CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONHoughton Lake’s sixth grade basketball teams captured a Mid Michigan Youth Basketball League championship Saturday at Houghton Lake High School. The sixth graders had two teams play ...

CHECKING THEM INToys for Tots volunteers (left to right) Kelly Bowman and Carolyn Pietchak greet a parent receiving toys for Christmas in December, 2018. Pietchak and her late husband, Wendell Pietcha ...

UPPER ELEMENTARY STUDENTS OF THE MONTHDecember Students of the Month for Collins Upper Elementary School for third through sixth grades are (front row, left to right) third grader Zoey Gust-Medeiros f ...

1968 ARCTIC CAT PANTHERDoug Lubahn of Lapeer, a member of the Ogemaw Hills Snowmobile Club, brought a 1968 Arctic Cat Panther P-18, complete with a pull-behind camper, to Tip-up Town for the display. ...

SNOW DAYRiley Mayberry, 9, who lives in Prudenville, but attends Gladwin Community Schools, enjoyed a snow day Monday with her younger sister, Aleah, 6. The sisters, who were playing in a large snowpi ...

CLEAN OUT OF THE STARTING GATEThe Houghton Lake Bobcats’ precision in Round 1 earned them a score of 221.2 points. They were on the heels of the first-place Norway Knights team, which earned 229.7 poi ...

ON TARGETHoughton Lake freshman Keagan Barnum (5) lines up a 3-point shot as Roscommon’s Brenden Gilliam (10) rushes to defend it during the opening half of the Bobcats’ contest with the Bucks Feb. 12 ...

Roscommon juniors Crew Tyler and Toby Bigford are regional champions. The pair won individual wrestling titles at regionals Saturday at Charlevoix. The pair will join teammates freshman Kasen Spencer.

LOWER ELEMENTARY STUDENTS OF THE MONTHNovember Students of the Month at Collins Lower Elementary for kindergarten through second grade are (front row, left to right) kindergartner Keaten Walsh from Am ...

Houghton Lake sophomore Mason Langlois will return to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 4 State Individual Wrestling Finals this season. Langlois took fourth at regionals Saturda ...

McBain’s Peyton Grant hit a half-court buzzer beater to lift the Ramblers over Roscommon by a point Feb. 14, 47-46. The win effectively ended Roscommon’s hope of a Highland Conference championship as ...

Spring is just over a month away…as is Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of in ...