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JACKSON, MI – Consumers Energy is mobilizing over 300 crews to start restoring power to homes and businesses affected by high winds that battered Michigan late this afternoon and evening. “This storm has been hard-hitting right from the start, but we prepared and are starting our work to get the lights back on across Michigan,” said Norm Kapala, one of Consumers Energy’s officers in charge for restoration. “We appreciate the patience of our customers, especially as high gusts

COURTLAND TOWNSHIP — A 39 year old Solon Township man died Monday evening after being struck by a falling tree during a thunderstorm in Courtland Township, according to the Kent County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies and emergency responders were dispatched shortly after 5 p.m. April 27 to an address near Crinnion Avenue NE and 16 Mile Road NE on a report that a tree had fallen on a person. When first responders arrived, they found the man had been struck by a tree brought down by

SAND LAKE — Voters in Nelson Township and the village of Sand Lake will head to the polls May 5 to decide whether to dissolve the village government and whether to approve a fire millage increase, two measures that follow weeks of leadership turnover and debate over fire protection. The disincorporation proposal asks whether incorporation of the Village of Sand Lake should be vacated. The measure requires a two‑thirds majority of yes votes to pass, with ballots from township

This week, the school board voted to demolish the Hilltop building. I know you already know, but I had to begin this editorial somehow. I covered the decision and wrote about the costs, the planning and what comes next. But what has stayed with me isn't so much the vote itself as the thought of all the days that building held. One hundred years is a long time for any structure to stand in place. Long enough for generations to pass through it without thinking much about the fa