News

Payment takes on new role at chamber

January 17, 2014
Payment takes on new role at chamber

LUDINGTON — Downtown Ludington businesswoman Megan Payment has been hired full-time as the Ludington & Scottville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Event Coordinator. Payment replaces Kristen O’Hare who is leaving the chamber for a job in Grand Rapids. Payment has worked in various capacities at the chamber since 2008. Since early 2013 she has worked part time as a marketing/communications assistant…

Read more »

Cancellations

January 16, 2014

This posting contains cancellations for Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. As it is updated we will also post the indivual cancellations on our Facebook and Twitter pages: – Scottville Youth Wrestling practice is cancelled. – Ludington JV girls and boys basketball at Orchard View cancelled. If you need to report a cancellation, and can speak officially for the company or organization…

Read more »

Ludington man arrested for no driver’s license following crash

January 16, 2014
Ludington man arrested for no driver’s license following crash

A 31-year-old Ludington man was arrested Wednesday following a traffic crash in Summit Township. Mason County sheriff deputies were called to the intersection of Pere Marquette Highway and Mesenheimer Road at 1:27 p.m. for a two vehicle broadside crash, no injuries. One of the drivers, a 31-year-old man, was arrested for driving without a license/never applied. Other activity of the…

Read more »

More details emerge in Dennis Road shooting

January 15, 2014
More details emerge in Dennis Road shooting

By Lisa Enos. MCP Correspondent.  AMBER TWP. — Authorities have confirmed that the weapon that former Mason County Eastern teacher William Marble was holding when he was shot by a Michigan Sate Police trooper Tuesday night was a semi automatic hand gun. According to 1st Lt. Kevin Leavitt, commanding officer of the Hart MSP post, dispatchers received more than one…

Read more »

Rescuers save horses from frozen pond

January 15, 2014
Rescuers save horses from frozen pond

By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief.  RIVERTON TWP. — Katlin Hammond knew something was wrong when she looked out the back window of her boyfriend’s house, at 2520 W. Meisenheimer Road, this afternoon and didn’t see her two horses Shelby and Bella. She went out to the barn, a few feet from the house and the horses weren’t there. Hammond’s first instinct…

Read more »