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MCC superintendent talks about Friday’s bus red tags

June 3, 2013

SCOTTVILLE — Mason County Central Schools Superintendent Jeff Mount confirmed this morning that several MCC buses were “red tagged” last week during a Michigan Department of Transportation inspection. The tagging caused the school district to re-route some bus routes and to borrow buses from neighboring school districts. Most tags were minor, however. “We have a new bus inspector that takes…

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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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