Mason County News

The West Shore Community College Board of Trustees approved replacing the roof of the Rec Center, adopted general fund, auxiliary and capital improvement budgets, approved changes to the compensation of President Charles Dillon - but no increase in his annual salary of $144,000 - was told summer enrollment is down, in part by design, and had two ... (more)

A Detroit couple police said were missing had been at the Little River Casino and Resort in Manistee, according to the Mason County Sheriff's Office.

An 88-year-old Manistee man was seriously injured in an vehicle accident Sunday, June 16 on a Mason County highway.

And they lasted for decades with such a high rate of success, he is being inducted into the Mason County Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday.

A 12-year-old Hopkins, Michigan, boy was in serious condition this morning after a near-drowning incident at Poncho's Pond at 7:15 p.m. Saturday.

The Mason County Sheriff's Office is attempting to locate overdue motorists. Shirley Brunson, 78, and her husband William Brunson, 92, left Detroit at 7:50 a.m. Sunday bound for their daughter's house in Free Soil, but never arrived.

It should come as no surprise that the first fastpitch softball team enshrined into the Mason County Sports Hall of Fame is the first state champions, the 1947 Abrahamson-Bannon softball team.

Local author Sharon Bluhm will present her book "Manierre Dawson: Inventions of the Mind" Tuesday, June 25 at 7 pm in the West Shore Bank Room of the Ludington Library.

The deputies -- Sgt. Oscar Davila and Deputy Derrick Wilson -- were awarded the Michigan Sheriffs' Association Medal of Honor for their involvement handling a police shooting last year.

It's springtime on the farm and that means corn is going in the ground, new calves are arriving regularly, and asparagus is growing like crazy.

The Mason County Board of Commissioners Tuesday turned down Sheriff Kim Cole's request to apply for grant money to buy a remote-operated vehicle to conduct underwater searches.

Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole is seeking the county board's permission to apply for a federal government Port Security Grant to buy a remote-operated vehicle to conduct underwater searches.

Deputies from the Mason County Sheriff's Office arrested a 22-year-old Ludington man for criminal sexual conduct at 1:20 p.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of Brandy Lane.

Would you charge into a house, take a baby from someone's arms and give it a good rap on the back? Nessa's epiglottis, the valve at the back of her throat, isn't fully developed yet, so she sometimes chokes on her food or saliva.

Members of the Mason-Oceana Water Safety Coalition attended a training workshop in Muskegon on Tuesday, June 4 to learn about the various dangerous currents that can occur in Lake Michigan.

In 25 years, the Mason County Walleye Association has raised more than a ton of walleyes for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Mark McCallum was sentenced to six years to 20 years in prison on Tuesday in Mason County's 51s t Circuit Court for two counts of embezzlement.

A county board committee is currently studying what tax rate Mason County should levy for the senior millage and is looking at giving a 2 percent increase in funds to the senior services while reducing the millage amount slightly from last year's levy.

A team of plant experts is spending its second day in Mason County today, searching wooded areas for plants that match the type of material found on Sean Phillips' shoes on June 29, 2011.

As community organizations come together to combat poverty in the area, the Ludington Daily News will be covering the problem in its own way.