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Nominations open for Pentwater Citizen of the Year

May 7, 2026

PENTWATER — The Pentwater Service Club is accepting nominations for the club’s 2026 Citizen of the Year.  The winner will be recognized at an Oct. 6 community dinner and program held in their honor at the Pentwater Yacht Club. “For more than 50 years the PSC has recognized an area citizen for her/his outstanding community service through civic, charitable, educational,…

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Drunk driving arrests top sheriff’s office activity

May 6, 2026

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is recent activity of the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office: Monday, April 27, 2026: 2:37 p.m.,  larceny of a Hewlett-Packard 17-inch laptop valued at $1,700 in the 9400 block of South East Lane Drive, Grant Township. Tuesday, April 28, 2026: 5:13 a.m.,…

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Woman injured in rollover crash on the dunes

May 6, 2026

GOLDEN TOWNSHIP — A 25-year-old Midland, Mich. woman was injured following a rollover crash at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes Tuesday, May 5, at 2 p.m., according to an Oceana County Sheriff’s Office accident report. The woman, who was operating a 2020 Polaris ATV, “went over a small hill and hit a bump and rolled causing the driver to be…

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Hart voters pass non-homestead millage

May 6, 2026

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor HART — Voters in the Hart Public Schools district passed a non-homestead millage proposal 547-435 Tuesday, May 5. The millage will fund costs for the district’s operations, including teacher and staff salaries, previously said Hart Public Schools Superintendent Mark Platt. “It’s simply a millage that the state requires us to pass, and if we don’t…

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Man sentenced to prison for meth delivery/manufacture

May 5, 2026

HART — A 27-year-old man was sentenced to three to 20 years in prison for a conviction of delivery/manufacture of methamphetamine in Oceana County’s 51st Circuit Court Monday, May 4, according to court records. Kaleb Joshua-James Pringle pleaded guilty to the charge, March 9. Judge Susan K. Sniegowski gave Pringle credit for 52 days served in jail. His Oceana County…

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