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How you can help us cover the Trooper Butterfield murder trial

February 13, 2014
How you can help us cover the Trooper Butterfield murder trial

A PayPal donation button is located on top of the advertising sidebar here at www.MasonCountyPress.com. Dear Readers: Next week, Eric Knysz will go on trial in 51st Circuit Court for the Sept. 9, 2013 murder of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul Butterfield. This trial is expected to last nine days. Mason County Press was the first news organization to break…

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Research vessel will be in Ludington harbor next week

February 13, 2014
Research vessel will be in Ludington harbor next week

Fishermen urged to use caution. The oceanographic research vessel R/V Sikuliaq will be in Ludington harbor next week performing sea trials. During that time, the vessel will be breaking ice through the Ludington channel to its destination at the OxyChem dock. The vessel is expected to arrive from Marinette, Wis. on Feb. 17 and will be in and out of…

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Firefighter rescues girlfriend from the flu…

February 13, 2014
Firefighter rescues girlfriend from the flu…

Harris-Walton. An engagement story. Samantha Danielle Harris and Tyler John Walton, both of Ludington, will get married on October 18, 2014 at Mason County Reformed Church in Amber Township. Tyler didn’t let a little flu stop him from asking Samantha to marry him. “I was extremely sick with the flu and had fallen asleep,” Samantha recalls. “Tyler said he needed…

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Man arrested for road rage

February 12, 2014
Man arrested for road rage

PERE MARQUETTE TWP. — A 43-year-old Chase man was arrested by Mason County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday on the charge of road rage/reckless driving. The arrest occurred at 7:53 a.m. near the intersection of U.S. 10 and Pere Marquette Hwy. The man allegedly drove into another vehicle following a dispute on the roadway. In a separate incident, deputies arrested a 25-year-old…

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Former Jewelry store employee sentenced for embezzlement

February 11, 2014
Former Jewelry store employee sentenced for embezzlement

LUDINGTON — A former employee of Closson’s Jewelry was sentenced today for embezzling from the downtown Ludington business. Renee Lyne Hansen, 47, of Ludington was appeared in 51st Circuit Court where she received a sentence of up to one year in the Mason County jail, serving six months up front. Earlier this year she pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $100,000…

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