Macatawa News

Karen Fanning is framed by weathered glass of the lens cupola at the top of Holland's "Big Red" lighthouse.

The new restrictions will take effect Memorial Day weekend, said Nicki Arendshorst, a member of the Holland Historic Lighthouse Commission and a security trustee for Macatawa Park Cottagers' Association.

Macatawa Bank Corp. has gone from being a "fortress" aimed at survival to a profitable business that's focused on growth, Board Chairman Richard Postma told the bank holding company's annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday, May 7. While Macatawa Bank's balance sheet is strong once again after a cataclysmic period of loan losses, Postma told ... (more)

A $40,000 project to shore up the streambank along Noordeloos Creek at the city of Zeeland's Paw Paw Bridge Park could get underway later this summer.

From dramatic rescues to blazing beach fires, deputies from across Michigan are on the lakeshore to learn how to patrol Michigan's waterways.

The bank holding company posted profits of $2.5 million, or 9 cents a share, down from last year's first quarter profit of $4.5 million or 17 cents per share.

City officials in Holland are considering a proposal to hire an engineering firm with a deep background in municipal marinas and waterfront multi-use developments to review proposals to redevelop the former Western Machine Tool Works property on Lake Macatawa.

Weather and wet ground conditions are preventing a contractor from conducting a prescribed burn in the Macatawa Marsh near Windmill Island scheduled for today.

The Holland Department of Public Safety would like to advise motorists and residents in the Holland area, that a prescribed burn will be taking place tomorrow, April 24, 2013 in the Macatawa Marsh.