Manistee News

The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo is a good day's fun for families, and it's only a couple minutes off of I-94. / Photo by Ellen Creager/Detroit Free Press From the Lumberman's Monument in the Huron National Forest, the majestic AuSable River is a reminder of Michigan's logging days.

Tight Lines for Troops was about more than the fishing for the veterans aboard the 60 boats that left the Manistee harbor Saturday morning.

Manistee Catholic Central junior Alysha Heck placed second in the shot put on Saturday at the MHSAA Division 4 track and field meet.

Paced by seniors Zach Bialik and Gabe Toczynski, the Manistee Catholic Central Sabers won the Western Michigan D League championship match on Tuesday and took the overall league crown.

The capital campaign to restore the historic Vogue Theatre in downtown Manistee will receive an influx of cash through a Michigan Economic Development Corporation grant totaling $503,592. The money will be used to renovate and reopen the 75-year-old theater, which closed in 2005 and has remained vacant since, said Travis Alden, the director of the ... (more)

Manistee's boys golf team won a triangular match with Mason County Central and Hesperia at Lakeside Links Wednesday afternoon.

For the first time in 11 years, a Manistee Boxing Club boxer has qualified for the Golden Gloves National Tournament, fighting for Team Michigan.

The two suspects in the April 16 shooting death of Dennis Guenthardt waived their right to speedy preliminary exams on the charges and the proceedings were postponed for about 30 days.

Graveside services for Stanley P. Jagnecki of Freesoil, who died on Friday March 29, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 4, at St.

After a chilly and somewhat even snowy April, we have suddenly found ourselves thrown right into early summer warmth in parts of Northern Michigan.

Is Muskegon County an urban community, a series of small cities or a lakeside metropolitan area defined by Lake Michigan and its beaches? A new day dawns on Muskegon Lake with a spectacular sunrise.

Mason County Central's track teams continued a whirlwind stretch of meets Monday with the boys taking third and the girls fifth at the Benzie Central Invitational.

Manistee sophomores Jessica Gustad and Annie Fuller helped power the Chippewa girls track and field team to a second-place finish on Friday at the 13-team Scottville Optimist Invitational.

There were an estimated 11 fewer local residents working in March than were working a year earlier and an estimated 541 fewer residents who were jobless.

State officials say they headed off large-scale contamination of the Manistee River in northwestern Michigan by detecting a sewage overflow while gathering environmental data.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds potential land buyers that 27 parcels of state-owned land in three Michigan counties are currently for sale by sealed bid auction at www.michigan.gov/landforsale . The auction began April 3, and will run through May 2, 2013.

That's what happens when you toss a no-hitter in your first career game, something Kroeze did Monday night against Manistee at Stokely Diamond in a nonconference doubleheader the rivals split.