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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
LANSING, MICH. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared March 20-26 as Michigan’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, and the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP/EMHSD) is calling on residents to take action by participating in a voluntary statewide tornado drill at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23. “Last summer […]
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 […]
On March 17, 2022, Shawn Alex Vert (age 35) was sentenced by the Honorable James P. Lambros of the 50th Circuit Court in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Mr. Vert was sentenced to 35 years to 60 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections, based on his conviction of one count […]
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 […]
LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and local agencies are enacting additional annual spring weight restrictions to protect roads. Effective 6 a.m. Friday, March 18, weight restrictions will be imposed and enforced on all state trunkline highways from the Michigan/Indiana and Michigan/Ohio state lines north to and including […]
It was a year ago this month when Michigan fish and wildlife regulators caught wind that aquarium moss balls sold in a Washington state pet shop were infested with zebra mussels, an invasive species that has decimated Great Lakes ecosystems. Within a day, Corporal Nick Torsky and his fellow Michigan […]
A two-story historic clapboard home on the East Bluff of Mackinac Island, overlooking the harbor and filled with a century of memories, is now gray ash and rubble. “The fire was spotted by a security guard at the Grand Hotel. He saw an orange glow,” Kathryn Kavanaugh Ledtke, of Fort Gratiot, told the […]
Spring in Northern Michigan marks the return of the maple syrup season. For many this is the first opportunity to get back into the woods after a long winter. There is a lot of debate over the origins of maple tapping, but the practice goes back to indigenous culture where […]
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 […]
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 […]
