Scottville Clown Band accepting summer camp scholarship applications

April 21, 2025

SCOTTVILLE — The Scottville Clown Band is currently accepting scholarship applications for middle school and high school students who plan to attend summer performing arts programs. Each year, the band awards over $10,000 in scholarships to middle school and high school students who are enrolled in a summer performing arts program, such as Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp or Interlochen…

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Employment: Teaching positions, Baldwin Community Schools

April 21, 2025

Employment: Teaching positions, Baldwin Community Schools Baldwin Community Schools has the following teaching positions open: Elementary Special Education Teacher Elementary Teacher Secondary Paraprofessional Secondary Special Education Teacher Secondary Math Teacher Secondary World Language Teacher Secondary English and Social Studies Teacher Substitute Teachers Click here for more information. This is a paid posting. Published until May 5, 2025.  

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Employment: English Teacher, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: English Teacher, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025. 

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Employment: English Teacher, Hart Middle School

April 21, 2025

Employment: English Teacher, Hart Middle School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025. 

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Employment: Girls Varsity Basketball Coach, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: Girls Varsity Basketball Coach, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025. 

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Employment: JV Volleyball Coach, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: JV Volleyball Coach, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025. 

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Employment: Math/Science Teacher, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: Math/Science Teacher, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025

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Employment: Drama Coordinator, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: Drama Coordinator, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025.

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Employment: Math Teacher, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: Math Teacher, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025. 

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Employment: Elementary Dean of Students, Hart Public Schools

April 21, 2025

Employment: Elementary Dean of Students, Hart Public Schools This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025

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Employment: Varsity Competitive Cheer Coach, Hart High School

April 21, 2025

Employment: Varsity Competitive Cheer Coach, Hart High School This is a paid posting. Published until May 10, 2025. 

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Employment: Business Office Specialist, Baldwin Community Schools

April 21, 2025

Employment: Business Office Specialist, Baldwin Community Schools Click here for interactive version and to apply. This is a paid posting. Published until May 5, 2025

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Local event scheduled for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day 

April 18, 2025

HART — The Michigan State Police in partnership with District Health Department #10, Oceana LEADS, and the Drug Enforcement Administration will host DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at locations across the country Saturday, April 26. DEA and its partners will collect tablets, capsules, patches, and other solid forms of prescription drugs.   “For more than a decade, the event…

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Pentwater Women’s Club announces annual scholarship contest

April 18, 2025

PENTWATER — The application process for the Pentwater Women’s Club annual scholarship contest is now open.  The PWC Scholarship Fund began in 1967 and has awarded more than 200 scholarships to Pentwater High School graduating seniors. The group also provides an annual scholarship to support a returning adult female student to West Shore Community College. “This year, the club is…

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Connie Cargill named MTA immediate past president

April 18, 2025

GOLDEN TOWNSHIP — Golden Township Treasurer Connie Cargill will serve on the Michigan Townships Association executive committee as the association’s immediate past president, following her term as 2024 president.  “Serving more than 99 percent of Michigan’s 1,240 townships — which includes more than 6,500 elected leaders plus tens of thousands of additional township appointed officials, staff and volunteers, MTA is…

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Police news, published April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025

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 Monday, April 14, 2025: 4:30 p.m., (Michigan State Police), a 38-year-old Hesperia man was arrested for operating while intoxicated, open intoxicants in a vehicle, and driving without a valid license, Polk Road and 64th…

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Fishermen rescue fellow angler from Lake Michigan

April 17, 2025

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor BENONA TOWNSHIP — A 68-year-old Montague man who fell into the 36-degree waters of Lake Michigan Wednesday morning, April 16, at the Benona Township Park was rescued by two other fishermen. Raymond Lohman was wearing chest-high waders while surf fishing in Lake Michigan at the park, which is also called Stony Lake Oval, around 8:30…

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Joan David re-elected to Michigan Townships Association Board of Directors

April 17, 2025

NEWFIELD TOWNSHIP — Newfield Township Supervisor Joan David has been re-elected to the Michigan Townships Association Board of Directors, serving as director of MTA District 11, which encompasses Lake, Mason and Oceana counties. David was re-elected to the position by her township peers at a caucus election at MTA’s 2025 Annual Educational Conference earlier this month in Grand Rapids. Serving…

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51st Circuit Court sentencings, published April 16, 2025

April 16, 2025

HART — The following were sentenced this week in Oceana County’s 51st Circuit Court: – Jason Alan Ennis, 38, pleaded no contest Feb. 10 to possession of burglar’s tools and was sentenced April 14 to one year in jail; $6,355.02 in restitution; and $598 in fines and costs. One count of trespassing was dismissed. – Adam Scott Schilz-Kissling, 33, pleaded…

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Arts, culture, yoga, wellness center selected for church property redevelopment

April 16, 2025

HART — The Monarch, an arts, culture, yoga and wellness center, was chosen as the winning proposal for redeveloping the former Congregational United Church. The Hart Tax Increment Finance Authority selected the winning proposal by Cindy Beth Davis-Dykema for its Pitch for the Parcel redevelopment initiative “created to revitalize a prominent and historic property in downtown Hart,” states a press…

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News alert: Crews respond to water-related emergency at ‘Stony Lake Oval’

April 16, 2025

BENONA TOWNSHIP — Emergency crews were dispatched to the Benona Township Park, more commonly known as the Stony Lake Oval, for a 65-year-old man “found in the water” Wednesday, April 16, shortly after 8:30 a.m. The man was “blue in color, breathing,” according to dispatch information. An Aeromed helicopter was called to transport the man from Trinity Health Shelby Hospital.…

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