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Great gift idea: Calendar features library’s 100-year history.

December 23, 2015
Great gift idea: Calendar features library’s 100-year history.

HESPERIA — Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hesperia Community Library with a 2016 commemorative calendar. The Friends of the Library have published a calendar featuring photos of the history of the library. This calendar contains all of the important dates for 2016, including those for the Sesquicentennial celebration for the Village of Hesperia. You will be able to plan…

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Drunk driving crash.

December 22, 2015
Drunk driving crash.

The police news is sponsored by Springstead Law Offices, with locations in Hart and Fremont, 231-873-4022 (Hart), www.springsteadlaw.com. COLFAX TOWNSHIP — A 33-year-old Custer woman is being charged with operating while intoxicated following a rollover crash Monday, Dec. 21, at 6 p.m. on 160th Avenue near Monroe Road. The suspect was transported to an area hospital following the crash, according…

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Fire destroys home.

December 22, 2015
Fire destroys home.

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. ROTHBURY — A home at 2622 W. Winston Rd. was totally destroyed in a fire Monday night, Dec. 21. No one was injured in the blaze, said Grant Township Fire Chief Roland Brooks. Both people who lived in the home were at work at the time the fire ignited, Brooks said. The single-story home with…

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Quad driver sentenced to probation; victim requests leniency.

December 21, 2015
Quad driver sentenced to probation; victim requests leniency.

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — The 53-year-old Montague man who appeared to have run over a property owner with a quad during a trespassing dispute that was recorded on video in Grant Township was sentenced in 78th District Court Monday, Dec. 21, to six months probation and $400 in fines and costs. Ronald Leroy Wallace, of 4927 Bowen…

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Pentwater man faces jail time for growing marijuana.

December 21, 2015
Pentwater man faces jail time for growing marijuana.

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — A 42-year-old Pentwater man faces up to three months in jail after pleading guilty in 27th Circuit Court Monday, Dec. 21, to one felony count of manufacturing marijuana – 20 more plants, but less than 200. Clifford Eugene Verschueren, of 4867 W. Adams Rd., testified that he was growing marijuana last June at…

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