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Scottville Main Street’s future may be limited due to tax collection error.

May 11, 2015
Scottville Main Street’s future may be limited due to tax collection error.

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. SCOTTVILLE — The Scottville Main Street portion of the city’s Downtown Development Authority may cease to exist after June due to an error in distribution of its funds. The DDA is a specially assessed part of the city’s central business district. Typically, Scottville property owners pay taxes that are distributed into millages for the city, the…

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Scottville approves millage, second time around.

May 11, 2015

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. SCOTTVILLE — City Commission approved the 2015-2016 city budget Monday during a special meeting. The meeting was called because commissioners found discrepancies in the budget during the commissions regular meeting last Monday. Among those discrepancies was an approximate $12,000 error under the line item of “city hall.” City Manager Amy Williams said the error was due…

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Drunk driving trial against state trooper begins.

May 11, 2015
Drunk driving trial against state trooper begins.

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — The 79th District Court trial of the City of Ludington vs. Sammy Seymour began this morning. Seymour, a Michigan State Police trooper, was arrested on Jan. 17, 2015, by Ludington Police Dept. and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. A six person jury, consisting of three men and three women, was seated for…

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Sexual assault in the woods

May 11, 2015
Sexual assault in the woods

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. PERE MARQUETTE TWP. — A 36-year-old Ludington man was arrested by the Mason County Sheriff’s Office for fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct Saturday, May 9, at 12:39 p.m. following a disturbance in a wooded area off…

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Missing Ludington man identified as body found in river.

May 11, 2015
Missing Ludington man identified as body found in river.

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. LOGAN TWP. — Leonard Allen Vunck has been identified as the man who was found dead in the river Friday night, according to the Michigan State Police. Vunck, 67, of Ludington, had been missing since October 2014, when he hired a taxi to pick him up from his home at Pineview Apartments and to drive him out…

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