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Ludington’s Bat Man saves baby

June 2, 2013

Submitted by Tom Oele of Ludington.  Tonight our pest control guy, Bill Hogenson, is clearing our house of bats on Filer Street. He and his partner hear a woman screaming across the street and run over there where they find a baby who is turning purple and choking. He looks around and finds a turkey baster and saves the kid.…

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Friday night movies in Scottville: “Brave,” “Mickey Matson,” “Oz”

June 2, 2013
Friday night movies in Scottville: “Brave,” “Mickey Matson,” “Oz”

 SCOTTVILLE – The Scottville Clown Band Shell will host three free movies this summer in its Friday Night Movies at the Shell series. The movies include “Brave,” “The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure” and “Oz: The Great and Powerful.” “Brave” will debut the movie series at sunset on July 26, followed by “Mickey Matson” on Aug. 2…

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Soil conservation plant sales, river clean up

June 2, 2013

SCOTTVILLE — The Mason-Lake Soil Conservation District is currently holding an adopt-a-tree sale. Administrator Jordan DeVries said several local nurseries are offering seedlings and transplants at an 80 percent discount. “Because this cool spring gave them a lot of cancellations, they have about 20,000 trees that will be thrown out once their coolers warm up,” DeVries said. “They have to…

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MCC parents ask what’s going on with buses

May 31, 2013

SCOTTVILLE — Mason County Press has received questions from several readers of why some Mason County Central Schools bus routes were re-routed Friday. Several parents report their students were picked up by buses from either Ludington Area Schools or the West Shore Educational School District. A bus driver from one of the other districts told MCP that several MCC buses…

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1 injured in Riverton crash

May 31, 2013
1 injured in Riverton crash

RIVERTON TWP. — The 20-year-old driver of a Ford Probe was transported by Life EMS ambulance to Memorial Medical Center in Ludington following a two car crash at the intersection of Hawley and Morton roads Friday evening. Riverton Twp. Fire Chief Joe Cooper said the car passed his Morton Road house — about a half mile south of the intersection…

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