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Remembering

May 26, 2025

Photos by Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief FREE SOIL TOWNSHIP — The Custer VFW Gold Bar Post 5096 honored fallen soldiers and sailors Monday with four services. The morning began with a service at Mason County Central High School in Scottville, then Riverside Cemetery in Custer Township, Maple Grove Cemetery in Free Soil Township and concluded at the Michigan State Police Trooper…

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Remembering the Leveaux brothers, who gave their lives during WWI

May 26, 2025

Editor’s Note: Several holidays exist to honor our veterans and active duty military personnel, Veterans Day on Nov. 11, and Armed Forces Day, May 17. But, Memorial Day is set aside to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. In today’s article, we remember two brothers from Mason County who died serving our country during World War…

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Honor Roll of Mason County military personnel who died in war

May 26, 2025

Civil War Charles F. Stewart World War I John Benjamin Adams Frank F. Allen John Albert Anderson Fredric C. Bertelsen John F. Borski Russel C. Bozell Louis Brozzo Eric Carlson Gordon Chadwick Carl Christensen Alvia R. Drabenstopt Dezerei A. Duplessis Edwin Harold Ewing Anton Frye Edwin Glynn August Gorski Joseph Hall John Hanson Milburn Hawkes Floyd James Harington R. D.…

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Photo feature: 63rd Fountain Horse Pull

May 26, 2025

Photos by Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief Around the County is a presentation of Preferred Credit Union, www.preferredcu.org, located locally at 266 N. Jebavy Dr., Ludington. FOUNTAIN — Thousands showed up in Fountain Sunday for the 63rd Fountain Horse Pull. The event included multiple horse pulling teams along with food and vendors.   __________ Please Support Local News Receive daily MCP and OCP…

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Sheriff Cole addresses Rolling Thunder Annual Ride for Freedom at Capitol

May 26, 2025

LANSING — Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole was the featured speaker Sunday, May 25, during the Rolling Thunder Annual Ride for Freedom gathering at the Michigan Capitol. The gathering honored families of prisoners of war, military personnel missing in action and Gold Star families. Joining Sheriff Cole was Ludington High School student Sawyer Henrickson of Miss Sawyer’s Kids with a…

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