Onekama News

Hundreds of area children were home with flu-like symptoms again today, but their absence did not close any more local schools.

All Mason County Central Middle School students - not just the ones with flu-like symptoms - stayed home from school today after a sewer line collapsed under a hallway in the school.

Onekama Schools will beA closed Wednesday and Thursday due to a flu outbreak. School leaders say 119 students were sick Tuesday.A There are a total of 408 students in the district.

Police arrested three minors this weekend for consuming alcohol on the Northwest Michigan College campus.

Mason County Eastern junior Mike Stickney finished in fourth place as his Cardinals took third at the Western Michigan D League championship cross country meet Wednesday.

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Baby Boy born October 16, 1963 at Onekama, Michigan-Manistee County looking for biological father/mother. Lived one year in foster care with Rose Fluhrer of Traverse City through Catholic Social Services.

Even with a cut in state funding, the Manistee County Fair is hoping for a good year.

Today the Onekama community celebrated a new grant and a new identity -- one that could help bring in new businesses and jobs.

Wife beats up husband over cooking A Forida woman was arrested by police for assaulting her husband after he criticised her cooking.

ONEKAMA, Mich. - Braeden Furlow teed up his SpongeBob SquarePants ball from about 85 yards out, picked up a 3-wood and made a solid hit that bounced twice on the fairway before landing in the hole.

A Green Careers job forum that highlights job training and career opportunities in renewable and energy efficiency fields will be held June 26 as part of the annual Michigan Energy Fair.

The 2009 Michigan Energy Fair will be the last weekend of June at the Onekama Fair Grounds in Manistee County.

A Infants, toddlers, preschoolers and students in Onekama will climb, bike and enjoy some good old fashion play thanks to a $50,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Childcare Grant Program to Onekama Consolidated Schools.

Andy Booth has less than a month before he closes the book on a 33-year career in education, most recently as superintendent of the school district.

After his younger brother was critically burned in a fire at their East Grand Rapids rental home last week, it took a day for Jesse Grenn to tell his mother that the blaze started in his room, caused by a candle he'd left burning, Connie Grenn said.

Jeff Sternberger, father of Kristen Sternberger, 28, a resident of an East Grand Rapids home on Lake Drive that caught fire early Wednesday, stands outside the home Wednesday morning.