BELLAIRE – Just three weeks before being elected to another two-year term of office, District 8 County Commissioner Scott Kruger, of Mancelona, resigned from the position on Thursday, Oct. 11.
REGION – For the past four years, 16-year-old Luke Helsel has been raising and selling pumpkins at Messiah Farms, his family's Christmas tree farm in Helena Township.
REGION – The impact of women’s health activism on individual lives is on full display during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Survivors celebrate their status by wearing pink, participating in public events that will carry the momentum forward.
KALKASKA – Voters within the Kalkaska Public Schools district still have a chance to vote for Mike Tinkle and possibly elect him to a full six-year term on the school district’s board of education.
BELLAIRE – There is no reason to be alarmed on Saturday, Oct. 13 when the area surrounding Meadow Brook Medical Center in Bellaire fills with emergency, fire and law enforcement first responders from throughout Antrim County.
REGION – Despite the warm temperatures of September, experts are predicting that with the much cooler, wetter weather that October has brought, Mother Nature will show off the best of her fall colors in the next week or two throughout northern lower Michigan.
REGION – There were tears and laughter; sorrow and joy. And a lot of hugs.
That was the scene last Sunday, Oct. 7 at the Elk Rapids Fire Department’s open house for its new training facility off Hermann Road in Elk Rapids Township.
REGION – Sunny skies, warm temperatures and a good economy meant lots of visitors and the sound of busy cash registers in businesses throughout Antrim and Kalkaska counties this past summer.