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Residents encouraged to challenge state broadband service map

April 11, 2024

Mason County residents and business owners are being encouraged to confirm or challenge their access to high-speed internet by visiting merit.edu/challenge by Tuesday, April 23, 2024.  Residents with unreliable, slow or no internet access are asked, in particular, to check their addresses on the map. This includes those who have internet at the road but cannot afford the cost to…

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Doctors team up to ‘run for Ray’

April 11, 2024

AMBER TOWNSHIP — Dr. Weston Squires and Dr. Dylan Hearns of Squires Chiropractic have teamed up with the Childhood Cancer Campaign of Mason County to participate in the Nashville Marathon in Nashville, Tenn. on April 27 to benefit Ray Anderson. Ray, 5, of Summit Township, is fighting B cell leukemia. The two chiropractors are accepting donations per mile in their…

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Police news, posted April 11, 2024

April 11, 2024

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is police activity in Mason County Wednesday, April 10, 2024: 8:53 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), two-vehicle rear-end crash, US 31 south of Forest Trail, Free Soil Township. A 34-year-old Fountain woman received non-life-threatening injuries after the vehicle she was operating…

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51st Circuit Court sentencings, posted April 11, 2024

April 11, 2024

LUDINGTON — The following were sentenced this week in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court: – Sebastian Aaron-James Cooper, 19, pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to assaulting/resisting/obstructing police and was sentenced April 9 to six months in jail with credit for 116 days served; two years probation; and $598 in fines and costs. Cooper was sentenced to a current term of 120…

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April 11, 2024

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