LUDINGTON — The Mason County Western Fire District’s request for a 20 year renewal of .3 mill passed Tuesday night by voters in the City of Ludington, Hamlin Township and Pere Marquette Township: 3,154 yes and 826 no. The levy raises about $275,000 a year to fund the purchase and upkeep of apparatus for Ludington, Hamlin and Pere Marquette fire…
By Allison Scarbrough. Courts/Police Editor. LUDINGTON — A 49-year-old Ludington man was sentenced to a minimum of one-and-a-half years in prison Tuesday, March 8, in 51st Circuit Court for pulling out a knife during a bar fight last summer. Eric Lee Gillespie, of 222 E. Melendy St., pleaded “no contest” to felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapon last December. Judge…
By Allison Scarbrough. Courts/Police Editor. LUDINGTON — A 19-year-old Ludington man who pleaded guilty in 51st Circuit Court last month to safe breaking and resisting a police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday, March 8, to larceny in a building and possession with intent to deliver marijuana. Trenton Joseph Espinola, of 222 E. Melendy St., testified Tuesday that he stole approximately six…
By Allison Scarbrough. Courts/Police Editor. LUDINGTON — A 29-year-old Amber Township man pleaded “no contest” Tuesday, March 8, in 51st Circuit Court to a felony of receiving and concealing stolen firearms, and in exchange for his plea faces serving seven months up front of a one-year discretionary jail term. Phillip Edward Roberts, Jr., of 184 N. Gordon Rd. was arrested…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — City Council is considering selling the city’s fire station along with the parking lot to the east of it. John Wilson of Morris Street, LLC and developer Bob Jacobson have been working with the city to develop a mixed use development in that area, which would include the old bowling alley and old NAPA…
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