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FFA: Cultivating young minds

April 16, 2015
FFA: Cultivating young minds

By Sydney Scarbrough. Contributing Writer. HART — A Future Farmers of America (FFA) program that sprouted two years ago for students in three local schools has blossomed into a program that covers three counties. Hart-West Shore FFA is in another year at Hart High School and continues to grow in advancements, enrollment and projects. West Shore Educational Service District (ESD) largely…

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Fish On for Freedom will honor veterans with free fishing.

April 15, 2015
Fish On for Freedom will honor veterans with free fishing.

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — A newly formed non-profit organization is paying tribute to veterans by offering a free fishing day on Lake Michigan. Fish On for Freedom will be held on June 25. It is open to any veteran of the Armed Forces. “This is just another way for our community to say thank you to our veterans,”…

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Tobacco sales enforcement campaign to begin.

April 15, 2015

District Health Department #10 has partnered with the Michigan State Police and Lakeshore Regional Partners to conduct a tobacco compliance campaign called No Cigs for Our Kids. Over the next several months, undercover tobacco compliance checks will be completed at all tobacco vendors throughout Oceana, Lake, and Mason counties. The campaign is intended to educate vendors about the current law…

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Car-deer crashes increase

April 15, 2015
Car-deer crashes increase

The police news is sponsored by VanderHaag Car Sales of Scottville, 231-757-2727, www.vanderhaagcarsales.com and Springstead Law Offices, with locations in Hart and Fremont, 231-873-4022 (Hart),www.springsteadlaw.com. The following is local law enforcement activity from Tuesday, April 14, 2015: – 1:50 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injuries, US-31 and Free Soil, Grant Twp. – 7:20 a.m., (MCSO), car/deer crash,…

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Flags lowered in memory of Lincoln assassination.

April 15, 2015

LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder has joined President Barack Obama’s call for all United States Flags to be lowered to half-staff on Wednesday, April 15 as a day of remembrance for President Abraham Lincoln. The day marks the 150th anniversary of the day the nation’s 16th president died. “We do not lack for reminders of President Lincoln’s actions, which will…

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