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Coming home: ‘There are so many things here that bring me simple joy’

April 28, 2014
Coming home: ‘There are so many things here that bring me simple joy’

Paula Jury Jarvis didn’t want her daughter to walk through metal detectors at school. Many people have traveled the world and have had life experiences that their hometowns could never offer them, but many of those people are choosing to leave those grand ventures behind to move back to their roots in search of a slower paced lifestyle. Mason County…

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Leelanau Landscapes at the art center

April 28, 2014
Leelanau Landscapes at the art center

LUDINGTON – Ludington Area Center for the Arts opens a new exhibit in its Main Gallery on Friday, May 2.  Artist Carolyn Damstra will be displaying her “Recent Paintings of the Leelanau Peninsula”.  This exhibit is scheduled to run through June, removed only briefly the first weekend of June for the Lighthouse Festival Arts & Crafts Show. Damstra is an…

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Ludington’s cold water challenge: The Lake Jump

April 28, 2014
Ludington’s cold water challenge: The Lake Jump

Raising funds for Mason County Veterans Endowment Fund. By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief.  LUDINGTON — The latest viral trend going around social media is the cold water challenge, where moments before a person jumps into a body of cold water they shout out the names of three people they’d like to challenge to do the same. Ludington has had its own cold…

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Firefighters save Free Soil barn

April 28, 2014
Firefighters save Free Soil barn

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief.  FREE SOIL — Strong wind gusts never make firefighting easy. However, firefighters were able to quickly extinguish a barn fire on North U.S. 31 Monday morning before too much damage was caused. Free Soil/Meade and Fountain fire departments were called to the scene between Townline and Freeman roads around 9:45 a.m. Within a few minutes they…

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Know the symptoms of autism

April 28, 2014

Renew. Rebuild. Recover. A blog written by the staff of West Michigan Community Mental Health. In honor of Autism Awareness Month, we reprint this information from the Autism Society of America (http://www.autism-society.org/). Autism Prevalence Rates Increase According to CDC, Autism Society Responds Bethesda, MD (March 27, 2014) – Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announce new autism…

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