The Montcalm Area Reading Council (MARC) is excited to announce that it has been awarded a $1,550 grant from the ProLiteracy Literacy Opportunity Fund.

Bids for team state finals appearances have expired for the Tri County, Lakeview and Montabella wrestling teams.  The Vikings won their district in Division 3 last week with wins over Kent City in the ...

A court hearing was once again adjourned and delayed related to a serious injury accident last summer near Greenville. Rex Allan Hubbard, 38, of Gowen is charged with operating while license suspended ...

The city of Ionia Planning Commission voted 4-0 on Wednesday to approve a rezoning request from RAVE (Relief After Violent Encounter), a nonprofit organization founded in 1979 to support, shelter and ...

This restaurant owner supports Michigan’s scheduled increases in minimum wage, tipped wage, and paid time off for her employees. As I watch the debate over legislation intended to weaken the planned ...

When we think of the drugs and therapy usually prescribed for many of these things, a simple ten minutes with lovely music is not a bad prescription. Cara has also begun to play Bach for their school ...

Planning the family budget is a relatively easy task as long as you know where the money is coming from and you are pretty sure the flow of dough won't be abruptly cut off.

The children all left for school. Whew, while I love them more than words, a quiet house is also welcome to the mind and body.

With each stitch that goes into every quilt crafted by Martha Goetz, so too goes with it an ounce of passion and love, knowing someone might find peace as the comforter wraps them in a warm embrace.

Psalm 127:4,5 says “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. “Blessed is the man who fills his ...

The first grant funding cycle of the Montcalm County Community Advancement Committee is set to go live in March. The Montcalm County Board of Commissioners last year created an endowment fund on ...

The Ionia County Career Center has announced the recipients of our prestigious December Student of the Month award winners.