SCOTTVILLE — Think spring, like this prairie crabapple tree (malus ioensis) being featured on the Mason-Lake Conservation District’s annual spring tree sale fundraiser order form. This tree’s showy flowers are great at attracting bees for pollinating fruit trees and garden fruits and vegetables. Its plentiful golf-ball size fruits are great for wildlife like deer, rabbits, upland birds and even foxes. New for…
LUDINGTON — Three suspects were arrested for separate assault-related incidents of Mason County Sheriff’s deputies over the weekend. The first incident resulted in the arrest of an 18-year-old Ludington man for resisting and opposing a police officer following a 911 call reporting a disturbance inside the Ludington Public Library Saturday, March 12, at 12:28 p.m. A Mason County Sheriff’s deputy,…
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and offers a perfect opportunity to talk to your doctor and ask yourself, as well as family and friends, if it is time to be screened for colorectal cancer screening. While colorectal cancer remains the nation’s second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths for men and women, it can be prevented if detected at an…
VICTORY TOWNSHIP — West Shore Community College has invited an expert to campus to speak on one of the themes of the recent play, “Breaking the Code.” The play tells the real-life story of Alan Turing, a famous mathematician who in 1952 was arrested and chemically castrated because of his homosexuality. Students had questions: how have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…
LUDINGTON — An intoxicated kayaker who apparently was harassing fishermen along the pier Saturday night has ended up in jail after fleeing conservation officers in a kayak and then later allegedly punching a sheriff’s deputy. Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole said a Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer received a complaint Saturday night of an intoxicated man harassing fishermen…
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