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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2016
Happy New Year!

  LUDINGTON — For those who were unable to watch it on Facebook, here is the video of the downtown Ludington New Year’s Eve ball drop and fireworks display.

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Makers Market will be a place to share creativity.

December 31, 2015
Makers Market will be a place to share creativity.

Open house tonight. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — When Erica Karmeisool moved to Ludington in 2005, she was living in a 900 square foot condominium with no place to put her woodworking tools and certainly no place to actually work with the tools. “I really started thinking about creating a space where people who were in the same circumstance…

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United Way accepting requests for proposals from non-profits.

December 31, 2015
United Way accepting requests for proposals from non-profits.

LUDINGTON — United Way of Mason County is accepting request for proposals (RFPs) for the 2016-2017 funding cycle (April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017) from local non-profit organizations that are focusing on helping children to achieve their potential and working with individuals and families to be financially stable and independent and improving people’s health.      The RFP document can…

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Lights and Love Tree.

December 30, 2015
Lights and Love Tree.

LUDINGTON — Filled with Love. The Lights and Love Tree at Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital glows with lights honoring and remembering loved ones. ”Community support filled the tree with lights just before Christmas,”Kaley Petersen, foundation director, said. “We so appreciate joining with families throughout the area for these tributes to those they hold dear. The contributions they made to place…

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Free bus rides, tows again being offered on New Year’s Eve.

December 30, 2015
Free bus rides, tows again being offered on New Year’s Eve.

LUDINGTON — Downtown New Year’s Eve celebrators will again be offered the alternative of free rides and towing. Since 2003 the New Year’s Eve Drive Safe Drive Sober effort has provided 8,761 free rides to Mason County residents and visitors.  Of that number 148 had their vehicles towed free of charge.  Prior to 2003 Abrahamson’s Towing and Quinn’s Tires & Tows offered…

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