The wheels of government are turning slowly to demolish the Carnation Building in downtown Sheridan. Sheridan Village Council members agreed Tuesday to pursue a $400,000 Brownfield Authority Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would create a three-step process to eventually demolish the building and clean up contamination on the property.

An Edmore man whose drunken driving killed a motorcyclist last August was sentenced Monday to up to 15 years in prison.

A dilapidated former gas station in Amble may finally get cleaned up after years of decay. Montcalm County Building Department Director Scott Minard condemned the two-acre property at 15350 Howard City-Edmore Road (M-46) last July. The 1,680-square-foot building was built in 1980. Thebo Foods sold the property to Kanton Realty in 2000. Jolly Roger in New York City purchased the property in 2005, but the property went into forfeiture last March due to unpaid taxes.

A 7-week-old puppy is dead but the homeowners are safe after fire broke out in a house on the east side of Half Mile Lake. Five fire departments battled the fire on Jewett Street, which runs off Half Mile Road west of Morgan Mills Avenue in Spencer Township.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton popularized the phrase, “It takes a village” as the title of a book she authored while serving as first lady in the 1990s. It since has been misused and overused on a variety of subjects over the years. However, in some cases the phrase is spot on. It does take a village — or a city, community or group of people — to do certain things. Solving crime is one of them.

Greenville girls basketball coach Eric Nichols is seeing a lot of good things from his Yellow Jackets in his first season.
Greenville used a lot of assists and rebounds to knock off the Muskegon Mona Shores Sailors 44-40 Tuesday night.

After a brief discussion about the condemned Carnation building during Tuesday night’s Sheridan Village Council meeting, it appears the wheels are slowly turning if effort to officially demolition the property. Council members agreed to pursue a $400,000 Brownfield Authority Grant through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which would create a three step process to eventually demolish the building and clean up any contamination on the property.

Like the girls game before them, the Central Montcalm boys basketball team fought and rallied, but could not come away with a win.
The Green Hornets were down 37-21 at halftime, rallied, but could not get over the hump in a 54-45 loss to CSAA rival Reed City on Tuesday night.

It was a tale of two halves for the Central Montcalm girls basketball team.
The Green Hornets trailed 23-6 midway through the second quarter, but managed to battle back, take the lead and lose to the Reed City Coyotes 42-41 on Tuesday night at home.