LUDINGTON — The Grandparents/Kinship Families Group of Mason County will be having a meet up at Stearns Park picnic area on Tuesday August 25th from 6 to 7:30 p.m. There will be a sign identifying the exact location. The purpose of this meeting is to bring those families who are raising another family member’s child together as a group who share common experiences. If…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. VICTORY TOWNSHIP — Agricultural education in this area is seeing a resurgence. The West Shore Educational Service District is expanding it agricultural science program to Mason County while West Shore Community College is in talks with Michigan State University to provide an agricultural technology program here. Beginning this fall, the ESD’s Career Technology Education (CTE) program…
Jessie Colin Reid, the Custer Township teen who has been missing since Saturday, August 15, has been found and is safe, his mother, Katie Drake said. “He showed up at a relatives house in town. He’s safe and unharmed but hungry and glad to feel safe again. He said he’s sorry he worried everyone and that he made a poor decision.”…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — The legacy of Justus Stearns runs deep in Ludington and the surrounding area. At the turn of the 19th century, Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, he would own…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. CUSTER TOWNSHIP — Katie Drake is worried about her missing 15-year-old son. Jessie Colin Reid ran away after the Western Michigan Fair Saturday, August 15, and hasn’t been seen since. “We haven’t heard from him or anything about his whereabouts,” Katie said. “He has taken off before because he was mad and didn’t want to…
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