A Lakeview woman and her infant child were injured after their car was struck by another car containing five teenagers. Mecosta County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the accident at 2:17 p.m. Tuesday on 5 Mile Road near 95th Avenue.

Danish Festival-goers may not have known his name, but they knew his face. Stanley Saussy, better known as “Kempy,” has been a familiar figure in Danish Festival parades since the early 1970s. Kempy died Saturday after a heart attack at his home in Greenville. He was 66.

After competing at the DECA State Competition earlier this month, students from Greenville High School have qualified for the International Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. DECA is a student organization, comprised of sophomores, juniors and seniors and it prepares their members for careers in marketing, management, finance and hospitality.

A motion to hold a public hearing to gather input on appointing vs. electing road commissioners failed in a deadlocked vote this afternoon. The Montcalm County Board of Commissioners voted 4-4 to host a public hearing.

A hot topic at our state Capitol is the debate over proposed legislation that would allow community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees in select areas. House Bill 4496 would authorize community colleges to confer baccalaureate degrees in only five applied and technical areas with demonstrated demand from employers and students: concrete technology, maritime technology, culinary arts, energy production technology and nursing. This legislation provides a new opportunity for community colleges to serve local citizens in their home communities without detracting from the excellent work being done at universities around the state.

Court security is being kept on life support for six more months. The Montcalm County Board of Commissioners voted 7-1 on Monday to retain court security until the end of this fiscal year by using the county’s entire $75,000 contingency fund — a reserve set aside for unplanned expenses.

A Greenville man was back in court Thursday for a second sex crime involving teenage sisters. Claude Knapp, 47, was previously sentenced to from five to 15 years in prison in July 2011 after sexually assaulting a teenager. He pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in that crime.

A man was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison Thursday after breaking into the Greenville Municipal Airport and stealing an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) last year. Tyler Rivera, 19, of Holt, previously pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a building with intent. The crime was Rivera’s fifth felony as an adult.

A Carson City man facing criminal charges in four different cases was arraigned Thursday in 8th Judicial Circuit Court. Brandon Devers, 28, is charged with arson of personal property and receiving and concealing stolen property (a motor vehicle) in one case, possessing meth, possessing marijuana and fourth-degree fleeing and eluding a police officer in a second case and unlawfully driving away a motor vehicle in two other cases.

Maddie’s House, the Stanton park dedicated to Maddie Trimper who died at age 7 in 2005 of metachromatic leukodystrophy disorder, was vandalized last week.
Damage was done to the bear statue, along with the treehouse. “A couple of kids skipped school and went up to Maddie’s House and did a significant amount of damage,” said Maddie’s father Jeff Trimper. “It looks like they sat in the house and kicked the walls of the house out. The bear is also damaged with an ear and arm broken off.”