Roscommon County Sheriff’s Office deputies received a report in November of money being stolen from the room of a resident at The Brook of Roscommon. According to a Dec. 30 press release from t... You ...

Mary Lynn Ricketts, 71, Higgins Lake, formerly of Midland, died Dec. 13, 2024, at her home, surrounded by family. A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, Dec. 29, at 3 p.m. at Ruckle’s Pier, 405 N.

Greetings residents of Crawford, Oscoda, Ogemaw and Roscommon counties. I hope you are enjoying our win ...

STUDENT INTERACTIONHoughton Lake Junior/Senior High School Student Senate member Tyler Watson (standing) asks the students in Carol VanHaitsma’s second grade class if teacher cadet Hailey Gasper’s sto ...

CLAPPING ALONGCharlton Heston Academy kindergarteners sang “S-A-N-T-A” during the Charlton Heston Academy Winter Concert Dec.

After a several months-long moratorium on new storage units in the township, the Roscommon Township Board adopted a resolution which amends its Zoning Ordinance regulating storage ...

LOOKING TO DISRUPTHoughton Lake junior Andrew Partenio (15) works to corral Gladwin’s Seth Mead (10) as Gladwin’s Trace Corlew (11, not pictured) attempts to set a pick on Partenio. Partenio was prais ...

‘WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS’Our Lady of the Lake Regional Catholic School preschoolers sing “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” in the school’s Advent musical, “A Christmas Carol,” performed the aftern ...

READING TO THE FIRST GRADERS2024 Miss Houghton Lake Abby Partenio reads “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell!” by Lucille Colandro, to first grade students in Leslie Greer’s class. Partenio, al ...

The Roscommon County Board of Commissioners, at its Dec. 18 meeting, passed the 2025 budget which includes $11,486,840.78 in revenues and $11,295,849.02 in expenses. This ...

HELPING THOSE WHO HELP OTHERSDon Croff of American Legion Post #96 and Dave Luck, commander of VFW Post 4159, recently presented checks totaling $2,000 to members of the Roscommon County Sheriff’s Off ...

INVITING DISPLAYThe Michelson Town Hall, with a lighted wagon frame in the foreground, was one of the many buildings in the Houghton Lake Historical Village that were decorated with lights, inviting v ...