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Pet food manufacturing facility to open in former Oceana Foods plant.

November 4, 2022

Pet food manufacturing facility to open in former Oceana Foods plant. The company will add 99 jobs, invest $27 million in renovations. SHELBY — The Right Place, Inc. announced that Perdue Farms, a fourth-generation, family-owned, US food and agriculture company based in Salisbury, Maryland, plans to invest over $27 million to renovate the former Oceana Foods facility that closed last…

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Local businesses defrauded roughly $250,000 by organized scam operation. 

November 4, 2022
Local businesses defrauded roughly $250,000 by organized scam operation. 

Local businesses defrauded roughly $250,000 by organized scam operation.  By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. HART — Businesses in Oceana and Mason counties were defrauded a total of approximately $250,000 by a sophisticated scam operation that involved cashing fake payroll checks. “There are three stores in Oceana that were impacted by a group of scammers that came up from Central America, Honduras,…

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Child fentynal death case against mom bound over to circuit court

November 2, 2022

Child fentynal death case against mom bound over to circuit court. By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. EDITOR’S NOTE: As Jodi Michelle Neino sat in the audience awaiting her case to be called before Judge John Middlebrook, she attempted to intimidate the writer of this article by constantly glaring at her for over an hour. When her case was called before the…

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Case against accused robber moves to higher court

November 2, 2022

Case against accused robber moves to higher court By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. HART — The criminal case against a 51-year-old Mears man accused of robbing and assaulting an elderly couple in Golden Township and then fleeing in their vehicle last September was bound over to Oceana County’s 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Nov. 1. Harold Raymond Labeau, of 5845 W. 6th…

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Man faces charges for taking teen daughter on crime spree.

November 2, 2022

Man faces charges for taking teen daughter on crime spree. By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. HART — A 34-year-old Rothbury man currently incarcerated in the Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson County was transported by Michigan Department of Corrections officers to appear in Oceana County’s 79th District Court Tuesday, Nov. 1. Daniel Laurence Marcinak, whose address is listed as 1100 Harris Rd.…

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