Sparta News

Its vehicle of choice? A 1946 Ford flathead truck that's gearing up to become a genuine soda jerk and ice cream truck and local foodmobile.

Let's swing by the banks of the Old Red Cedar and look into how the Spartan's became, well, the Spartans.

Tony Comden, president of the West Michigan Miracle League, is pictured with two boys, Nate Hurwitz, 15, of Ada, and Aaron VanKampen, 10, of Sparta, who look forward to the handicapped accessible ballfield that will be part of the West Michigan Sports Commission complex on Ten Mile Road.

He physically was weak enought at one point that he could not take his usual seat right behind MSU basketball coach Tom Izzo as the Spartans scrambled to win the national championship.

And the Grandville intersection with the most traffic crashes over the past year isRivertown Parkway and Canal Avenue SW.

Promoters of the proposed Sparta Rodeo hope to hold at least one rodeo in Sparta this summer even if it is the end-of-the-summer championships slated for Labor Day weekend.

Dan VanLiere's attorney tried to make a case Friday that his client's involvement in an alleged $9 million Ponzi scheme was minimal - compared to his cohort, Jeffrey Ripley.