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Sheriff’s office creates jail administrator position, eliminates adm. sgt. 

March 14, 2018

Sheriff’s office creates jail administrator position, eliminates adm. sgt.  #MasonCountyNews By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON —The Mason County Sheriff’s Office has eliminated the administrative sergeant position and replaced the job with a jail administrator position. A request by Sheriff Kim Cole was approved Tuesday by the Mason County Board of Commissioners. The sergeant position was a union job while the administrative…

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Crashes on slippery roads keep police busy.

March 14, 2018

Crashes on slippery roads keep police busy. #MasonCountyPoliceNews The following is Mason County Sheriff’s Office activity Tuesday, March 13, 2018: – 2:26 a.m., one-vehicle rollover crash, no injury, Chauvez Road near Morton Road, Riverton Township. – 7:47 a.m., two-vehicle crash, no injury, Lakeshore Drive, Hamlin Township. – 8:28 a.m., two-vehicle crash, no injury, US 31 and Sugar Grove Road, Victory…

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Teen sentenced for attempting to accost child.

March 13, 2018

Teen sentenced for attempting to accost child. #MasonCountyCrime. By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — An 18-year-old Ludington man was sentenced to serve five months up front of a one-year discretionary jail term for convictions of attempted accosting a child for immoral purposes and harboring a runaway Tuesday, March 13, in 51st Circuit Court. Jesus Maria Chavez, of 603 S. Washington…

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Right to Life oratory contest winners.

March 13, 2018

Right to Life oratory contest winners. LUDINGTON — The winners of the Mason/Manistee Pro-Life Oratory Contest, sponsored by Mason County Right to Life and Right to Life of Manistee County, were recently announced. Winners were: First place, Logan Miller, 11th grade, home school student from Manistee County ($100 prize); second place: Adrianna Malburg, 10th grader from Mason County Eastern High…

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Muskegon man sent to prison for drunken rampage with police.

March 13, 2018

Muskegon man sent to prison for drunken rampage with police. #MasonCountyCrime By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — A 60-year-old Muskegon man who went on an alcohol-fueled rampage while fleeing from police last September was sentenced to two to seven-and-a-half years in prison for several felony convictions in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, March 13. Mark Allen Wemple, of 2528 E. Broadway…

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