PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas have an opportunity to secure $5,000 in startup funds by participating in the seventh Momentum 5×5 Pitch Competition, which makes its return to on Monday, August 11. All applications are due by July 11. From all entries, five finalists will be selected to present their business ideas to a panel of…
The Mason County Sports Hall of Fame has announced the recipients of the 2025 Life Lesson Awards, two from each of the county public high schools. Alex Tyndall and Lucy Shoup of Mason County Eastern High School, Nyvaeh Wendt and Jaxon Munoz from Mason County Central High School, and Reese Willis and Maksim “Maks” Flanery from Ludington High School, each…
The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is activity of the Mason County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday, June 25, 2025: 10:06 a.m., a 48-year-old Ludington man was cited for driving while license suspended following a traffic stop, US 10 and Jebavy Drive, Pere Marquette Township. 8:20 p.m., a 52-year-old…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 27-year-old Ludington man who briefly escaped from police custody at the Mason County Courthouse last fall was sentenced to three prison terms in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, June 24. Jesse Allen Totten pleaded guilty last April in three files to charges of: escape awaiting trial for a felony, meth possession,…
By Alan Neushwander, Contributing Writer LUDINGTON — The following were recently arraigned in Mason County’s 79th District Court: Felonies -Katie Marie Wicks, 34; third-degree child abuse and assault with a dangerous weapon; arrested May 16 by Mason County Sheriff’s Office; arraigned June 19; preliminary hearing: July 9; bail: $5,000 personal recognizance. -Gavin David Newman, 25; delivery/manufacturing a controlled substance —…
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