By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. One of Mason County’s bravest passed away Monday night. Custer Fire Chief John Allison is being remembered this morning as one of the best of the best. The 51-year-old Custer Township resident had an apparent cardiac “incident” on October 8. Since that time, he had been at a Grand Rapids hospital. See previous story here. Custer…
The following is a statement from the family of Custer Fire Chief John Allison. (See related story) “On October 15th, John Allison, fire chief of the Custer Fire Department went to be with the Lord while surrounded by family and friends. He had been at Meijer Heart Center in the Spectrum Medical Center in Grand Rapids after having complications from…
UPDATED at 9:57 a.m.: Full service restored at 911. Many area residents and businesses are reporting that their phone systems are down again this morning. Last night Frontier Communications reported it had been upgrading its system when certain junctions went out. Phil Truan of Frontier said Monday night that the systems should have been restored. Many places are without phone…
Reader Julie Hathaway-Henry sent us this photograph she took Monday night of an eagle perched at the Ludington State Park.
Phone systems throughout parts of Mason County were down for several hours Monday night, beginning around 6 p.m. The problem was caused by Frontier Communications making upgrades to its system, according to Phil Truan of Frontier. He said the upgrading caused outages but the company has restored the system now. Reports came in that land lines were having issues from…
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