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Helicopter inspections of power lines scheduled for next week

September 3, 2025

MASON COUNTY – If you see low-flying helicopters in the area next week, do not be alarmed. Helicopter inspections of power lines are scheduled in Mason County next week. “ITC will be conducting aerial patrols of the high-voltage transmission structures and lines in Michigan from Sept. 8 through Oct. 3, weather permitting,” states a press release. “The helicopter patrols are…

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Police news, published Aug. 28, 2025

August 28, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is recent police activity in Mason County: 6:21 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, Custer Road south of Meisenheimer Road, Eden Township. 10:45 am, (Ludington Police Department), a 33-year-old Scottville man was arrested on a warrant issued by…

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Police news, published Aug. 27, 2025

August 27, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is recent activity of the Mason County Sheriff’s Office: Monday, Aug. 25, 2025: 12:01 a.m., car/deer crash, no injury, Jebavy Drive south of Jagger Road, Hamlin Township. 5:04 a.m., one-vehicle crash, no injury, US 31 south of Scottville Road, Amber Township.…

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Dreamboat purchase leads to financial nightmare; Custer man receives delayed sentence

August 26, 2025

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor HART — A man who was conned out of $15,000 by another man offering to broker the purchase of his dreamboat has still not received all of his money back yet. Eric Charles Golembiewski, 43, of Custer pleaded guilty to larceny by conversion $1,000-$20,000 July 22, 2024. During a hearing Monday Aug. 25 in Oceana…

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Ludington man, Kalkaska man arrested for construction fraud

August 25, 2025

MANISTEE — Scot Eric Latimer, 52, of Ludington, was arrested by the Manistee County Sheriff’s Office on several felony charges “following multiple complaints of construction projects where he accepted money or drew money from construction loans to perform construction work which was either never started or never completed,” said Manistee County Sheriff Brian Gutowski. According to Sheriff Gutowski, Latimer was…

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