Oceana County News

Roger James Boucher, 39, of Rothbury, 11 months Oceana County Jail, two years probation for third-offense driving while intoxicated, $750 fines/fees/costs, sentence to be served in court's discretion, six months forthwith.

A A I'll leave radar up here.A The severe weather outlook areas are below.A I'm headed to Chicago to see my mother for Sunday PM into Monday - back later Monday evening.A They'll be some smart people commenting, so look through for some additional and timely weather information.A A A Temperatures will soar to the low 90s possible inland for Sun.

Two of five defendants in the in the March 8 robbery of an elderly Oceana County couple have gone to prison.

A fire in a mobile home in the Silver Lake area has killed a man from the Saginaw area.

The Muskegon Chronicle reports the person was visiting a home that burned Friday morning in Oceana County's Golden Township.

Council approved a request by the Pentwater VFW to have its annual poppy sale May 26 from 8 a.m. to noon.

Orson Matthews Hager, a 31-year-old Ferrysburg man charged in Oceana County with a strange cottage break-in spree, pleaded no contest Tuesday to two Muskegon County car thefts.

Several fires in the Muskegon area have destroyed homes and parkland in the past week.

FFA students tend to their trout pond in Feb. 2010. The MAPS board is deciding the future of the FFA program.

An Oceana County man is lucky to have survived a fire Sunday that destroyed his home after he fell asleep with something on the stove, and didn't have working smoke detectors to alert him to the blaze, officials said.

Lamont Alan Clark , 32, of Muskegon Heights, one to 10 years Michigan Department of Corrections for breaking/entering with intent, concurrent with current MDOC sentence, $198 fees/costs. Nicholas Lynn Martin, 24, of Knoxville, Tenn., six months Oceana County Jail for controlled substance possession non-narcotic, to be served in court's discretion, ... (more)

Lots of sun and temperatures in the 70s and 80s is expected for the rest of the week in Muskegon and Oceana counties.

Ten students from Oceana County recently completed their first year of The Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology , and 10 new students from the area have been selected to participate in the coveted program.

The preschool offers a four-day per week class for children who will be 4-years-old. Pentwater Preschool is a non-profit co-op, which serves all of Oceana County and parts of Mason County.

For recharging the batteries of the local Farm Bureau organization's membership committee, Shelby-area farmer Josh S. Fleming has been named Michigan Farm Bureau's Volunteer of the Month for April 2012.

THE WEST COAST OF MICHIGAN -- The Michigan Department of Health says South West Michigan and the lake shore all the way up to Oceana County is the hot zone for Lyme Disease in the state.

And peaches? Forget about it. Hardly any peach trees in Oceana orchards survived the bizarre spring weather this year, according to farmers in the area.

A county in western Michigan has agreed to pay $99,000 to settle a lawsuit over the death of a woman who was fatally shot by her estranged husband.

The following Oceana County students received academic honors at Ferris State University for the semester ending December 2011.

Oceana County answered the call from State Farm for Causes that would make a difference in their communities, and now Hart High School matched with local non-profit TrueNorth Community Services is in the running for a $25,000 grant that would teach kids math, sciences, business and carpentry through building, maintaining and working in their own ... (more)