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HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 10, 2023) - A line that Al McGeehan used to say at the midway point of the Tulip Time Festival's annual run comes to mind...

Back in 1988, an industrialist in Holland, Mich. named Edgar Prince, traveled to Europe and saw a few rare places where restaurants around the edges of city squares had heated walks under their outdoor eating areas. This led him to suggest that Holland, population 28,000, consider installing a citywide “snowmelt” system for the often snowed-in city. As former Mayor Al McGeehan put it, “Back in 1988, when the idea was first launched, it was rocket science to us. It had never been done before in the United States. We had no idea, number one, how it worked, or how we could hook it...

HOLLAND — Former mayor, city councilman and president of the Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce Louis Hallacy II is being remembered as a visionary and "community champion" who helped shape Holland into the city it is today.Hallacy, 90, died Thursday, Jan. 7.He was Holland's mayor from 1973 until 1979. During his tenure, he served as the face of Holland when President Gerald R. Ford visited Holland for the Tulip Time festival in 1976.Under Hallacy's mayorship, several major city