Sparta News

A home near Camp Lake northeast of Sparta has reportedly been destroyed by an overnight fire that crews battled late into Sunday morning.

Some 300 acres on four more farms could be preserved under Kent County's Purchase of Development Rights program if the full county board later this month accepts the recommendation of a county panel.

SPARTA, Mich. - Hundreds of people in northern Kent County missed the final minutes of Super Bowl LXVI because of a power outage Sunday night.

A long-standing eyesore in Sparta could be replaced by a new factory employing 120 workers under a deal set in motion Thursday when the Kent County Land Bank was granted ownership of the old Sparta Foundry.

That's why Perez and Brenda Burrington, her boss at the Sparta branch of the Secretary of State's office, collected more than 2.4 tons of food donations last year - nearly 40 percent of all the food raised statewide by the Secretary of State's Michigan Harvest Gathering program.

Grand Rapids, Comstock Park, Cedar Springs and Sparta have canceled all afternoon and evening activities due to deteriorating road conditions .

SPARTA, Mich. -- Sparta administrators say they will check to make sure the heating system in one of their schools is working properly before classes resume Tuesday morning.