Goodells News

Kids who will be in first through sixth grade in the fall can register for a Summer Nature Club at the Pine River Nature Center in Goodells.

"Radio Hams" from St. Clair County join in national deployment Public Demo of Emergency Communications June 27 - 28 Port Huron, MI June 18th, 2009 Your Town's "hams" will join with thousands of Amateur Radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend.

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department Drug Task Force made the largest methamphetamine bust in county history Wednesday night, police said.

State funding for Amtrak's Blue Water Line could be cut. Our first two callers don't want that to happen.

Goodells County Park will host a Drug Task Force auction this weekend. The auction will feature a wide variety of products, said John Tomaschko, owner of Mid-Thumb Auctioneering which is conducting the auction.

Students at John F. Farrell-Emmett Elementary School skipped school Friday and headed to the park -- but still had a day of learning.

Making safety seem fun is quite the endeavor. But Karen Zultak of the St. Clair County Safe Kids Chapter entertained more than 700 children with helpful lifestyle hints Wednesday at the second annual Spring Safety Extravaganza at the Great Lakes Seaway Terminal in Port Huron.

Bob Fochtman climbed off the path at the Fort Gratiot Natural Reserve and Walking Trail and headed toward a large, dead tree that had fallen.

Our next monthly meeting will be on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Port Huron Museum, 115 Sixth St., Port Huron.

Like many locations throughout southeast Michigan, Lakeport State Park has seen trees lost to the emerald ash borer, an insect that destroys ash trees.

The death of former Detroit Tiger pitcher Mark Fidrych Monday was a shock. His rookie season in 1976 was remarkable.

The seventh annual St. Clair County Earth Fair is Friday and Saturday in Goodells County Park on Goodells Park Drive in Wales Township.

From special sunrise services in parks, beaches and cemeteries to more traditional places of worship, congregations through the Blue Water Area will gather today to celebrate Easter.

The Blue Water Area Humane Society will have 11th annual vaccination clinic for low-income families from12:30 to 3 p.m. April 18 at the community center building in Goodells County Park.

LAKEPORT -- A Latin High Mass will be celebrated at 8 a.m. today. The Rev. Wolfgang Seitz, national director of Opus Sanctorum Angelorum will speak on 'How to Commemorate and Share in Christ's Passion.' Exposition and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament is at 10 a.m. Confessions will be heard after Mass.

The 7th annual St. Clair County Earth Fair will be held at Goodells County Park on April 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This free event features representatives from local food, farming and gardening vendors.

A workshop about flowers is planned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 28 in the Goodells County Park Community Building.

A workshop to teach residents 5 to 19 years old will be held March 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. . Participants will be taught about growing, exhibiting and displaying fresh and silk flowers, the use of color and shapes in displays and gardens and creating houseplant container gardens.

Warm weather had people outside Tuesday and preparing for the coming change in season that hits Friday.

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force searched three homes in less than eight hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, resulting in several arrests and the confiscation of drugs and weapons.