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Mackinac Straits Health System Celebrates Affiliation with MyMichigan Health

ST. IGNACE, Mich. – Recently, leaders at MyMichigan Health attended an event at Mackinac Straits Hospital in celebration of the affiliation announcement between the health systems. Tricia Sommer, director of regional collaborations at MyMichigan Health, Greg Rogers, president and chief executive officer at MyMichigan Health, and Karen Cheeseman, president and chief executive […]

Two locals arrested on drug charges

After the March 13th arrests of Donald Holloway, Draper Leverson and Emma Washko, Trident continued their investigation. A Search Warrant was executed when Trident connected additional suspects to the previous arrests. Trident executed the search warrant at a Sault Ste Marie residence and seized Methamphetamine and Heroin. ARRESTED:AMBER MARY WARD […]

Local man, Eddie Folkersma, wins top national award

“Eddie began working for our family business in 1987, when he was just 18 years old. He has poured in the wind, rain, and snow, in heat waves or blizzards, off barges or ferries, and on remote Great Lakes islands,” says Northern Sand & Gravel and VanSloten Enterprises Inc. owner […]

Local Father and Son arrested on drug charges

OTSEGO COUNTY, MI. — On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, troopers from the Michigan State Police(MSP) Seventh District Hometown Security Team stopped a vehicle on I-75 Highway near the Loon Lakerest area in Bagley Twp. The driver, 54-year-old Victor Emmanuel McMillan of Rudyard and 30-year-oldJoshua Lee McMillan of St. Ignace, were […]

Brimley woman injured in car accident on I-75

NUNDA TOWNSHIP — A woman from the Upper Peninsula was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey after she sustained serious, non-life threatening injuries when she lost control on the wet roadway of I-75. At 3:01 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, the Cheboygan County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to […]

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI — Detectives from Trident have been investigating individuals involved with the smuggling of narcotics into our area. On 3-13-2022 at approximately 0322 am a traffic stop was conducted on I-75 in Chippewa County. A search warrant was also conducted. As a result of the search Detectives seized […]

Cloverland Electric Announces Board of Director Candidates

DAFTER, Mich. (March 11, 2022) – Cloverland Electric Cooperative announces the candidates eligible for election to its board of directors. Candidate biographies will be published on Cloverland.com and in the May | June issue of Cloverland Connections magazine. Ballots mail April 25, 2022 and voting ends May 27, 2022. Members can vote by […]