourth in the state in this year's Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Competition.

More than a year ago, Dan and Hillary Baker, of Otsego, had a conversation with friends, as the brewed beer in their kitchen, about opening their own brewery.

Firefighters from Otsego and from Alamo and Cooper townships responded to a house fire Sunday night at around 8 p.m. in Otsego.

Allegan, ranked No. 4 in Division 2, won six individual championships and had 10 wrestlers in the finals as it amassed 236 points to easily outdistance runner-up Otsego, which had four individual champions and 207.5 points.

It isn't apparent in the starting pay, which ranges from $32,069 at Climax-Scotts to $36,389 at Otsego, a 13.5 percent difference.

Kalamazoo Valley Habitat for Humanity is inviting the public to join it at Bell's Brewery for beer and appetizers as part of its first ever Habi Hour.

MINORITY EMPLOYEES: While the percentages of minority and women employees will remain relatively unchanged after 219 employees leave the city of Kalamazoo over the next two years through the Early Retirement Incentive program, city officials said they will work to make sure minorities have the opportunity to apply for vacant positions.

To the Otsego teenagers involved, "sexting" a picture of female classmate was a game, a joke, a goof.

As workers collect and classify hazardous waste at the former RockTenn paper mill here, workers down the road in Plainwell are buffing the floors in new offices created at that city's old paper mill site.

The money is in place, the contracts are signed and demolition is under way for a new Allegan County Jail.

School leaders found out the kids were sending explicit pictures on their phones.

When workers finish removing the 200 barrels and tubs of hazardous waste from the former RockTenn paper mill site of Helen Avenue over the next few weeks, what will be left is a beautiful site "in a beatuful location, right on the Kalamazoo River, close to downtown," said Kevin Ricco, director of county development for Allegan County.

Pillars of light like these from 2009 in Michigan shown on the National Weather Service's web site were seen in Otsego and Plainwell last night.

The search is on for the driver of a dark truck or SUV that reportedly fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident that injured an unnamed 27-year-old pedestrian near Otsego last night.

PLAINWELL, Mich. A teenager has been charged after crashing his pick-up into Dean's Ice Cream in Plainwell.