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MUSKEGON–The Local Sports Journal is pleased to welcome award-winning sportswriter Tom Westerholm to its staff.

Westerholm joined Local Sports Journal as the site’s newest writer on February 6. He will be covering LSJ’s Game of the Week and other assignments. 

A recent transplant to the area from Massachusetts, Westerholm is a former Boston Celtics beat writer for MassLive and was most recently a sportswriter for Boston.com/The Boston Globe, where he won the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s award for Best Sports Story in 2021. His work has also appeared on ESPN.

Sportswriter Tom Westerholm

Tune in tonight (Tuesday) to LSJ’s boys and girls’ basketball coverage as Tom will be covering the Muskegon Big Reds at Grand Rapids Union OK Conference-Green matchup. Muskegon comes into the contest with a 10-0 record in the league while Union is 8-2 in the conference.

On Wednesday morning, catch LSJ’s preview of our Game of the Week for a top area game on Friday.