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By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor HART – Students will not have to stay in school 20 minutes longer every day to make up snow days as school officials had initially planned. They will have to go to school four days longer. Superintendent Mark Platt announced today via Facebook and a district-wide phone message that Hart’s last day of school will…

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LANSING — The Michigan Historical Commission today announced it is accepting nominations for the Governor John B. Swainson Award. The prestigious Swainson Award is given annually by the Michigan Historical Commission to state, county or municipal employees who have gone above and beyond their official job duties to help preserve Michigan’s history. To recognize these contributions, in 1996 the Michigan…

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LUDINGTON — Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital will have electrical contractors on site Saturday morning, April 5, making some necessary routine repairs that could result in a brief shutdown of telephone service. According to Greg Soper, director of plant operations at the hospital, there is a very remote chance that telephone service could be down for less than ten minutes sometime…

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Today’s weather report is brought to you by Frontier Communications. High speed Internet starting at $19.99 a month. www.frontier.com; 1-888-770-6869.  Thursday, April 3, 2014. The area is under a winter weather advisory until 4 a.m. Friday. An area of freezing rain was expected to spread northeast into the area by noon. A tenth of an inch to a 1/4 inch of…

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By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. PENTWATER – A Whitehall man escaped serious injury after falling through the ice on Pentwater Lake this morning. The Oceana County Sheriff’s Office, the Pentwater Fire Department and Oceana Emergency Medical Services were dispatched just before 8 a.m. along the east end of Pentwater Lake.  Lester Hammond of Whitehall fell through the ice and was in the water…

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