
News alert: Vehicle crash on Hazel Road. HART TOWNSHIP — Life EMS and Hart Area Fire Department were dispatched to a rollover crash on Hazel Road near 100th Avenue Sunday, April 25, around 5:45 p.m.

Asparagus festival parade canceled, but queen pageant still a go. HART — The 2021 National Asparagus Festival will not include the popular Joan Glover Royale Parade due to COVID-19, but there will still be an Asparagus Queen Pageant. A post on the organization’s Facebook page states the following: “The NAF board met and discussed all aspects of potential events and…

Fire destroys house. By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. GRANT TOWNSHIP — Fire destroyed a house at 3215 Cleveland Road near Rothbury Friday evening, April 23. The fire started in the garage where a person was working on a motorcycle. Gas leaked out of the motorcycle, which was then ignited by a portable heater in the garage, said Grant Township Fire Chief…

Honoring a legend. By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. GRANT TOWNSHIP — Area firefighters, police officers, EMTs and emergency personnel paid tribute to Grant Township Fire Chief Roland Brooks with a procession from the fire station near Rothbury to his funeral service in Shelby Saturday morning, April 24. Brooks served as fire chief for 40 years and had been on the fire…

News alert: Attic fire on Cleveland Road. GRANT TOWNSHIP — Shelby-Benona Fire Department was requested to respond to a rekindle of a structure fire in the 3200 block of Cleveland Road between 80th Avenue and Water Road Saturday, April 24, at 7:45 a.m. Central Dispatch reported that there was an attic fire that rekindled from a fire that occurred Friday, April…