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Ludington awarded outstanding planning award

July 8, 2025

LUDINGTON — The City of Ludington has been awarded the Outstanding Best Practice Planning Excellence Award by the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP), the state chapter of the American Planning Association (APA). The award recognizes Ludington’s forward-thinking and community-centered approach to zoning reform, which was recently adopted after a nearly three-year process of research, collaboration, and public engagement. According to a press release from…

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Police news, posted July 8, 2025

July 8, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com.  The following is police activity in Mason County Monday, July 7, 2025: 7:32 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, Sugar Grove Road east of US 31, Sherman Township. 8:30 a.m., (MCSO), car/deer crash, no injury, Lincoln Road north of Decker…

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Workshop to highlight inland lakes native and invasive species

July 8, 2025

LAKE COUNTY — The Mason-Lake Conservation District, Michigan State University Extension, and the Bass Lakes Area Environmental Partnership for an educational event focused on aquatic plant identification and lake management strategies. The program will teach participants how to identify both native and invasive aquatic vegetation found in Michigan’s inland lakes. A diver assisted suction harvest boat demonstration will also be…

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Mason County man killed after shootout with Border Patrol in Texas

July 7, 2025

McALLEN, Texas — A 27-year-old Pere Marquette Township man was shot dead by U.S. Border Patrol agents after opening fire with an assault rifle on a U.S. Border Patrol station in the southern Texas city of McAllen early this morning, Monday, July 7, according to news reports. Ryan Louis Mosqueda fired dozens of rounds at the entrance of the facility…

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Sports Hall of Fame raffle winners

July 7, 2025

PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — The winners of the Mason County Sports Hall of Fame $500 raffle were recently presented checks at the Mason County Historical Society’s Historic White Pine Village. The drawing was held on Saturday, June 28 at Lincoln Hills Golf Club as part of the Class of 2025 Induction Banquet. The Mason County Sports Hall of Fame is…

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