Mancelona News

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 1:10 p.m. It's certainly not breaking news that the state of Michigan is in a major budget crunch.

Twelve people who didn't have jobs now do. More than 100 work hopefuls attended a Northern Michigan Agriculture Job Fair on Monday at the Park Place Dome, and one employer hired some of them on the spot.

Duals Fest Get Your Motor Runnin' at the Duals Fest By Rick Coates 6/8/09 Don 'Duals' Watkins had a lifelong passion for the skilled trades.

An Antrim County community hopes an annual tradition this weekend will help drive some business to the area.

A Florida man is locked up in the Antrim County Jail on a felony assault charge.

A near three hour search for a missing elderly man is over. Police say Harold Deater left his Rapid City home in Kalkaska County sometime Monday morning.

Hide Video The Kalkaska County Sheriff's Department say they've found a missing 83 year old man.

" U.S. Congressman Bart Stupak announced that 17 Northern Michigan road projects will receive nearly $4 million for community facilities and emergency first responder projects from the recently passed economic recovery package.

Specific task force recommendations for the five-county Grand Traverse region: n St.

Mancelona will be adrift in a summer-long sea of orange construction cones. The Michigan Department of Transportation plans a $3 million overhaul of U.S. 131, the major thoroughfare through the village.

Plans for the new Biomass power plant in Mancelona are moving along, and could be all the community needs to give their job market a major boost.

WHAT: Open-house style meeting regarding planned reconstruction of US-131 in the village of Mancelona in Antrim County.

THE FOLLOWING PRODUCT SAFETY RECALL WAS VOLUNTARILY CONDUCTED BY THE FIRM IN COOPERATION WITH THE CPSC.

The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC.

Rena Rudkin, of Buckley, called with a heartfelt thank you to the wonderful couple who came to her rescue early in April when Rena's husband collapsed outside JoAnn's Fabric in Traverse City.

Ten years ago Monday Columbine High School became synonymous with tragedy, as two students went on one of the deadliest school shooting rampages in United States history, killing 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

Her father was admitted to Munson Medical Center late on April 7, but Louise Muma didn't find out until the next day.

The Michigan Center for the Book today announced the three state winners of Letters About Literature, a national writing contest in which young readers wrote letters to authors, living or dead, describing how the authors' work changed the students' way of thinking.

A water main project in Antrim County that's provided safe drinking water for a community confronted by an enormous toxic groundwater plume likely won't fully address the contamination.

Marjorie Bagnell, of Mancelona, passes along this recipe, which she says is good on cake, cookies or brownies.