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The recently resurfaced County Building parking lot has a new designated area for people to use for child custody exchanges or meeting up with sellers for online sales transactions in an open and recorded setting.
Sheriff Ryan Swope said he first saw a “safe exchange zone” in North Carolina...
The Wilderness Trail Fire – a blaze that burned more than 2,400 acres in Crawford County during the weekend of June 3-4, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources – was “100 percent contained” as of Tuesday, June 6, the DNR recently reported.
At 5:44 p.m. on June 6, the...
Frederic Music Festival organizers are bringing back the two-day concert event on June 23-24.
The Frederic Music Festival was last held in 2019. The event was cancelled in 2020, 2021, and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to organizers.
The 2023 Frederic Music Festival is...
A large wildfire forced evacuation of homes, an electricity shutdown, and the closure of roads (including a portion of I-75) on Saturday as the blaze burned thousands of acres of land in Crawford County.
At 6:34 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported...
American Legion Post 106 of Grayling and members of the community honored fallen U.S. military veterans during an annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Elmwood Cemetery on Monday, May 29.
Larry Domcik, American Legion Post 106 Commander, said the event went well overall and turnout was strong...
Grayling High School hosted a commencement ceremony for the Class of 2023 on Sunday, June 4, at Viking Stadium, celebrating the accomplishments of a group that had more than 4,600 community service hours and earned more than $900,000 in scholarship money.
The Grayling High School band played...
John Wejrowski of Grayling and more than 70 other veterans travelled to Washington D.C. on May 17 with the Mid-Michigan Honor Flight and had an opportunity to visit several monuments and other areas of interest, but Wejrowski said one of the biggest highlights of the trip for him was the ovation...
The National Guard Bureau recently responded to a December 22, 2022 letter from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) Gaylord Office that said the PFAS investigation at local military sites whas been too costly to the state and is not making enough progress.
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The Grayling Main Street program is conducting a search for a new executive director as its current director – Jill Tremonti – moves to a different job at Michigan Main Street within the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
Tremonti’s official last day as Grayling Main Street executive...
A group of Grayling Middle School students conducted a class service project at the Grayling Fish Hatchery on Tuesday, helping with an effort to put native plants by one of the trout raceways at the historic facility.
Tuesday marked year two of a five-year project to put native plants at five...