The residents of Eureka Township voted to renew the township’s road millage. Tuesday night, 386 people voted to renew the millage, while 308 voted the millage down.

John Reniff was in Howard City for his grandmother’s birthday party Sunday. He and his girlfriend, Melissa Ballard, were leaving the Tour Inn Motel to go to his grandmother’s house just a few blocks away. Just a mile south, a female driver allegedly on drugs had caused one accident and was about to cause another that would take Reniff’s life.

Cell phones and electronic devices — once considered contraband in schools — are now being viewed as educational tools. But some still believe they are a distraction and a discipline issue. Following Central Montcalm Public School’s laptop distribution in 2010 and 2011, other schools are headed in similar directions. Greenville Public Schools officials are currently testing smart phones for educational purposes and Vestaburg Community School officials are looking into tablets.

Four people were injured after the car they were riding in lost control and rolled into a cornfield Tuesday.

A 14-year-old male was arrested for unlawful driving away of an automobile early Monday morning after authorities responded to the Half Moon Lake Hotel on a report of a stolen vehicle. While Montcalm County Sheriff’s deputies were investigating the incident at the hotel around 2:30 a.m., a caller reported a male subject, described as wearing a black hoodie, and said he was running eastbound in the area of Janet Drive.

In a spoof paralleling Agatha Christie’s famous novel “And Then There Were None,” the Greenville Area Community Center 2012 Murder Mystery Dinner Theater presents “And Then There Was One.” An annual fundraiser for the center, the event is Friday and Saturday. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 7:30 at the community center located at 900 E. Kent Road. Tickets are $20 for both dinner and the show, or $15 for the show only. Tickets are available at the community center or by calling (616) 754-9163.

Tri County’s girls basketball team went into the Class B district tournament with just three wins. Belding’s team had six. On paper, the Redskins had a big advantage. But the Vikings didn’t cooperate.

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It wasn’t pretty, but Lakeview’s girls basketball team is advancing in the district tournament. The Wildcats won an ugly 39-29 game over the Chippewa Hills Warriors Monday, but coach Corey Kohler will take it.

For the second time in as many seasons the Greenville Yellow Jackets girls basketball team ended the season of the Rockford Rams.
The Yellow Jackets led for nearly the entire game, but needed overtime to knock off the Rams 45-40 advance in the Class A No. 7 district basketball tournament at Northview High School on Wednesday.