MASON COUNTY — ITC will conduct aerial patrols of high-voltage transmission structures, lines and equipment in Michigan through mid-November. The helicopter patrols provide an overall status of vegetation management and maintenance needs of the overhead transmission system. Separate patrols will take place for vegetation and maintenance monitoring. The aerial inspections will cover nearly all of the Lower Peninsula. In Mason…
LUDINGTON — The Ludington Petunia Parade has exceeded its fundraising goal to purchase a newer watering truck used to maintain more than 32,400 petunias planted throughout the city each year. The Petunia Parade board launched the Watering Truck Capital Campaign to replace its existing truck with a newer, more reliable vehicle capable of handling daily watering during the growing season.…
PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Historic White Pine Village will host a Michigan Logging Encampment from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. The event will feature lumbering and logging activities highlighting Michigan’s late 19th-century logging era. Costumed educators from the Traveling Lumberjack and Logging Museum will demonstrate the tools and techniques used by lumbermen and share information about daily…
The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is Mason County Sheriff’s Office activity over the weekend: Friday, Sept. 11, 2026: 5:30 a.m., car/deer crash, no injury, Schoenherr Road north of Hansen Road, Branch Township. 1:56 p.m., two-vehicle, head-on crash, US 10 and Walhalla Road, Branch Township. A 66-year-old…
RIVERTON TOWSHIP — The Mason County Sheriff’s Office will offer a free community safety training program Monday, Sept. 21, focusing on how to respond during violent incidents. The “Surviving Violent Incidents” program will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Church Activity Center, 3212 W. Kinney Road. Sheriff’s deputies will discuss recognizing potential threats, situational awareness,…
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