Public bus system threatened with defunding likely to be cut loose from Muskegon County
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
After an initial vote to defund the MATS bus system, the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners has reversed itself, but is on track to shed responsibility for it.MLive.com File Photo
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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – After an initial vote to defund Muskegon’s MATS bus system, the county board has reversed itself but is on track to shed responsibility for it.
Those commissioners who voiced complaints about the public transportation system are pushing for a new entity, other than Muskegon County government, to govern the operation.
$5M grant sought to expand Muskegon County’s planned park on Lake Michigan
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – Another 162 acres could be added to the future Dune Harbor Park on Lake Michigan if approval is given for a second $5 million state grant to purchase the former sand mining property.
Muskegon County is poised to request the grant from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund to purchase the property off of Lincoln Street in Norton Shores.
The property includes a large inland lake, about 2,000 feet of Lake Michigan shoreline and vast swaths of wooded dune land. It’s connected to a similar 214-acre property to the south, also with an inland lake, that the county is purchasing with the help of an earlier $5 million grant from the same fund to create Dune Harbor Park.
Rebuke of Capitol attack narrowly approved by deeply divided, contentious Muskegon County board
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
A resolution condemning the attack on the U.S. Capitol was narrowly approved by a deeply divided Muskegon County Board of Commissioners during a meeting punctuated with interruptions and claims that the resolution itself was “lawless.” (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)AP
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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – A resolution condemning the attack on the U.S. Capitol was narrowly approved by a deeply divided Muskegon County Board of Commissioners during a meeting punctuated with interruptions and claims that the resolution itself was “lawless.”
Republican party chair, Muskegon County commissioner under fire from Democrats for Capitol violence response
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
Muskegon County Commissioner Zach Lahring, who also is chair of the local Republican party, is under fire from Democrats for continuing to back President Trump and for calling on Trump supporters to “stay the course, hold the line.” Lahring, center, is shown during a 2019 county board meeting. County board Chair Bob Skolnik is shown at the left.Kayla Renie | MLive.com
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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – A Muskegon County commissioner who also is chair of the local Republican party is under fire from Democrats for continuing to back President Trump and for calling on Trump supporters to “stay the course, hold the line.”