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Jaycees seeking DNR grant for mini golf.

March 9, 2015
Jaycees seeking DNR grant for mini golf.

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief.  LUDINGTON — The Ludington Area Jaycees service club is requesting the City of Ludington apply on its behalf for a $45,000 recreation passport grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for renovations at the mini golf course located at Stearns Park. The grant requires a 25 percent local match, which the Jaycees would provide. The…

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Friends of Ludington State Park receive funds from BRRRewFest.

March 9, 2015
Friends of Ludington State Park receive funds from BRRRewFest.

HAMLIN TWP. — The Friends of the Ludington State Park were presented a check in the amount of $2,500 from the Ludington Area Convention & Visitors Bureau earlier today. The funds were proceeds raised during the recent Pure Ludington BRRRewFest.  

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Training educators what to do if a gunman is in the school.

March 9, 2015
Training educators what to do if a gunman is in the school.

See video here By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. VICTORY TWP. — It’s easy to watch a school shooting on the news and think that it will never happen here. But, on a December morning in 2012, an angry Custer Twp. Fire Chief, John Allison, called newly elected Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole. Allison (who passed away in 2013) had just watched…

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Hospital to hold blood donation drives, beginning Thursday.

March 9, 2015

LUDINGTON — Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital (SHLH) will host a new series of blood donation drives, featuring a new supplier of blood to the local hospital—Michigan Blood. Like most Spectrum Health hospitals (and many others in Michigan) the system’s hospital in Ludington has contracted with Grand Rapids-based Michigan Blood to be its primary source for all blood supplies. “While we…

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When is national uniformity needed?

March 8, 2015
When is national uniformity needed?

The Mitten Memo. A blog by Nick Krieger. Did you get enough sleep last night?  Go ahead and grab another cup of coffee.  By now you know that Daylight Saving Time began early this morning at 2 a.m.  With any luck you remembered to set your clocks ahead by one hour before going to bed.  If you didn’t, you may…

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