LUDINGTON ‐ Valarie A. Bergstrom has been promoted to vice president market leader for Manistee County. Bergstrom will be responsible for maintaining the Bank’s standard of providing a high level of service to customers in her supervision of retail employees. She will be responsible for coordinating the customer experience and assuring financial needs are being met in two West Shore…
HART — The “Lil’ Pirates” of Spitler Elementary School enjoyed watching their teachers get their heads shaved this afternoon as a reward for reading. The event was organized to celebrate “March is National Reading Month.” The students were initially given the goal of reading 20,000 minutes before March 27 to earn a fiesta celebration. But, a bonus goal…
Welcome to the World! Victoria Elizette Rodriguez, the daughter of Rebecca Fuentes and Juan Pablo Rodriguez, was born on March 22, 2014 at Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital. Your birth announcements and photographs are welcome. Please email them to editor@oceanacountypress.com. If your business would like to sponsor birth announcements, please contact our Sales and Marketing Director Pam Prior: pam@oceanacountypress.com.
PENTWATER — Pentwater Boy Scout Troop 1145 will hold its annual 24 hour Camping For Food Non-Perishable Food Drive. The camp-out begins Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. and continues until Saturday, March 29, at 5 p.m., on the Village Green. Area residents are encouraged to stop and donate non-perishable food items. Each year, the scouts hold the food drive to collect non-perishable…
Reservations due March 30 HESPERIA — An All Military Service Ball is set for Saturday, April 12, at the Hesperia American Legion Hall. Dinner is planned for 6 p.m. with music and dancing to follow. Everyone is invited to attend. The cost is $35 per couple or $20 for a single. Reservations are required by Sunday, March 30. To make reservations, or for more information, contact Darrell or…
HART – Meet local exchange students and learn about their countries while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and dinner during the Exchange Student International Dinner Thursday, April 24, beginning at 6 p.m., at Hart United Methodist Church, at 308 S. State St. Juan Ortiz Carrera, Hart Rotary Club’s youth exchange student, will provide a presentation about Ecuador, his home country. Sujaree “Garfield” Pogwattanakul, Shelby Rotary…
SHELBY — The Hot Club of Detroit jazz group conducted a workshop Friday afternoon at Shelby High School. The workshop was sponsored by West Shore Community College’s Performing Arts Department and included 300 students from five schools: Shelby, Pentwater, Hart, Ludington and Mason County Central. The Gypsy jazz ensemble performs Saturday night at West Shore Community College near Scottville. See…
SCOTTVILLE –The red hot Gypsy jazz ensemble, The Hot Club of Detroit, will be in “full swing” at West Shore Community College’s Center Stage Theater on Sat., March 22, at 7:30 p.m. Hot Club of Detroit is a one-of-a-kind jazz ensemble specializing in the Gypsy jazz sound made famous by guitarist Django Reinhardt. Hot Club of Detroit was formed in 2001 by…
By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART – The following were sentenced this week in 78th District Court: – Michelle Renee Hildebrandt, 44, of 8059 W Seapine Dr., Mears, was found guilty March 17 of operating while intoxicated. She was sentenced to outpatient treatment; 93 days discretionary jail; and $1,140 in fines and costs. Conviction is reportable to the Secretary of State. – Brandon Allen Loss, 20,…
LUDINGTON — Kayakers and canoeists who enjoy navigating the shoreline of Lake Michigan will find their voyage a little easier this year. The Sable Points Coastal Water Trail will debut. The trail is being spearheaded by the Mason-Lake and Oceana conversation districts. “We are traditionally known as an organization that works with farmers,” said Jordan DeVries, administrator of the Mason-Lake…
By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. HART — Detectives from Oceana County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a Hart man who is suspected in several breaking and entering incidents in Oceana and Mason counties. Daryl Eugene Essex, 32, has been charged with five multiple count warrants which include breaking and entering, home invasion, larceny of firearms, felon in possession of firearm and habitual…
By Rob Alway. Editor-in-Chief. VICTORY TWP., Mason County — West Shore Community College will raise its tuition beginning the fall semester. The increase, approved this afternoon by the college board of trustees, will increase in-district tuition from $83 per credit hour for in-district students to $86 per credit hour, a 3.6% increase. This is slightly above the average increase of…
HART — The Hart High School Drama Club presents Rogers and Hammerstein’s American classic musical “Oklahoma!” Show times are Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 23 at 2 p.m. A special Friday night “Soup and Songs” fund raiser will be held by Hart High School bands beginning at 5 p.m. The cast is…
Welcome to the world! Colten Francis Lee Smith, the son of Tarra Mobley and David Smith of Mears, was born on March 10, 2014 at Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital. Jake Guadalupe Galindo, the son of Maria Lucio and Juan Galindo of Hart, was born on March 14, 2014 at Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital. Your birth announcements and photographs are welcome.…
HART — Hart Public Schools has announced its plan to make up this year’s snow days. The school year will now end on June 6. June 3 and 4 will now become full days while June 5 and 6 will become half days. Good Friday, June 5 and June 6 will also include an additional 20 minutes of instruction. Each…
HART TWP. — Troopers from Michigan State Police Hart Post arrested a 25-year-old Mears man Thursday morning following a vehicle and foot chase. The incident began when a trooper attempted to stop a minivan on northbound U.S. 31 near the Oceana/Muskegon county line around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning. The vehicle was clocked at traveling 95 mph. The driver refused to…
By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — The following are recent proceedings in 78th District Court: – Kenneth Herman Wegner, Jr., 66, of 615 Sans St., Pentwater, was sentenced March 10 for operating while impaired, ordered to Alcohol Highway Safety Education (AHSE); 93 days discretionary jail; and $1,040 in fines and costs. Conviction is reportable to the Secretary of State (SOS)…
