Whitehall News

The mysterious murder of Rebekah "Becky" Bletsch on June 29, apparently while she was jogging on rural Automobile Road in Dalton Township near her home, has affected many people in the Muskegon area -- and not only those who knew her.

The 23rd Annual Celebrate White Lake Day will take place at various locations throughout the White Lake Area on Saturday, July 12. Free tours on a trolley bus and the W.G. Jackson, Grand Valley State University's research vessel, are being held as part of the event.

Three free tours of White Lake aboard the W.G. Jackson research vessel will be provided Saturday, July 12, by the White Lake Public Advisory Council during Celebrate White Lake at Goodrich Park in Whitehall.

There is a juried art show in Hackley Park with a $1,000 prize for best in show for fine art and fine crafts.

Two marijuana plants growing near a Whitehall intersection have been destroyed by police officers after the Whitehall Police Department received a tip.

A private dune property north of Meinert Park will be the setting for the second walk of the 2014 White Lake Area Guided Nature Walks program.

Pentwater...Americana...hometown...when it's time to slow down and enjoy life - where shop owners are the same people who wait on you and care.

July 10 through Aug. 23, various acting troupes will be performing at the playhouse, located on 304 S. Mears Ave., for the eighth annual Summer Fine Arts Festival.

Two Muskegon County women who pleaded guilty in separate embezzlement cases were sentenced Monday, June 23, after paying back what they stole.

The price of regular, unleaded fuel in Muskegon and the greater West Michigan region fell by 20 cents since last Monday, according to AAA.

The mid-morning lake water off Ludington was choppy last October as Petty Officer Kegan Thompson and three others in his Coast Guard rescue boat sped toward a disabled vessel on Lake Michigan.

Through an intuitive ability to hear an instrument and play it, Milne knew how to play the piano before he even touched it.

KT Maviglia waives to the crowd after being crowned the 2014 Miss Michigan during the final night of the Miss Michigan competition on June 14, 2014.

Mason County Sheriff's Office officials have identified the man killed Friday, June 13, in a logging accident as Whitehall's John L. Short.

Miss Michigan 2014: Miss Southwest, Miss Pride of the Peninsulas win Friday night preliminary awards: The 34 contestants vying to become the next Miss Michigan got one step closer Friday night, June 13, as preliminaries wrapped up in front of a large crowd at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in Muskegon.

James Bolger, of Whitehall in Muskegon County, is a former state police leader, a criminal justice instructor at Grand Valley State University and alumnus of WMU.

A 46-year-old Whitehall man was killed Friday afternoon, June 13, when a section of a tree he was cutting in Mason County fell and struck him in the head, according to Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole.