Newaygo, Michigan SperlingViews

Newaygo is a good place for recreation and summer fun; river trips, lake adventures, fourth of July with festivities on many of the lakes and beaches, camping, and more. This is a place to leave as soon as fall passes. I would not recommend living here. It is small town life but with an edge of constant welfare bordering White Cloud and Fremont and other small towns that struggle to keep up with the rest of the world economically and academically - drugs and alcoholism quite common. People who do not have strong family ties here generally get out as soon as they can.

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high taxable value and too high taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12/2/2008

My son and daughter in law live in Newaygo , Grant township. They bought the house 4 years ago and they were doing fine until the township kept raising their taxes because they didn't raise it when the former owners lived there for two years prior. Now they are having a hard time and they pay outrageous taxes and the supposed value is way to high . I don't think that is fair for the taxes to be raised because they forgot . That is taking advantage of two hard working young couple just trying to survive. In my opinion the area is not the best to live in. The places around the area are not maintained , they need to be cleaned up big time. The road they live on is awful ,bad holes and bumps, I used to live on a dirt road and it was not anywhere near as bad as that one. If u have to pay such high taxes the township better get it together and maintain the road. So if you want to live someplace in Michigan , don't chose Newaygo , Grant township!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![read more...]

A place to visit - 11/30/2008

Newaygo is a good place for recreation and summer fun; river trips, lake adventures, fourth of July with festivities on many of the lakes and beaches, camping, and more. This is a place to leave as soon as fall passes. I would not recommend living here. It is small town life but with an edge of constant welfare bordering White Cloud and Fremont and other small towns that struggle to keep up with the rest of the world economically and academically - drugs and alcoholism quite common. People who do not have strong family ties here generally get out as soon as they can.[read more...]