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From playing it as kids to watching it as adults, the love of the game has been passed on through generations. Baseball. The great American pastime. “I just have always loved baseball,” David Otis, Lansing Lugnuts attendee, said. The sport is deeply woven into the fabric of America. From the first pro game in Cincinnati in 1869, there have always been players who never let the fear of striking out keep them from playing the game. “Jackie Robinson,” Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, Lugnuts broadcaster, said.

The Allegan County Senior Millage helps support nearly 1,500 seniors in the area, funding in-home and community services. The current millage is set to expire this December, and its renewal will be put into the hands of voters during the Aug. 4 primary election. “So many people have said they wouldn't be able to stay in their home if it wasn't for these services,” Mary Campbell, co-chair, Allegan County Millage, said. “They’d have to be in a nursing facility.

Body camera footage obtained by News Channel 3 from the Branch County Sheriff’s Office shows the immediate search and rescue efforts following the deadly EF-3 tornado that tore through Union City in March. Three people were killed, twelve others were hurt, and the neighborhood on Union Lake is still unrecognizable to this day. When tornado warnings began flooding in on March 6, Sergeant Joe Renshaw went straight to Union City. “I figured there's going to be a storm, right?