Merrill News

MIDLAND - A Midland County man is headed to trial on charges that he masterminded a plot to kill his estranged wife and hired his nephew to be the hit man.

June 16, 2009 -- The Michigan Department of Transportation has dedicated the Bay City Rest Area in honor of Larry E. Tibbits, P.E., of Merrill, Saginaw County.

Merrill Community Schools leaders have made Sarah Kettelhohn an administrator, giving her a $71,000 annual salary for handling several roles.

A 16-year-old Merrill driver had the courtesy to stop and apologize to the 36-year-old Merrill man he almost collided with -- but the teen's 18-year-old passenger got out and knocked the man's two front teeth out.

A Merrill High School freshman never thought that a report she wrote would culminate in a fundraiser with the Saginaw Sting indoor league football team.

Saginaw Township Community Schools veteran board member Barbara A. Russell wants another term, and newcomers Brandy L. Siler of Merrill and Martin P. Maier of Chesaning are running unopposed for board seats.

The 62-year-old Merrill resident has lost both legs to complications from diabetes.

For her senior project, Angel Moore, 17, daughter of Darrell and Melody Moore of Merrill, made a video about the statistics of child abuse and led a pinwheel garden planting on the school's front yard to bring awareness to the first day of Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Month.

Saginaw County's Quality Child Care Initiative helps providers raise the bar on caring for our littlest citizens with two years of staff training and on-site consultation.

Kochville Road is one of those roads, and residents say North Rauchholz in Hemlock and Mielke and Wilkinson roads in Freeland look like they've blown up.

Randy F. Pfau. "Some witnesses are giving us a little different descriptions, but we take them all seriously and investigate each case," Pfau said.

Overnight wind gusts as high as 52 mph had Saginaw County residents holding onto their hats, officials at the National Weather Service in Detroit are reporting.

Merrill parents and school officials are on edge after a stranger driving a white minivan approached a 13-year-old boy attempting to lure him into his vehicle with candy.

A Merrill resident told Saginaw County sheriff's deputies that just before 4 p.m. Monday, an older white man in a baseball cap and sunglasses driving a white minivan approached a child and offered candy.

Tom Mayan Sr. looks at the federal economic stimulus money and crosses his fingers, twice.

"We have three daughters," said Ben Borsenik, an economics teacher at Bullock Creek High School and husband of Monica Borsenik.

A Saginaw man is headed to prison for his role in the Joe Gun burglary. U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington on Tuesday sentenced Wayne F. Parcham to 70 months plus restitution of $7,148. Parcham, 21, ...