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44th WSCC commencement is Friday

April 28, 2014
44th WSCC commencement is Friday

VICTORY TWP. – Nearly 200 West Shore Community College students are eligible to receive degrees and certificates at the college’s 44th commencement ceremony to be held on Friday, May 2, at 7 p.m. in the College’s Recreation Center Arena. Speakers for the event will be Guy Smith, president of the Student Senate, WSCC Faculty Association president and Professor of Philosophy Dr. Matthew Sanderson,…

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COVE groundbreaking Tuesday

April 28, 2014

LUDINGTON — COVE (Communities Overcoming Violent Encounters) will hold a groundbreaking Tuesday at 10 a.m. at its new location, 906 E. Ludington Ave. The organization is raising funds to construct a new facility in Ludington to replace the 112 year-old house that serves as the COVE shelter and the small, 36 year-old modular office building. COVE needs to raise $2.4 million for…

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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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