A sewer back-up and breach in the village of Howard City has been resolved, but resulted in 3,000 gallons of wastewater being spilled.
The incident occurred on Friday at Lift Station 2 near 220 N. Muenscher St.
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Senior voices
FREE Montcalm County Commission on Aging hosts listening sessions for research studyMontcalm County senior citizens are active and opinionated, have much wisdom to offer and want to be involved in the community.
They are part of a rapidly growing population within the county.
They are also sometimes fragile and in need of a helping hand.
Home Township garage blaze started by homemade pool heater
A garage was lost in a Sunday night fire apparently caused by a homemade, wood-burning pool heater.
The Home Township Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 8:49 p.m. at 5422 E. Almy Road
‘Where I’m supposed to be’
Cedar Springs native Alyssa Swank celebrates opening of Wild Honey Hair Studio in GreenvilleAfter eight years of bouncing around various hair studios, renting stylist booths in the Cedar Springs area, Alyssa Swank has finally found her professional home.
On May 1, the 28-year-old hair stylist celebrated the opening of her new business in downtown Greenville — Wild Honey Hair Studio — with a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce.
‘A Flash of Green’
Former GHS band director to direct piece commissioned in her honorAs a young girl, when vacationing in Florida, Susan Gould and her family would hold out hope as they watched the sun disappear over the ocean, hoping to witness a rare, scarcely-witnessed phenomenon.
Referred to as the “green flash,” when atmospheric conditions are just right, a literal flash of green light can occasionally be witnessed when the sun sets over the horizon upon a large body of water.
Ionia County poultry ranch forced to dispose of apparently nearly 6.5 million chickens due to avian influenza
Michigan’s largest egg producer has been forced to dispose of apparently nearly 6.5 million chickens in the wake of avian influenza.
Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch, a fourth-generation family farm, owns a major chicken operation in Ionia County’s Saranac as well as another operation in Pennsylvania, and supplies eggs to all McDonald’s restaurants east of the Mississippi, along with being an Eggland’s Best franchiser throughout the Midwest.
Ionia grad portraying Eleanor Roosevelt for library benefit show
Performance set for May 11 in future location of Ionia Community LibraryEleanor Roosevelt is coming to Ionia, and she plans to do a little singing.
It won’t be Ms. Roosevelt herself — the real lady died in 1962 — it will actually be Ionia native Kate Campbell Stevenson, who uses her extensive theater training to impersonate various historical figures during educational, entertaining solo performances.
The show will take place at 4 p.m. on May 11 in the future location of the Ionia Community Library, 302 W. Main St., Ionia.
A celebration of artists
16th annual Greenville Public Schools K-12 Art Show on displayStanding shoulder to shoulder, with brushes in one hand and palettes containing a plethora of colors in the other, four Greenville High School students were busy painting away on Wednesday as dozens of spectators watched.
The four seniors, Kendra Paul, 18, Isis Hodges, 18, Jozelyn Goss, 17, and Madison Strohl, 18, were behind in submitting a project for the 16th annual Greenville Public Schools K-12 Art Show, so they decided to turn their piece into a live exhibit, working to finish their canvas mural of downtown Greenville in front of an audience during an Artists Celebratory Reception.
JUST IN: Village of Howard City experiencing sewer breach
FREEThe village of Howard City is experiencing a sewer back-up and breach.
The incident occurred on Friday at Lift Station 2 near 220 N. Muenscher St.
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