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#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyHealth #PereMarquetteTownship PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Mercy Health Ludington held a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday marking the official opening of its new $3.9 million, 15,000 square-foot health care facility at 5656 W. US 10, on the northwest corner of the intersection of Jebavy Drive and US 10. The new facility offers urgent care, primary care services, lab, imaging and specialty…
#MasonCountyNews #Ludington LUDINGTON — The Makers Market of Ludington and A Few Friends for the Environment of the World (AFFEW) are teaming up to turn trash into art and environmental awareness. By using debris collected from the local shoreline of Lake Michigan, the community is invited to help construct a sculpture of a lake trout, the largest native trout species…
#MasonCountyEntertainment #Ludington LUDINGTON — Tonight’s featured free movie at Rotary Park, “Minions,” is still scheduled. Concessions, selling hot dogs, bratwursts, popcorn and beverages, will open at 7 p.m. and the movie begins about 8:45 p.m.
#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the 2016 Western Michigan Fair dairy competitions:
#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the 2016 Western Michigan Fair poultry competitions:
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyPoliceNews #Fountain By Rob Alway and Allison Scarbrough. SHERMAN TOWNSHIP — Gary Dean Maccune, 2295 N. 34th Street, Sheridan Township, 25, and Louis John Metheny Jr., 37, 823 N. Benson Road, Sheridan Township have been charged with eight felonies apiece in connection with two break-ins overnight. The two were arraigned Wednesday in Mason County’s 79th District Court. The two…
#MasonCountyPeople #MasonCountyBusiness #Scottville DETROIT — Howard Vanderlaan was honored by the Michigan Funeral Directors Association for 50 years of licensure in mortuary science at its recent gathering of members in Detroit. Howard was licensed by the State of Michigan in 1966 and moved to Scottville to begin his career in funeral service. Howard began working for Lloyd Stephens at the…
#WesternMichiganFair #HomemakerOfTheYear By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — Char Etchison of Riverton Township didn’t expect to win Homemaker of the Year when she entered exhibits in the Western Michigan Fair’s open class competition. She called it an honor when she was given the award Wednesday night at the fair. Etchison made a patriotic quilt and a dragon-themed quilt…
#MasonCountyNews #MasonCountyPoliceNews HAMLIN TOWNSHIP — A GPS unit was stolen from a vehicle Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 11:42 a.m. on Barnhart Road, according to Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole. Other Mason County Sheriff’s Office activity Wednesday includes: 11:45 a.m., two-vehicle crash, no injuries, US 10-31 and Brye Road, Amber Township. 12:42 p.m,. harassment, 2400 block of Benson Road, Sheridan Township.…
#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…
#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the Western Michigan Fair open class adult exhibits:
#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the 2016 Western Michigan Fair youth exhibits.
#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the 2016 Western Michigan Fair swine competitions:
#WesternMichiganFair The following were the winners of the 2016 Western Michigan Fair goat competitions:
#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…
