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The bridge collapsed in May when two Midland County dams failed.

GLADWIN COUNTY – Businesses throughout Gladwin County have been faced with a constant struggle to survive since March 2020, and each business is facing different hardships than their neighbor. As 2021 approaches, people, including business owners, look for a fresh start and hope for a brighter year. However, without any declaration from the state government, a fresh start is hard to do for business owners.  Since March, Michigan residents have been in and out of periods of lockdowns and shut-ins that have been frequent enough for many to not know when it’s okay to go out and when...

GLADWIN – If you were in downtown Gladwin between 4:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. on December 18 through December 23, you may have seen a group of people strolling along caroling. The Dickens Downtown event hosted by the Gladwin County Chamber of Commerce featured a host lamplighter each evening. The lamplighter dressed in Victorian attire, lit the lights in each of the lanterns from the Country Corner Bulk Foods store to Riverwalk Place and back to the Hall-Kokotovich Funeral Home.  The host lamplighters were Cory Barz, Chamber Board Member and Chair; Sydney Compton, Miss Beaverton; Bret Rob...

Midland County reports 64 cases Tuesday Region reports 14 deaths Dec. 29, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. Th...

Nine months after devastating flooding, Central Michigan residents are left abandoned It has now been nearly nine months since the breaching of the Sanford, Smallwood, and Edenville dams and subsequent dike failures along the Tittabawassee River in Central Michigan. Boyce Hydro LLC was the private owner of these dams and was responsible for the state of disrepair that led to their breaching in May. State authorities were intimately aware of the decaying and dangerous state of the dam, as shown through decades of safety violations and the revocation of Boyce’s electric production license by ...