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Downtown Ludington Ladies’ Night postponed due to weather

December 11, 2024

LUDINGTON — Continuing snow squalls and frigid temperatures have resulted in the decision to postpone the Downtown Ludington Ladies’ Shopping Night. The event was scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12 and will instead combine it with Men’s Night planned for Wednesday, December 18. The combined shopping event will offer extended hours, 4 to 8 p.m., special holiday deals, promotions, and personalized…

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Volunteers sought for New Year’s Eve Ball Drop

December 11, 2024

LUDINGTON — The Ludington Downtown Development Authority is seeking local volunteers for the 15th annual Pure Ludington New Year’s Eve Ball Drop on Dec. 31. Beginning at 9 p.m. on Ludington Avenue, revelers can listen to music. The event will also include a beer tent with commemorative light-up glasses, fireworks and west Michigan’s largest New Year’s Eve Ball Drop. The…

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Local companies awarded training funds through Michigan Works

December 11, 2024

BIG RAPIDS – Michigan Works West Central announced more than $506,700 in training funding is being awarded to 14 local companies to train more than 1,750 employees.  Five Mason County businesses — Hardman Construction, Leta’s Educational Childcare LLC, Pro-Master Cleaning & Restoration, Quick Way of Ludington and Safety Decals Inc. — are among those companies. The funds are being awarded…

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Second annual Pigs for a Cause Auction will benefit local families for the holidays

December 10, 2024

By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — The Ludington Police Department, West Shore Bank and the Lakeshore Food Club are teaming up again this year for the second annual Pigs for a Cause Auction. Scheduled to be auctioned will be a butchered pig and a quarter of a cow that were purchased by West Shore Bank during the West Michigan Livestock…

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What is What3Words?

December 7, 2024

By Joan Young, MCP contributor Have you ever thought the system of dividing the planet with lines of latitude, north and south, and longitude, east and west, was an interesting idea? It was actually a great idea, first proposed by Eratosthenes, a Greek, in the third century BC. His works were lost with the Great Library of Alexandria, but others…

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