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Wedding of the dead

October 28, 2015
Wedding of the dead

  By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — Jennifer Hornacek and Arturo Mendez of Ludington wanted to do something different for their wedding ceremony. They accomplished it Wednesday afternoon with a wedding of the dead. The ceremony took place at The Haunted Eclectic Marketplace, 307 S. James St. with the perhaps irreverent Dan “Danny V” Vargus officiating. The “late” bride was…

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Alleged Branch Grocery robber arraigned. 

October 28, 2015
Alleged Branch Grocery robber arraigned. 

By Allison Scarbrough, Contributing Editor. LUDINGTON — The 41-year-old Muskegon man accused of committing the armed robbery at the Branch Grocery in eastern Mason County last December was arraigned last week in 79th District Court on six felony counts. Mark Anthony Miller pleaded no contest to the armed robberies of four Muskegon area businesses last September and guilty to being…

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Missing woman found; 8 car/deer crashes

October 28, 2015
Missing woman found; 8 car/deer crashes

The police news is sponsored by Benedict-Shilander Collision, now located at 5851 W. U.S. 10 behind Family Video; 231-843-4181 and Springstead Law Offices, with locations in Hart and Fremont, 231-873-4022 (Hart), www.springsteadlaw. AMBER TWP. — The Mason County Sheriff’s Office was searching for a 48-year-old woman who last seen at 4 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in her room at a…

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A haunted house wedding.

October 27, 2015

LUDINGTON — A wedding will take place at The Haunted Eclectic Marketplace, 307 S. James St. Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at 4:30 p.m. The wedding was planned after a local couple approached Dan Vargas, AKA Danny V, a WMOM radio personality, disc jockey and officiant. Vargas said the couple was looking for something non-traditional so he suggested the haunted marketplace,…

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Scottville Upper Elementary students learn what to do in case of intruder.

October 27, 2015
Scottville Upper Elementary students learn what to do in case of intruder.

By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. SCOTTVILLE — Students and staff at Mason County Central’s Scottville Upper Elementary School learned steps on what to do in case of an intruder at the school during a special day of training Monday, Oct. 26. The students learned about ALICE, an acronym that stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. Scenarios, taught by Mason…

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