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Huge amount of emergency calls during storm.

March 25, 2016
Huge amount of emergency calls during storm.

The following is local law enforcement and fire department activity Thursday, March 24, 2016: – 1:45 a.m., (Shelby-Benona Fire Department), wires down, W. Shelby Rd., Shelby Township. – 2:24 a.m., (Grant Township Fire Department), wires down, W. Stony Lake Rd., Claybanks Township. – 2:40 a.m., (Pentwater Fire Department), wires down, Sixth St. and Judd St., Village of Pentwater. – 4:32…

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GLE: Power restored to most, but not all.

March 24, 2016

An estimated 1,580 Great Lakes Energy members remain without power late Thursday afternoon, March 24, in 11 counties served by the electric cooperative due to power line damage caused by the massive storm, according to a GLE press release issued at 4 p.m. “Crews have restored almost 10,000 Great Lakes Energy members since the start of the storm which has…

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UPDATE: 911 line restoration expected at 6:30 p.m.

March 24, 2016
UPDATE: 911 line restoration expected at 6:30 p.m.

WEARE TOWNSHIP — Frontier Communications crews are working to repair a damaged fiber optic cable that caused emergency 911 calls in Mason and Oceana counties to be re-routed through Muskegon Central Dispatch, and it is expected to be repaired by 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according a press release issued by Mason-Oceana 911. “The time for normal 911 service to be restored…

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Police respond to several minor crashes.

March 24, 2016
Police respond to several minor crashes.

The following is local law enforcement activity Wednesday, March 23, 2016: – 9:41 a.m., (Oceana County Sheriff’s Office), criminal sexual conduct (CSC), S. 180th Ave., Greenwood Township. – 1:40 p.m., (Michigan State Police, Hart post), car/deer crash, 56th Ave. and Buchanan Rd., Benona Township. – 2:51 p.m., (OCSO), one-car property damage crash, southbound US 31 and Oceana Dr., Grant Township.…

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Couple arrested after allegedly ‘dining and dashing.’

March 24, 2016
Couple arrested after allegedly ‘dining and dashing.’

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. CRYSTAL TOWNSHIP — A couple who allegedly racked up a nearly $55 bill for food and drinks at Kristi’s Pour House Tuesday night, March 22, was arrested by Oceana County Sheriff’s deputies on charges of defrauding an innkeeper, according to Lt. Craig Mast. Stephen Woody, 43, and Shannon West, 36, left the bar without paying…

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