Belding News

The Calhoun County Fairgrounds are often where animals go to be judged, but Saturday's participants might be a little more pampered than the average fair pig.

At 5:50 p.m. Friday, both the Greenville Department of Public Safety and emergency workers from nearby Belding in Ionia County responded to a report of a HAZMAT situation at the nursing home, located on Greenville's eastern edge at 828 E. Washington St., which is also M-57 and the main east-west route through the city.

The Kent County Sheriff's Department believes an armed robbery at Bailey's General Store, 6051 Belding Rd. NE, was staged by the clerk and an acquaintance.

A longtime Belding police officer who was fired last October after an off-duty fight in a Kent County bar parking lot was reinstated Monday.

I almost lost my Texas cool this past week when reading a Fox News report about an 89-year-old wounded World War II veteran who had to wait 68 years from the time he was on the battlefield until he received benefits.