Fountain News

A patriotic parade made its way down Pine Street in Ferrysburg and fireworks lit up the sky in Grand Haven with an array of colors during Saturday's Fourth of July festivities.

Fireworks and a parade will highlight Fourth of July activities in the Tri-Cities on Saturday.

Crews pulled the final section of culvert that survived the storm of June 12-13, 2008, from a creek crossing on Lincoln Road north of Dewey Monday, thus starting repairs on a washout that has caused people north of the creek to find alternative routes to their homes for more than a year.

Firefighters from Fountain and Free Soil were called to a structure fire on North Custer Road about 4:40 p.m. Thursday.

'Forever Plaid,' the 1950s musical that salutes the great four-part harmony groups like the Four Aces, the Ames Brothers, and The Lettermen, opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the West Shore Community College Center Stage Theater.

A 9-year-old boy sat with eyes red from crying as firefighters from Fountain and Free Soil finished extinguishing the fire he started at his grandmother's home at 6610 N. Custer Road.

Recent rains likely helped contain a barn fire this morning in the 4300 block of North Reek Road.

A former Mason County man is presumed drowned in a Wisconsin lake as searchers continue to look for him six days after he disappeared.

Deputies from the Mason County Sheriff's Office were called to a break-in in progress on Wever Road in Walhalla Friday afternoon and apprehended a suspect a short while later.

Diane Nelson was cleaning her carpets when she happened to notice the fire in her neighbor's burn barrel had gotten out of control.

Update: Police are seeking help from the public in finding Jeffrey William Varnes, age 36, and have a warrant to arrest him in connection with the fire.

Area workers are noticing their paychecks are slightly larger this month and many are thinking about how to spend that money - which is about $10 to $15 extra take-home pay a week.

The first six winners have been drawn in the Ludington Daily News Readers Survey contest.

Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan's Heartland has named Ken Bauer as the organization's new president and chief executive officer.

Almost 14 inches of new snow fell on Dick Hamilton's Chauvez Road home during the weekend, bringing this winter's total to about 138 inches.

Jay and Jean Thorndyke of Bellevue announce the engagement of their daughter Angie to Faron Bracy.

On Friday night firefighters battled several fires - including two houses that were seriously damaged - and freezing cold temperatures of 5-15 degrees.

We may need to speak to you again. Several roads were damaged by false-spring runoff over the weekend as one to two feet of melting snow and up to two inches of rain saturated Mason County.

A 23-year-old Fountain man is in jail after being arraigned for three criminal sexual conduct charges and pleading guilty to a charge of resisting and obstructing a police officer.

Six to eight inches of snow fell in town during the weekend, but the Fountain and Irons areas had more than a foot of snow, with 15 inches in some parts.