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January 26, 2012 / Front Page

DIGGING IN

A pie-eating contestant digs into her pie in the five-to-eight age range contest at Tip-up Town Sunday. Winning this contest was Jenna Couch, 7, Houghton Lake (not pictured). More...

Roscommon County Sheriff Randy Stevenson called the first weekend of Tip-up Town, U.S.A. “very safe” as there was not a single incident of an ice recovery call for fishermen or snowmobilers on Houghton Lake. More...

County’s kids victims of state’s economic woes, report says

Michigan children in general and Roscommon County children in particular are continuing to see the negative impact of the state’s struggling economy according to statistics recently released in the annual Kids Count in Michigan Data Book. More...

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Ohio man injured on Houghton Lake

A 68-year-old Ohio man was injured while riding a snowmobile on the ice of Houghton Lake Jan. 21. Roger Bowers of Perrysburg, OH was riding on Houghton Lake along the shoreline near 737 Old Trail Dr. More...

KONETCHY ADDRESSES GROUP AT SOUL’S HARBOR

Michigan Republican candidate for the United States Senate Peter Konetchy addressed a group of approximately ten people at Soul’s Harbor Worship Center in Roscommon during a town hall style mee More...

Big Brothers Big Sisters looking for more mentors

By Krista Tacey-Cater

Mid Michigan Big Brothers Big Sisters Executive Director Carol Gage is looking for more adults to become mentors for children as January is mentoring month. More...

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Obituaries - Free Access

Andrew Stephen Cherven

Former Roscommon Postmaster and Roscommon County Commissioner Andrew Stephen Cherven, Roscommon, died Jan. 17, 2012, at the age of 89. More...

Trudy Miller King

Trudy Miller King, 77, Houghton Lake, died surrounded by her family, Jan. 23, 2012, at Oakwood Hospital, Dearborn. Cremation has taken place. A service will be held at Voran Funeral Home, Taylor, today (Thursday, Jan. More...

Ruth Jennie Ott

Ruth Jennie Ott, 94, Prudenville, died Jan. 18, 2012. A service was held at Lyle Elliott Funeral Home, Warren, on Jan. 23. Mrs. Ott enjoyed crocheting, reading and her Bible study group. More...

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Editorial

It’s fitting

Our Opinion

It’s fitting that this issue of the Resorter, #52 of Volume 71, is the last issue for which this space will be devoted to the opinion of the Resorter’s fifth publisher and editor, Thomas W. Hamp. As of Jan. More...

‘If it Fitz’

Long time readers of the Resorter will recall the columns written by Jim Fitzgerald, back in the 70s and 80s under the column head of “If it Fitz” on the editorial page. More...

Farewell, Tom, and thanks for the red marks

I Was Thinking… By Cheryl Holladay

The time is here to say farewell to the man who hired me here at the newspaper. Tom Hamp has been at the helm of the Resorter since 1982. More...

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Outdoors

PUT UP A FIGHT

Roscommon High School student Austin Schiattone, 16, holds a 20-pound northern pike he caught on a tip-up on Higgins Lake Jan. 21. More...

HIGGINS LAKE MONSTER

Tip-up Town Queen’s Court Member Lindy Peterson shared this picture of a 43 1/2 inch northern pike caught in Higgins Lake Saturday after she met the angler who landed the fish Saturday night. More...

Klondike Derby!

Photos and text by Thomas Reznich

Cub Scouts from Webelos Pack 3944, Roscommon, joined members of Boy Scout Troop 944 as the Roscommon area scouts participated in the annual Klondike Derby Jan. 16. More...

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Happenings

CHANGE FOR H.O.P.E.

The staff from North Central Area Credit Union Jan. More...

Richfield Township Public Library plans open house

The Richfield Township Public Library will host an open house on Jan. 30. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served. More...

RCCF FUNDS HELP ANIMAL SHELTER

Roscommon County Community Foundation Chairman Tom Moreau (left) and RCCF President/CEO Mary Fry (right) present Roscommon Animal Shelter Director Terry MacKillop earlier this month with grants total More...

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Law Enforcement

Snowmobiler charged with leaving the scene following head-on collision

An Algonac couple and their children riding their snowmobiles were hit headon by another snowmobiler on the ice of Houghton Lake the evening of Jan. 21. More...

STATEWIDE SYSTEM

(Left to right) Dan Schneider, information systems analyst for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, installs a mobile data computer system in a patrol vehicle at Michigan Sta More...

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Ice Fishing Contest is a ‘go’

More TUT fun slated this weekend

Tip-up Town, U.S.A. continues this weekend with more snowy family fun, games and prizes. More...

PEEK-A-BOO

Tip-up Town Queen Alyson Kaptor (left) and Runner up Lindsay Kelly peek out of the TUT ice sculpture, which was created by Steve Stuck and Richard Kristof. More...

CAUTIONING THE PUBLIC

A crew from the Michigan Department of Transportation places a solar powered sign near the former Clark gas station in Prudenville on M-55 on Jan. More...

Court News

83rd District Court Magistrate

Sherry Blaisus, 83rd District Court Magistrate, assessed fines to the following during the period of Dec. 1 through 31, 2011: Department of Natural Resources Operating an ORV or motor vehicle where prohibited: Jeffery S. Walters, $100; Anthimos T. More...

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