Arenac County News

Officials from Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections are set to visit the now-closed Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Arenac County and one other Michigan prison next week.

HOLLY: You may deck the halls -- but not the residents -- of this northern Oakland County township and village.

Bay City soon could be selling water up in Arenac County. As part of a plan to get more water to the Saganing Eagles Landing Casino in Standish Township, Saginaw Chippewa tribal leaders are exploring tapping into Bay City's water.

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The Standish City Council has pulled up the welcome mat for a proposal to house Guantanamo Bay prisoners in the northern Michigan community.

Magic Frank says Michigan deserves answers on Gitmo North , which is really a very coy way of saying that what Michigan needs is a good dose of rightwing fear mongering.

STANDISH - After hearing from many skeptical citizens, the Standish City Council delayed action on a proposal to tell the Obama administration it is eager to make the town's soon-to-close state prison the new home for suspected terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

OKEMOS - A grassroots organization opposed to the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Michigan is hosting a town hall meeting 7 p.m. tonight at Kinawa Middle School.

The Michigan Coalition to Stop Gitmo North is holding an open meeting tonight at Rochester High School to express its dissent of a plan to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Michigan prison.

This month's scheduled shutdown of the Standish Maximum Correction Facility and the loss of its 300 jobs has supporters and opponents of housing Guantanamo Bay inmates busy.

The Bay Area Women's Center has several community events planned in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Attorneys have less than three weeks to finish preparing for the trial of a former Standish city manager accused of embezzling public funds.

Monday, September 28, 2009 at 12:35 p.m. A womana s body has been recovered near Au Gres, but it is uncertain as to whether it is that of Catherine Nativite Hoskinson, 48, of Madison Heights.

Huron County authorities were to resume their search for a missing woman Sunday after the discovery of a woman's remains near Au Gres produced more questions than answers.

Hundreds were without power after a car smashed into a utility pole in Arenac County.

The debate over transferring Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to Michigan will resume Thursday with a community meeting in Standish.

I never even remotely entertained the idea that I might know more about the community newspaper business than did my father.

Four federal officials were in Mid-Michigan Thursday, looking at the maximum-security prison in Standish to see if it could house detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Corrections Reform will hear testimony Wednesday on two proposals to bring prisoners to Michigan.

The idea of bringing Guantanamo detainees to the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility has Congressman Pete Hoekstra bristling, and a lawman there wondering.