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B-flat with Bruce: Arriving in Scottville part 2

February 15, 2012
B-flat with Bruce: Arriving in Scottville part 2

  By BRUCE MILLER mcp.com columnist   While living south of Custer, we were associated with the Sugar Ridge Church of the Brethren.  This is the kind of place where a lot of people are eager to run from. Not me ! I learned so many things from the locals that I would never have heard otherwise. There was a…

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Tuesday Night Therapy

February 13, 2012
Tuesday Night Therapy

  By CARMELITTA TIFFANY mcp.com columnist   It may be called an all-American pastime, but to me, it’s much more than that.   Every Tuesday night, five middle-aged ladies congregate at a local venue to throw a big plastic ball at ten two-foot tall pins. We’re called the Jensen Construction team, and we usually struggle to stay off the last…

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Details released on kidnap suspect’s arrest

February 13, 2012

By ROB ALWAY mcp.com editor   The Mason County Sheriff’s Office is starting to release details on how law enforcement agencies were able to locate and arrest Mark Allan McCallum, who is charged with parental kidnapping.   The 52-year-old Hamlin Township resident was wanted by law enforcement after he failed to return his 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter Thursday to…

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14-year-old dies in Sunday accident

February 13, 2012

PERE MARQUETTE TWP. — A 14-year-old Lansing boy was killed as a result of a traffic crash Sunday morning on U.S. 10 east of Pere Marqette highway. A vehicle had stopped in the center lane of U.S. 10 and Darius Vanbrook exited the vehicle and began to cross the eastbound lanes where he was struck by a pick-up truck driven…

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Children safe, father arrested

February 12, 2012

Hamlin Township resident Mark McCallum is in custody and his two children are safe today. Mason County Sheriff Jeff Fiers told the mcp.com that McCallum was arrested in Key West, Fla. this afternoon where he was found with Douglas McCallum, 4, and Shelby McCallum, 2.   The children were reported missing Thursday after Mark McCallum did not show up for…

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