PERE MARQUETTE TWP. — A 12-year-old boy is in DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids as a result of a near-drowning at Poncho’s Pond Saturday afternoon. Emergency personnel were called to the scene after Seth Sevenski-Pompa of Hopkins, Mich. did not resurface after going under water. He was pulled from the water by other members of his group. He was…
AMBER TWP. — An 88-year-old man was hospitalized Sunday following a traffic crash on U.S. 10-31 near Quarterline Road. According to the Mason County Sheriff’s Office, the Manistee man made a left turn from west U.S. 10-31 onto Quarterline Road into the path of an east-bound vehicle. The 88-year-old man was airlifted from the scene to Spectrum Hospital in Grand…
The Mason County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate three motorists who are overdue from their expected arrival time. Shirley Brunson, 78, and her husband William Brunson, 92, left Detroit at 7:50 a.m. Sunday en-route to their daughter’s house in Free Soil. They are travelling with their 43-year-old son, William, who is mentally disabled. The Brunsons are driving a red…
GRANT TWP. — A military flare shell washed up on a northern Mason County beach was discovered earlier today resulted in the Michigan State Police bomb squad responding, along with fire and police personnel. Grant Twp. Fire Chief Ron Melchert described the shell as 4- or 6-inches. His department was dispatched around noon after a resident found the shell and…
FREE SOIL – Several MCP readers have commented on a recent story regarding the all school reunion scheduled for Saturday, June 22 at the old Free Soil school complex (see story here). The comments center around whether drinking will be allowed on the school grounds. A reader warned that if drinking was to take place during the gathering that people…
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