Kandu starts work on combat bandages for U.S. Army

Kandu, a Holland nonprofit organization that provides training and work for people with barriers to employment, celebrated the start last week of a three-year...

Potential investors will tour downtown Muskegon

In a move to attract new business and investment in downtown Muskegon, the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Muskegon Now have organized...

West Michigan Symphony embarks on $480,000 capital campaign

The West Michigan Symphony announced today that it is embarking on a $480,000 capital campaign and has already received a $250,000 lead grant from...

VerDuin earns Lakeshore Athena Award

Patricia VerDuin, executive director of Ready for School, an initiative of the Holland/Zeeland Community Foundation, is the 2012 Lakeshore Athena Award recipient. VerDuin, of Grand...

Industrial-strength fundraising

There are 100 years of history behind the Muskegon Museum of Art, and the organization is still making history as it prepares to spin...

TEDxMuskegon offers ideas to ‘Energize’ communities

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State panel recommends merger of Saugatuck, Douglas

A majority of the Michigan Boundary Commission recommended at a meeting in Okemos yesterday that Saugatuck and Douglas should merge, saying it would make...

KitchenAid’s Twitter channel travels full circle after errant tweet

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Wind energy project has Muskegon port hopping

Arn Boezaart has enjoyed watching the port of Muskegon “come to life” this summer, to use his words, and because of the industry he...

Another victim of invasive species shipwrecks

LANSING — Thousands of shipwrecks lie at the bottom of Michigan waters. These cultural treasures attract thousands of visitors to the state, but changing...

Commissioners get stormwater update

Members of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council appeared before Grand Rapids city commissioners last week to present the findings of a two-year stakeholder...

High-energy Rooks is a resourceful person

Sarah Rooks, the president of Watermark Center in Muskegon, claims she has never had a problem finding a job — not even before she...

GMBae acquires Visbeen Associates

GMB Architecture + Engineering Inc. in Holland has just gotten larger — and increased its presence in the residential and retail development markets —...

Holland and Zeeland And then they were one

After two and a half years of exploration, negotiating, surveying, research, planning, questioning and meeting, there is a new chamber of commerce on the...

Husband and wife win Muskegon entrepreneur award

It was a two-fer at the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce 2012 Outstanding Entrepreneur event last week. Just one business was featured, but two...