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Hart City Hall closes due to ‘major flooding’

September 3, 2025

HART — The City of Hart announced that city hall is closed until further notice due to “major flooding” Wednesday, Sept. 3. The City of Hart made the following post on Facebook Wednesday around 10:30 a.m.: “City hall is closed until further notice due to major flooding inside the building. Please do not attempt to come in.” Wide-spread rain showers…

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Golf cart with four occupants flips over; driver injured

September 3, 2025

PENTWATER TOWNSHIP — A 2025 Denago Nomad XL golf cart driven by a 72-year-old Pentwater man and carrying three passengers flipped over after hitting a tree Wednesday, Aug. 27, shortly after 5 p.m. on North Hilltop Court, according to an Oceana County Sheriff’s Office accident report. The driver was injured in the crash, but none of the passengers were hurt,…

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Medical staff donates life-saving AED to sheriff’s office

September 3, 2025

SHELBY — Trinity Health Shelby Hospital medical professionals were recently presented with a “thank you” from the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office for their purchase of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the sheriff’s office. “A cardiac science AED was purchased by a generous donation from the medical providers in our community,” states Oceana County Undersheriff Ryan Schiller in a press…

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51st Circuit Court sentences, published Aug. 28, 2025

August 28, 2025

HART — The following were sentenced this week in Oceana County’s 51st Circuit Court: – Leonard Richard Burch, Jr., 53, pleaded guilty April 14 to two counts of assaulting/resisting/obstructing police and was sentenced Aug. 25 to five months in jail with credit for 66 days served; 18 months probation; and $726 in fines and costs. – Jacob Brian-Edward Achterhoff, 26,…

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Police news, published Aug. 28, 2025

August 28, 2025

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, Aug. 25, 2025: 2:58 p.m., assault, no arrest, 5700 block of West Sixth Street, Village of Mears. 9:08 p.m., a 57-year-old Hart man was arrested for assaulting/resisting/obstructing police, 5700 block of…

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