Holton News

Oakridge eighth-grader Aliza Olsen, 13, receives her H1N1 vaccination at Oakridge Middle School Tuesday.

Henry Karel recalls making the short trek from his childhood home near Bayne Road in Cedar Creek Township to attend class at the Maple Island one-room schoolhouse.

Students at Muskegon High School would have to apply for college or other continuing education in order to graduate under a plan proposed by school administrators.

Cathy Hunsucker of Hesperia shops for food at the Christ the Rock World Harvest Church pantry.

McCormick Sand, Inc. took on the immense task of excavating and shoring a 28 feet deep pit, right along two sides of a building, in preparation of the casting-in-place a new elevator shaft.

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1. I-96- from Grand Haven Road to Exit 4 in Fruitport Township: Guardrail Repair.

Voters in Holton Township will consider a proposed 3-mill road tax in February that officials say would be used to prevent the pulverization of any more roads in the township.

U.S. 31 -- Mowing in Dalton, Fruitport, Montague and Whitehall townships. Holton Township -- Mowing along various roads in Holton Township Syers Road -- Culvert replacement west of Holton Duck Lake Road in Holton Township.

Holton's Kaylee Kiogima puts the ball over the net as Hesperia's Kristen Crickmore attempts to block during a match at Holton High School on Wednesday evening.

3. All Roads - in Cedar Creek, Holton and Laketon Townships: Mowing. 4. McMillan Road - from Whitehall to Scenic Drive in Dalton and Fruitland Townships: Dura Patching.

So this is what local government has come to: recycled wastewater pipe and a hat passed to collect donations.

Yoshua Fruh, 4, of Mount Pleasant plays under a water umbrella Tuesday afternoon at the grand opening of the Island Park Spray Park.

A long-standing Newaygo County business is destroyed following a fire early Friday morning.

A long-standing Newaygo County business is destroyed following a fire early Friday morning.

Tom Edman, Ingham County Fair Director: "It was kind of a shock. It happened very fast and we're paying the price accordingly." The Ingham County Fair suffers a deep cut.

A two car crash in Newaygo County sent a Holton woman to the hospital Sunday. State police say 21-year-old Christina Oliver was traveling south on Green Avenue when she ran a stop sign at 72nd Street in Sheridan Township.

Looking to stop putting patchwork Band-Aids on three rural roads, the Muskegon County Road Commission is considering crushing them back into gravel as a longer term cost-saving measure.

A judge has sentenced a Holton-area man to prison for intentionally starting an apartment complex fire that sent three people to the hospital last November.

Over the past seven years, 13,400 free backpacks filled with school supplies have been handed out to children in need.