(Above) Dan Elsholz of the Merritt Area Fire Department mans the controls on a fire engine during a blaze at an unoccupied Missaukee County home Monday night. More...
Denton Township Police and the Roscommon County Sheriff's Department are investigating a series of "phishing" scams aimed at customers of area credit unions. More...
Houghton Lake Community Schools Superintendent Pete Injasoulian is pictured with Lou Ann Pacheco of the Houghton Lake Bobcat Boosters as he purchases ticket 001 for the Booster's 200 Club drawing. Tickets are $25. More...
HOUGHTON LAKE VARSITY FOOTBALL Front row, left to right: Zach Youngs, Wesley Williams, Trevor Bates, Anthony Kolo, Anthony Mieske, Jared Orban, Ryan Hacker, DJ Tharp, Kody Rase. More...
ROSCOMMON VARSITY FOOTBALL Front row, left to right: Manager Dillon Jazkowski, Kevin Viguilla, Nate Jernigan, Jimmy Frye, Robert Clement, Ryan Vogel, Sean Long, Dain Garber, Preston Geers, Joe Gretch. More...
I just wanted to let the residents of Houghton Lake know what a wonderful time we had at Bud Bash. We rented a cabin from some wonderful folks in the Heights. More...
I am a 74 year old, retired, handicapped, U.S. Veteran, and have owned a golf cart for 20 years, in St. Helen, Richfield Township. The main purpose for the golf cart is to transport myself and my children to my dock and my pontoon boat. More...
Ninety-six members of the Organ Transplant Group of Northern Michigan attended the annual Hawaiian lawn party at the home of Bev and Dick Cherwinski, Vanderbilt, Aug. 9. More...
A stroke hits and you can no longer talk. Or you are driving to work and a car swerves into your lane sending you unconscious to the Intensive Care Unit on life support. Those are the kind of real-life scenarios that require answers. More...
This weekend, the North Central Arts Council as well as the Houghton Lake Arts and Crafts Association, will host craft shows on the grounds of Houghton Lake schools. More...
Rose Champagne shows off her welltended flower garden her neighbors have been raving about at Houghton Harbor Condominiums. She said this is her first year of planting flowers. More...
Pen & Pallette Guild member Peggy Hughes works on a watercolor during the guild's fourth annual art show at the Gahagan Nature Preserve, Roscommon, Saturday. Five artists displayed their work. As it did last year, rain forced the show indoors. More...
Paul and Helen Reinhart of Okemos planned to spend last Sunday sailing on Higgins Lake, but when they went to the Higgins Lake Boat Yard where their boat was moored, they found that the previous afternoon's thunderstorms had ruined their plans. More...
Grievances filed by union employees of Gerrish-Higgins School District will head for the Michigan Employment Relations Commission following a decision by the school board last week. The board of education Aug. More...
Labor Day means the end of summer and back-to-school time for area students. Gerrish-Higgins students begin classes Tuesday while Houghton Lake Community Schools students start the next day. More...
The 2007 Michigan Drunk Driving Audit revealed declines across the state in alcohol or drug-related crashes and deaths, injury crashes and impaired driving arrests. More...
Joseph Alan Lyons, 65, died Aug. 31, 2008, at his Higgins Lake home. Walsh Funeral Home, Roscommon, handled arrangements. Burial services will be held at a later date. Burial will be in Crestview Cemetery, Markey Township. More...
Verna E. Millard, 86, Higgins Lake, died Aug. 29, 2008, at Mercy Hospital, Grayling. Graveside services were held Aug. 30 at Crestview Cemetery, Markey Township. Arrangements were by Walsh Funeral Home Roscommon. More...
Emily Anne Lionberger, 15, Higgins Lake, died Aug. 27, 2008, at her home. A service was held Aug. 30 at Walsh Funeral Home, Roscommon, with Lonnie Cook officiating. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery, Higgins Lake. More...
Unions: What Works -- and What Doesn't "We must hang together, gentlemen," Benjamin Franklin warned his fellow colonists during the American Revolution, "else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." In many ways, the same thing is true in bu More...
To outside observers of the Department of Natural Resources, managing our state's fisheries and wildlife resources are two entirely different functions. More...
The Michigan departments of Agriculture (MDA) and Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the state's first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a three-year old white-tailed deer from a privately owned cervid (POC) facility in Kent County. More...
Bob Pollard, 52, of Houghton Lake caught this 38-inch northern pike on the morning of Aug. 21. The 13.1-pounder struck a Rapala Pollard was trolling near the South Shore weedbed. Pollard said it is the largest pike he's ever caught. (TRP) More...
Dalyana Miller, 9, Houghton Lake, grew her hair out for the purpose of donating it to Locks of Love. She recently had 11 inches cut off at the Hairloft by hairstylist Jamie Mecomber. (CHP) More...
ING, a global banking and investment firm, has recognized Roscommon Middle School teacher Chuck G. Schepke, Roscommon, with its national 2008 "Unsung Heroes" award. More...
Fifty-six million children across the country begin heading back to school this month, and AAA is urging motorists to slow down and stay alert in neighborhoods and school zones with its 75th annual "School's Open- Drive Carefully" campaign. More...
Hayley Collins, 2004 graduate of Houghton Lake High School, and Joshua LaFevre, a graduate of Ogemaw Heights High School, graduated from the 108th Law Enforcement Academy at Madison Area Technical College's Human and Protective Services Center Aug. More...
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