 | Beautiful View The Noordhouse Dunes provides plenty of spectacular views of Lake Michigan. Beacon Staff Writer Mark Lewis writes about his experience camping in the federally-owned 3,500 acre dunes.
Photo by Mark Lewis
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The 2009 Beacon Summer Camping Series kicks off at the Nordhouse Dunes Area, north of Ludington....
LUDINGTON — The older man moved like a specter toward us, appearing out of nowhere to say the trail ahead was not passable.
“You’re not going to make it through,” the stranger said, as he passe...
Since its creation in 2003, the disc golf course in Whitehall Township has been growing in popularity. In fact, it’s become so popular that volunteers are now adding another 9 holes to the eighteen-ho...
Whitehall’s Lauren DuBois has earned back-to-back All-district, All-Conference and All-Area girls soccer honors for her play in 2008 and this past season. Now you can add a Division 3 All-State Honora...
Despite the break for summer fun, July will be a busy time for the Montague Wildcat volleyball program, and Head Coach Sara Blankstrom.
First off Saturday, July 11, the program will host a ben...
Have fun on the golf course, play for great prizes and help out the community by entering the 3rd annual Montague-Whitehall Rotary Club Golf Outing which will be held Saturday, July 11, at Old Channel...
Hole in one
• Billy Oosting, June 25, Grand View Golf Course, Par 3 Hole # 8, 100 yards, wedge.
• Don Kroll, Grand View Golf Course, Par 3 Hole #11, 142 yards, seven iron.
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EAST LANSING — Eight student-athletes who will be juniors at their schools during the 2009-10 academic year have been selected to serve a two-year term on the Michigan High School Athletic Association...
EAST LANSING — The recipients of the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Good Sports Are Winners! Awards for the winter sports season have been selected, a group of 261 teams representing over...
WHITEHALL — Although Whitehall’s Nicci Thomas is the Vikings’ best basketball post-player since Melissa Griffin—and could surpass Griffin if she has the kind of season we all expect of her this coming...
Like life, it’s sometimes shocking the way things shake out in sports.
First the Red Wings can’t lose, then, a few days later, they can’t win.
First they want to tear down Tigers Stadiu...
Three White Lake area girls soccer players made this year’s West Michigan Conference squad, including Whitehall sophomore Lauren DuBois, who was the area’s lone member of the league’s first team.
Winners in shuffleboard competition at the White Lake Shuffleboard Club:
For the week ending June 12 — Carol Slater, Nancy DuBois, Vicki Goss...
Michigan hunters harvested an estimated 489,922 deer in 2008, a one-percent increase from 2007, the Department of Natural Resources
announced at last week’s Natural Resources Commission meeting...
By Tom Rau, Coast Guard Sr. Chief (ret.)
The recent tragic deaths of two NFL football players in Florida consumed the written and electronic media for days.
What drew attention ...
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