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CEDAR SPRINGS - If you walk into the vision center inside the 17 Mile Road Meijer in Cedar Springs, you may notice a sign stating they are closed. All Meijer locations have permanently closed their vision centers after U.S. Vision, the company that operated the optical departments inside Meijer stores, shut down all of its locations nationwide on May 23. The closure was abrupt and affected all Meijer Optical sites operated by U.S. Vision, including the stores in Cedar Springs

SOLON TOWNSHIP — The Solon Township Planning Commission has released draft five of its data center zoning ordinance and scheduled the public hearing for June 24 at 7 p.m. at Frost Creek Church, 15671 Algoma Ave NE, Cedar Springs, MI 49319. Strong ordinances are designed to protect communities from water table contamination, declining property values, noise pollution, among other things. Notably missing from this ordinance, however, are numeric allowances for water and wastewa

LANSING - Consumers Energy has filed a request with the Michigan Public Service Commission, MPSC, to raise electric rates by $456 million, marking the largest rate increase request in more than 20 years and the second year in a row the utility has sought a significant hike. The application was filed June 2, 2026, the earliest date allowed under Michigan law, which requires utilities to wait at least one year between rate case filings. The request now enters a review process t

It turns out, newspapers still make a sound when you open them. I had almost forgotten it. That little crackle when you pull one from the stack. The way the fold never quite goes back the same way once you’ve opened it. The smell of the ink on newsprint. And for the first time in nearly three years, Cedar Springs heard that sound again. At least with a newspaper bearing our hometown’s name. I was standing in the Cedar Chest Resale Shop the other morning when they were put out