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CMH lays off staff due to budget cuts.

May 15, 2015
CMH lays off staff due to budget cuts.

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — A drop in funding has meant that the administration at West Michigan Community Mental Health (WMCMH) has had to make some tough choices recently. The most recent choices have involved the reduction of personnel but not a reduction in service, according to the agency’s director. “We have seen two consecutive years of Medicaid reductions,…

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Scottville Police Dept. says it was in contact with school during manhunt.

May 15, 2015

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. SCOTTVILLE — The Scottville Police Department followed emergency protocols during the police manhunt Thursday afternoon, Chief Don Riley said. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office was called to 532 W. Hansen Road in Amber Township at 11:30 a.m. Thursday for a report of a home invasion involving a firearm in progress. Upon arriving within 2 minutes of…

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Obituary: Nancy Brooks, 84, Ludington.

May 15, 2015
Obituary: Nancy Brooks, 84, Ludington.

Nancy Ann Brooks, 84 of Ludington, died peacefully on Monday, May 11, 2015 at Willowbrook Care Home in Scottville.  Nancy was born on May 26, 1930 in Olney, Illinois, the daughter of Isaac and Dora (Prather) Kesler, and graduated from Olney High School with the class of 1948.  On August 8, 1949 she married her high school sweetheart, Kenneth Brooks…

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Recent death, May 15, 2015.

May 15, 2015

Charles E. Eldon, 78, of Ludington died Wednesday, May 13, 2015.  Arrangements by Wyman Funeral & Cremation Services – Stephens Funeral Home, Scottville. List of 2015 deaths on record. 

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MCC superintendent says school wasn’t notified of Hansen Road incident.

May 14, 2015

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. SCOTTVILLE — While law enforcement was looking for two suspects involved in an armed home invasion on Hansen Road, just west of U.S. 31 Thursday afternoon, Mason County Central Schools operated pretty much business as usual. Superintendent Jeff Mount said had he been aware of the situation, just one mile directly north of the school, earlier,…

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