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Hart Community Performing Arts Series announces concert lineup for 2025-26 season

August 8, 2025

HART — The Hart Community Performing Arts Series recently announced its schedule of concerts for the 2025–2026 season. The season will begin Friday, Oct. 10 with a concert by the Kris Johnson Group. Kris Johnson is an empathetic, intelligent, and efficient trumpeter, composer, arranger, film composer, and educator based in Detroit. With contributions to six Grammy-nominated albums as a trumpeter…

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Hart named finalist for state-wide Community Excellence Award

July 31, 2025

  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…

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Until next year, Electric Forest

June 25, 2025

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…

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Electric Forest’s Art Bar taps forest goers’ creativity

June 22, 2025

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…

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Electric Forest puts Rothbury ‘on the map’

June 19, 2025

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…

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