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The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is recent police activity in Oceana County: Friday, Aug. 21, 2026: 10:06 a.m., (Michigan State Police), a 26-year-old man was arrested for operating while intoxicated, 3000 block of 104th Avenue, Hart Township. He was lodged in the Oceana County Jail. Monday,…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor HART — The Oceana County probate judge is considering a petition from an Ottawa County man to authorize him to take custody of the baby girl’s remains that were found in a porta-potty at Electric Forest last June. Judge Eric R. Fox held a hearing Thursday, Aug. 27, in Oceana County Probate Court regarding Travis…
Pirate News is a presentation of Hart Public Schools in partnership with Oceana County Press. HART — When students at Hart Public Schools return to campus for the start of the new school year Wednesday, Sept. 2, they will be greeted by a new school resource officer. Oceana County Sheriff’s Deputy Owen McGuigan has been selected to fill the SRO…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor COLFAX TOWNSHIP — A 40-year-old Walkerville woman died when the lawn tractor she was operating rolled on top of her Tuesday evening, Aug. 25, in the 7800 block of North Tall Timber Trail near School Section Lake, said Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast. The woman’s 42-year-old husband returned home and made the horrifying discovery of…
HART — An 18-year-old Ada man has been charged in Oceana County’s 79th District Court with a felony count of operating an ORV (off-road vehicle) while intoxicated causing death in connection to a fatal crash that occurred over the weekend. Luke William Kooistra, 17 of Ada was pronounced dead at the scene following a side-by-side rollover crash Sunday, Aug. 23,…
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