Arts & Culture
HART – The City of Hart is among four finalists for the Michigan Municipal League’s 2025 Community Excellence Award for the city’s HArt Project. The HArt Project focuses on art, culture and diversity. Among the project’s goals is getting more art installations downtown, such as the gigantic Tin Man that arrived two years ago. The other three finalists are…
By Ross Field, Contributing Writer ROTHBURY — And that’s a wrap. The massive number of cars heading south on US 31 Monday morning, June 23, was proof positive that the 2025 Electric Forest had come to an end. While Mother Nature brought intermittent rain on Thursday and Friday, and high winds over Saturday and Sunday, these weather events actually contributed…
By Ross Field, Contributing Writer ROTHBURY — Nestled deep in the towering pines of the Sherwood Forest, the Art Bar has been a popular wayside stop, a quiet oasis in the shade, for folks wandering between the Ranch Arena and Sherwood Court stages since 2015. Over the course of the festival the Art Bar offers craft projects for folks to…
By Ross Field, Contributing Writer ROTHBURY — The transformation of the sprawling Double JJ Resort is nearly complete. The huge pasture along US 31 is filling with tents and campers; the Sherwood Forest will be a kaleidoscope of lights and lasers; and by tonight (June 19) Oceana County’s population will have more than tripled as folks from around the world…
PENTWATER — Pentwater Jr. Women’s Club’s 60th Annual Pentwater Juried Art and Craft Fair is set for Saturday, July 12, from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. in downtown Pentwater. The juried art fair features all original work of the artist’s own creation, including painting, ceramics, jewelry, photography, weaving, clothing, sculpture, and other media. Always a highlight of the summer activities,…
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