New Era News

Full-time students achieving a semester grade point average of 3.75 or above receive high honors, and full-time students with a grade point average between 3.50 and 3.749 receive honors.

The new owners of the Muskegon paper mill have asked the city of Muskegon for permission to use explosives to bring down a 280-foot smokestack and a bleach plant building on the mill property.

Former Shelby Public Schools Superintendent Scott Lund was arrested Thursday and faces two felony counts for allegedly converting and using school-owned property for personal use.

Lund, 54, of New Era, faces one count of embezzlement by a public official over $50 and one count of stealing/retaining a financial transaction device without consent.

Mark Fitzgerald, 51, of New Era, works on a part for the M777 Howitzer, a marine artillery, at Alcoa Howmet Ti-Cast on Oct.