By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor PENTWATER — Steve Brock, who has decades of experience in municipal management, was hired by the Pentwater Village Council as the village’s interim manager. Brock is filling in until the council finds a permanent replacement for Chris Brown who was fired without cause last March. Brock was most recently interim city manager last summer for Traverse…
OCEANA COUNTY — Spectrum announced the launch of Internet services to more than 200 homes and small businesses in previously unserved or underserved portions of Greenwood and Newfield townships. “Spectrum’s newly-constructed fiber optic network buildout in Oceana County is part of the company’s approximately $5 billion RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) related investment in unserved rural communities, partly offset by…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor HART TOWNSHIP — A fire destroyed a trailer at the Pines Mobile Home Park on 72nd Avenue Monday, June 3, said Hart Fire Chief Dwight Fuehring Firefighters from Hart, Pentwater and Shelby-Benona departments were dispatched to the scene shortly before 11 a.m. “It started in the back bedroom, and it was an unknown source that…
Oceana County Administrator Tracy Byard is one of four candidates who is being interviewed by the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners to be hired as the new Leelanau County administrator. Byard and the other three candidates are scheduled for a second round of interviews next Monday, June 10, according to leelanauticker.com. Byard was hired in 2022 after Robert Sobie retired.…
WALKERVILLE — Oceana County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 19-year-old Walkerville man who allegedly broke into the Walkerville KwikMart, at 330 E. Main St., and stole tobacco vapes, cigarettes and liquor early Saturday morning, June 1. Store employees noticed a window was broken upon arriving for their shift at 8 a.m. Deputies investigated the scene and developed a suspect, said Oceana…
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