Firefighters burn house for training exercise By Allison Scarbrough, Editor GRANT TOWNSHIP — Just one night after fighting a “real structure fire”, local firefighters fine tuned their life saving skills the next night with a training exercise of fighting a staged house fire. “We did a live fire training last night,” said Grant Township Fire Chief Dan Yost. Firefighters from…
Space heater may be cause of trailer fire By Allison Scarbrough, Editor GRANT TOWNSHIP — A single-wide trailer is a total loss after fire ripped through it Tuesday night, Oct. 31, during a rare Halloween snowstorm. A space heater may have caused the fire at 7110 Clearwater Court, said Grant Township Fire Chief Dan Yost. The southwest portion of Oceana…
Weaving whiz’s memory deeply woven into many hearts By Ron Beeber, Contributing Writer PENTWATER — Weaving is the craft or action of interlacing threads to form fabric. Search on the Internet the phrase “beauty of weaving,” and one finds this statement: “the way yarns go to form a fabric symbolizes relationships that we build and hold in this world. Nothing…
Rollover crash on US 31 near the south county line GRANT TOWNSHIP — Emergency crews were dispatched to US 31 near the Oceana-Muskegon county line for a reported rollover crash in the median Tuesday, Oct. 31, around 4:45 p.m. The 911 caller reported to Central Dispatch that no one is injured, but a mother and daughter are pinned inside the…
Winter weather advisory continues until midnight The weather for Halloween 2023 sure seems like a trick, rather than a treat. Oceana County, along with Newaygo, Muskegon and Ottawa counties, remains under a winter weather advisory until midnight, Nov. 1, according to the US National Weather Service. Expect additional snow accumulations of up to 5 inches. Locally higher amounts are possible…
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