#WesternMichiganFair PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Majestic Taxidermy of Scottville received the Best Commercial Exhibit entry at the Western Michigan Fair. Mason County Farm Bureau received the Best Non-Profit Exhibit entry award.
#MasonCountyDeaths The following recent deaths have been reported to MCP from area funeral homes. Deborah Lynne Newcom, 59, of Walhalla passed away at her home on August 7, 2016. Arrangements by Oak Grove Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Ludington. Leila June Johnson, 95, of Ludington passed away Saturday, August 6, 2016. Arrangements by King Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Ludington. See…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyPoliceNews #Fountain SHERMAN TOWNSHIP — A 25-year-old Fountain man and a 37-year-old Fountain man are being charged with eight felonies apiece in connection with two break-ins overnight. “On Tuesday, Aug. 9, at approximately 11:10 p.m., Mason County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported breaking and entering to a pole building on East Mavis Road,” states a press release from…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyPoliceNews BRANCH TOWNSHIP — A 42-year-old Idlewild man was arrested by the Mason County Sheriff’s Office on three outstanding warrants and for driving while license suspended (DWLS) following a traffic stop Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 5:37 p.m. on US 10, west of Benson Road. The warrants are for contempt of court – failure to appear for operating under the…
#WesternMichiganFair By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Ray Genter grew up across the street from the Mason County Fairgrounds. His family raised geese and ducks and the fair played an important part of influencing the type of person he was to become. When he was just a boy, he tried to buy a carnival ride that was left…
#MasonCountyNews Marialice Sagan was recently elected national director for the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, one of the oldest and largest organizations of Catholic women in the Americas(www.catholicdaughters.org). She was elected at the organization’s 56th Biennial National Convention in Pittsburgh, attended by 919 members, voting delegates and clergy from across the country. As a national director, Sagan is part of…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyCourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 26-year-old man was sentenced to jail in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Aug. 9, for a conviction of failure to comply with sex offender reporting duties. Joseph Lynn Yennior, Jr. was arrested, June 4, by the Mason County Sheriff’s Office after police received an anonymous tip that he was not living at…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyPoliceNews The following is police activity Monday, Aug. 8, 2016: 6:31 a.m., (Ludington Police Department), drugs, 700 block of Maritime Drive, City of Ludington. 10:37 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), assist Free Soil Fire Department with a vehicle fire, 2500 block of East Michigan Avenue, Village of Free Soil. 12:19 p.m., (MCSO), two-vehicle crash, no injuries, M 116 near…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyCourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A 19-year-old Hesperia man currently incarcerated in prison was sentenced in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Aug. 9, to a concurrent prison term of 20 months to 15 years in prison for a conviction of breaking and entering. Steven Geno Rice III, of 4820 E. Loop Rd., was also designated as a second-offense…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyCourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — A local homeless man was sentenced in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Aug. 9, to serve nine months up front of a one-year discretionary jail term for a felony of failure to register as a sex offender. Douglas Andrew Wilson, 54, pleaded guilty to the charge last June. Wilson addressed the court, stating…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyCourtNews By Allison Scarbrough. Editor. LUDINGTON — Judge Susan K. Sniegowski told a 41-year-old Hart woman convicted of embezzling $12,000 from her employer that her actions were “reprehensible” during sentencing in 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Aug. 9. Traci Liane Ross, 41, of 415 S. Dryden St., pleaded guilty last June to embezzlement $1,000-$20,000. She stole money from Smalley Construction…