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Election Results and What To Expect From Your New Mayor

By: Emily Guiles It has been decided in the November 3rd election that Kimberly Sims will be the next Mayor of Muskegon Heights, Sims gathered 37 percent of the votes, the runner up was former councilwoman, Dorothy Scott, followed by Bonnie McGlothin and Eddie Jenkins. The first order of business Sims says she will undertake is to make sure that everyone on the council is on the same page and that they are a unified front. Sims has already served […]

November 5, 2015

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Anthony McDonald Remembered

By: Emily Guiles The Muskegon Heights Council lost a valuable member on October 26th. Councilman Anthony McDonald was almost half way through his four year term that would have ended in 2017. McDonald was West Michigan Chapter President of Reaching Out Against Road Rage, and the director of Toombs Funeral Home where a wake was held for him on Sunday November 1st. McDonald has overcome many obstacles in his life and is proof that your past doesn’t determine your future. […]

November 5, 2015

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A New Council

By: Emily Guiles Along with getting a new Mayor the city of Muskegon Heights can also look forward to receiving new members to their Council. These candidates for Muskegon Heights City Council are; Dave Alves, former fire chief in Muskegon Heights who feels that he has unique qualifications as he already has experience as a department leader. Kelly Kitchen, longtime resident of Muskegon Heights with no prior experience in the government of Muskegon Heights, feels as though she can bring […]

October 29, 2015 1

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Watch Muskegon Heights Go

By: Emily Guiles On the 13th of July the Muskegon Heights council meeting took place to address two orders of new business and hear some of the citizens present speak. The first order of new business was discussing the eight thousand dollars needed to go towards new road signs and restriping the roads themselves. According to the council the roads have not been restriped since the early 2000’s, a motion to allot the eight thousand dollars in repairs was […]

July 18, 2015

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Chicken Coop and Shell Mart Update

By: Emily Guiles Recently the popular restaurant in Muskegon Heights, Shell Mart, and the Chicken Coop, has had to change their store hours and cordon off parts of their parking lot. Both of these stores applied for waivers but Chicken Coop was the only one to receive it out of the two. Muskegon Heights Police Chief Lynn Gill shed some light on how the stores have changed and why they had to enact the ordinance in the first place. Gill […]

June 29, 2015

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May 27th Hearings

By: Emily Guiles On May 27th Muskegon Heights City Council conducted three hearings, the subject of which are three businesses. Two of which are the Chicken Coop and Shell Mart. All businesses were trying to petition and waiver the public ordinance that these businesses were put under. The first up to argue their case was Shellmart, who were represented by, Attorney Tom Andrews. Andrews argued that Shellmart should have a waiver because prior to the ordinance it had been open […]

May 29, 2015

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To Ipad, or not to Ipad?

By: Emily Guiles On Monday the eighteenth of May Muskegon Height City Council held their third council meeting this month. New and old business was up for council discussion, the first of which was; The issue of distributing Ipads to the members of the council to use strictly for council business. Councilwoman McGlothin brought up this issue because of the problems all the council members have been having with their designated council emails. The council emails have been dysfunctional and […]

May 29, 2015

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Muskegon Heights High School Talent Show

By: Emily Guiles Muskegon Heights high school was the recent host of a talent show on Saturday May ninth, put on by WUVS radio station and Mike Thompson. WUVS has put on talent shows before but this is the first one in over three years. The talent in the show was top notch and showed the highly artistic side to both students and community members. Not all participants were students or alumni from Muskegon Heights high school. The open competition […]

May 11, 2015

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Muskegon Heights City Council Meeting April 27th

By: Emily Guiles Muskegon Heights city council meeting started out with the public hearing for the submission of the proposed 41st fiscal year annual consolidated action plan to the US department of housing and urban development (HUD), about which, the Grant Administrator for the city planning department, Carol Cook had to say she was satisfied with all regulations and funds received. Another subject addressed was the recommendation by the Interim City Manager for the council to approve the sale of […]

April 29, 2015