TAWAS CITY – At the regular meeting of the Tawas Area Schools (TAS) Board of Education held on May 9, the Board voted unanimously to accept the resignation of Toby Suttle as Tawas Area High School and Middle School principal, effective June 30.
EAST TAWAS – As a reminder, a Veterans Benefits Fair will take place this Thursday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be hosted in Rushman Hall, located at 821 Newman St. in East Tawas.
LANSING – State Rep. Sue Allor, of Wolverine, announced she will host a local office hour this month in Iosco County.
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OSCODA — The Oscoda track and field teams served as hosts to a North Star League meet on Tuesday, May 10. Hale, Whittemore-Prescott and AuGres also made the trip in the meet.
TAWAS CITY — The Tawas Area softball team hosted its annual home tournament on Sunday at Dewey Durant Park. The Lady Braves played a pair of low scoring games, bust lost both contests.
TAWAS CITY — The Tawas Area girls’ soccer team needed a win on Friday against visiting Ogemaw Heights to control their own destiny in the Northern Michigan Soccer League East Division race. Th…
HALE — The Hale baseball team played at home against Posen in a North Star League Little Dipper twinbill on Thursday. The Eagles had a good day, and were able to come up with wins in both cont…
The Tawas Area golf team played at home against John Glenn in a nine-hole dual match on Tuesday, May 10, at Red Hawk Golf Course. The Braves were able to get the win over the Bobcats, with a t…
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CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN – At Thursday’s meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission at Crystal Mountain, the commission approved a fishing regulation change regarding lake trout and splake i…
MIKADO – The Pine River-Van Etten Lake Watershed Coalition (PRVEL) is welcoming and encouraging volunteers to join them for an event on Tuesday, May 17, starting at 9 a.m.
LANSING – A quiet spot in your backyard, a thicket or a patch of tall grass – these all are places where fawns have been found. If you do come across a fawn this spring, don’t touch it. Accord…
OSCODA/LAKE HURON: Pier anglers were catching mostly Atlantic salmon and walleye with a few lake trout. Most anglers were having luck with minnows. Some anglers were casting spoons, jig heads …
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(The Center Square) – In April, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asked the Michigan Supreme Court for declaratory and injunctive relief from the state’s 1931 law banning abortions, claiming the law violated the 1963 state constitution.
(The Center Square) – The Michigan Economic Development Corp. and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday announced they were disbursing $1,264,000 of taxpayer dollars for two projects in Battle Creek and Redford.
MichiganVotes.org is a free, non-partisan website created by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy to provide concise, non-partisan, plain-English descriptions of every bill and vote in the Michigan House and Senate. This report was released Friday, May 13.
Burglary – defined as the unlawful entry of a structure, such as a home or business, to commit a theft or felony – is the most serious nonviolent offense tracked by the FBI. There were just over 1 million burglaries reported in the United States in 2020, resulting in billions of dollars in stolen property. […]
GOP lawmakers moved quickly to pass a $2.5 billion tax cut plan through both chambers Thursday, while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Democrats push her $500 rebate plan. This is the second time this year that Republicans who control the Legislature and the Democratic governor have squabbled over tax policy during what’s already been a […]
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After a year off due to COVID-19 concerns last year, Perchville USA returned to the Tawases for its 71st annual rendition. This video is of the Perchville parade on a sunny Saturday morning, Feb. 5, 2022 taken in downtown East Tawas, Michigan. It was a balmy 10 degrees out when the parade re…
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Here’s the latest for Saturday, May 21: US, SKorea open to expanded drills to deter North; Milley tells West Point cadets technology will transform war; First formula flights due to leave Europe for US; Refugee sells artwork to raise funds for Ukraine.
TAWAS CITY — Teacher Nichole Plank of Clara Bolen Elementary School won the World’s Finest Chocolate $2K Giveaway for Outstanding Educators.
EAST TAWAS – Suzan E. Nemeth has published her first book, “Timmy’s Adventure: How Lucky Am I?”
EAST TAWAS – Volunteers with the American Legion are holding their annual Poppy Days fundraiser May 26-28.
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The 2021 special section for Veterans Day includes veterans information for Iosco County, as well as some of the stories covered over the past year concerning Iosco County's many veterans activities.
