Christmas celebrations begin this weekend for many area towns, and the Otsego Area Historical Society hopes to provide a little history to go with everyone’s holiday cheer.

If you want a library twice the size of the current one, you have to dig deep. That’s what construction crews have been busy doing for the last week or so as they drill and fill concrete augured pilings that will be the deep foundation of Plainwell’s new Charles A. Ransom District Library.

Allegan High School Drama is cutting “Footloose” on Nov. 14-16 at the Allegan Performing Arts Center. The stage production of the movie by the same name takes the audience on a journey through some of the most iconic songs from 1984 including the hits “Holding Out for a Hero,” “Almost Paradise” and the Kenny Loggins hit “Footloose.”