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April 21, 1921 Complaints, which are as reliably annual as the blooming of the arbutus, are being made that seekers of this spring flower are following their usual tactics of taking bloom, stem and roots, thereby robbing the region of one of its big spring attractions. To cut the stems of arbutus brings about a healthy growth of the plant but to pull up the entire plant means that no plant will replace it next year. Although most of this destructive work is done by thoughtless children it is no...

Scot MacNeill A Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer on Sunday used a tourniquet to stop blood loss from a 22-year-old Scottville man, who was recovering Monday in an area hospital from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooting occurred Sunday morning on U.S. Forest Service-managed land that is available for target shooting, east of Manistee in Manistee County. Conservation Officer Scott MacNeill — the first emergency responder on scene, spoke with the...

LAKE CITY — Missaukee County EMS is finding itself overextended by providing mutual aid ambulance services to Wexford County. Mutual Aid services are commonly established to allow either county to help the other out when needed. Wexford County had an agreement with North Flight, now superseded by Mobile Medical Response (MMR) to provide ambulance services to that county. However, the merger has not been without its hiccups, which Missaukee EMS director Aaron Sogge believes are due to a sta...

CADILLAC — Simply put, it just wouldnt practical, either efficiency-wise or from a financial standpoint, to have a dedicated "on-call" ambulance stationed at the Colfax-Greenwood Fire Department. These are the cold, hard facts of the situation but they are no comfort for residents of Colfax and Greenwood townships, who worry that the absence of an on-call ambulance in the area will lead to longer response times and potentially lost lives. During a fire board meeting on Monday attended by r...

CADILLAC — One person was taken to the hospital Monday and two pets were saved during a fire at a Bond Street residence in Cadillac. The Cadillac City Fire Department was dispatched at 9:02 a.m. to the fire located at Bond Street home in Cadillac, according to a press release from Lt. Mike Fisk. Firefighters arrived on the scene at 9:06 a.m. to find the only occupant of the residence had exited the home. The fire quickly was contained and extinguished. Fisk said fire crews were able to res...

Dec 13, 2020 TRAVERSE CITY — Making Traverse City Fire Department the city’s primary emergency management services transport provider would be a costly undertaking. Buying two new ambulances, as would be needed, would cost up to $500,000 for both, according to a study by TriData. Then, the city would need to spend $755,000 to $1,548,000 on staffing to add seven to nine employees to each shift. That doesn’t include the costs of modifying Stations 1 and 2 to accommodate the larger ...