Whitehall News

Posted: 2-8-2010 Montague joins districts approving CTC credits Montague High School students attending the Career Tech Center in Muskegon are now getting more flexibility in the way they can attain credits for graduation.

It's been a long trail for my wife and me over the past 43 years we have been married.

Seeing a renewed interest in knitting and in social clubs, long-time knitter Lynn Whalen of Whitehall thought the time was right to combine the two trends and start a social knitting club.

Posted: 2-1-2010 Businesses react to ROTHBURY cancellation John Dillivan , of Pekadill's Restaurant and Catering served food at the ROTHBURY festival with employees Sandra Malone and Zac Anderson .

A fire that extensively damaged a vacant Muskegon home early Saturday has been labeled "suspicious," according to a fire investigator.

Sam Naccache, owner of Sam's Bistro in Whitehall, hugs his granddaughter Selena Cisneros, 6, who came in the restaurant to eat pizza with her family.

Not too old to help, 82-year-old Bill O'Leary has adopted an animal shelter dog and has taken in a foster dog.

Posted: 1-25-2010 Whitehall's all-school play this weekend is 'The Wizard of Oz' Dorothy , second from left, rehearses with from left, the Scarecrow , the Tin Woodsman , Cowardly Lion .

A town hall-style meeting is scheduled Monday to discuss a controversial Michigan Secretary of State proposal to close its Muskegon and Whitehall Township offices and open a new office in a yet-to-be-determined location.

Janet L. Vincent, , age 66, of Montague, died Thursday, January 21, 2010, in Florida.

Wayne Davis, of Laketon Township, the man charged with holding up a bank, then apparently changing his mind, has a felony history dating from the 1960s.

A sheriff's deputy car is parked outside National City Bank, at the corner of Whitehall and Giles, in Laketon Township, after an attempted robbery about 3:40 pm Tuesday.

A Sheriff's Deputy car is parked outside National City Bank, at the corner of Whitehall and Giles, in Laketon Township, after an attempted robbery about 3:40 pm Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

After a proposed $22 million bond extension failed by a wide margin last May, Whitehall school officials have regrouped and scaled back the project to address what they say are "bare essentials." The district plans to take its revised $11.6 million proposal to the Michigan Department of Treasury this month for review and then put it before voters ...

Robert James Ludlow, a former Alcoa Howmet Corp. employee, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing property from the manufacturing company and trying to sell it on Craigslist.

Editor's note: A jail sentence 'to be served at the court's discretion' generally means jail time is suspended, but will be imposed if the person violates any laws or sentencing conditions within a noted time period.

Whitehall Police Officers are not evangelizing, but they want to know if anyone has found the baby Jesus figure, which was removed from a nativity scene displayed at the White Lake Area Chamber of Commerce office, 124 Hanson Street.

David Walks-As-Bear, syndicated columnist and writer, who has had a version of his Ely Stone novels appear in ABC's ELI STONE TV series, will chat about his new book, "Shamus Ghillie U.S. Secret Service in MEDICINE HAT," a historical fiction thriller.

Guidelines for putting wind turbines and other renewable energy devices on properties within the city are nearing final approval.

Nearly 900 area residents have included their names in an online "petition" opposing the controversial plan to close the two current Secretary of State offices in Muskegon County and open a new office in a noncentralized location.