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Local business and environmental group to construct trash sculpture from beach garbage.

August 11, 2016
Local business and environmental group to construct trash sculpture from beach garbage.

#MasonCountyNews #Ludington LUDINGTON — The Makers Market of Ludington and A Few Friends for the Environment of the World (AFFEW) are teaming up to turn trash into art and environmental awareness. By using debris collected from the local shoreline of Lake Michigan, the community is invited to help construct a sculpture of a lake trout, the largest native trout species…

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Fair dairy winners.

August 11, 2016
Fair dairy winners.

#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the 2016 Western Michigan Fair dairy competitions:

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Fountain men arraigned for B&E’s.

August 11, 2016
Fountain men arraigned for B&E’s.

#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyPoliceNews #Fountain By Rob Alway and Allison Scarbrough. SHERMAN TOWNSHIP — Gary Dean Maccune, 2295 N. 34th Street, Sheridan Township, 25, and Louis John Metheny Jr., 37, 823 N. Benson Road, Sheridan Township have been charged with eight felonies apiece in connection with two break-ins overnight. The two were arraigned Wednesday in Mason County’s 79th District Court. The two…

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Vanderlaan honored for 50 years of mortuary service.

August 11, 2016
Vanderlaan honored for 50 years of mortuary service.

#MasonCountyPeople #MasonCountyBusiness #Scottville DETROIT — Howard Vanderlaan was honored by the Michigan Funeral Directors Association for 50 years of licensure in mortuary science at its recent gathering of members in Detroit.  Howard was licensed by the State of Michigan in 1966 and moved to Scottville to begin his career in funeral service.  Howard began working for Lloyd Stephens at the…

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Etchison is Homemaker of the Year.

August 11, 2016
Etchison is Homemaker of the Year.

#WesternMichiganFair #HomemakerOfTheYear By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Char Etchison of Riverton Township didn’t expect to win Homemaker of the Year when she entered exhibits in the Western Michigan Fair’s open class competition. She called it an honor when she was given the award Wednesday night at the fair. Etchison made a patriotic quilt and a dragon-themed quilt…

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