Call him Solo - an elegant ambassador, and perhaps the oldest seasonal wildlife resident at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. For decades, this trumpeter swan has returned every year at the refuge.

FRUITPORT — A 23-year-old Fruitport man has been charged with a misdemeanor for killing a male swan protected by state law in front of a crowd of witnesses during Fruitport Old-Fashioned Days.

Bringing in huge, hostile swans to chase away smaller, gentler geese does not have the ring of brilliance to it. It sounds a little like using poison toads to counter a plague of frogs, bees to drive ...