LUDINGTON — Suds on the Shore, one of West Michigan’s premier craft beverage festivals, will return to Ludington’s Rotary Park on Saturday, Aug. 15, bringing together breweries, wineries, distilleries, food vendors and live entertainment while raising funds for United Way of the West Shore. The annual event, held along the Lake Michigan shoreline, celebrates Michigan-made craft beverages and has become…
The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is police activity in Mason County over the weekend: Friday, May 29, 2026: 8:06 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’s Office), car/deer crash, no injury, US 31 south of US 10, Amber Township. 3:37 p.m., (MCSO), warrant arrest, 100 block of Emerson Lake…
WALHALLA — The Mason County Rural Fire Authority has received a $5,842.80 grant from the Great Lakes Energy People Fund to help purchase new automated external defibrillators for emergency response vehicles throughout Mason County. The grant will cover the cost of more than three of the eight state-of-the-art AEDs the authority is purchasing from Stryker Corp. The devices will be…
The train ferry fleet of Ludington was once the largest in the world. The carferries shipped rail and passengers across Lake Michigan. Over 70 men commanded those vessels from 1875 to 1990. While there have been many books published about the carferries, there has never been a book published about the captains. Rob Alway, historian and journalist is in the…
HAMLIN TOWNSHIP — A 77-year-old Hamlin Township man was arrested early Saturday morning at his home after allegedly firing a handgun at Mason County sheriff’s deputies who were investigating a disturbance complaint that began Friday evening at Scotty’s Restaurant. Deputies were initially dispatched to Scotty’s Restaurant, 5910 W. US 10, at 8:13 p.m. Friday, May 29, after staff reported a…
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