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After sitting through roughly five hours of two meetings — the Mason County Board of Commissioner’s work session on senior services and the Council on Aging’s recent meeting — one of the conclusions that popped up right away was the old adage that tops this column:

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CUSTER — Mason County Eastern’s boys basketball team saw Baldwin jump to a quick lead after the first quarter as the Panthers went on to win, 62-45, in Western Michigan D League play Wednesday in Custer.

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Ludington’s boys basketball team is entering a critical stretch of games in the next week, and it starts Friday night when the Orioles host Whitehall in a West Michigan Conference Lakes Division contest.

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If you’re on the receiving end of an email from the City of Ludington, you’re likely seeing the colorful logo to mark the city’s birthday this year.

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When William Chye crossed the 1,000-point plateau Tuesday night, he joined an exclusive club at Mason County Central, and truly, for basketball players in Mason County.

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This was supposed to be some thoughts about a column penned in August 2020 in light of tomorrow, the two-year anniversary of riots at the Capitol building that delayed the certification of the electoral votes officially making Joe Biden president.

We’ve reached the point of the basketball season for the holiday tournaments, showcases and more, and they dot the schedules of teams around our region.

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Looking back at 40-plus years of life, it’s clear that as you grow older, Christmas traditions evolve, change or simply go away.

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For at least one day, and even a few around Thanksgiving, the warmth and joy of the Christmas season was on display around town.

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With word that Carrom announced that this was the final year of making both its well-known Carrom boards and the Nok-Hockey, it was an easy call to look through some of the negatives in the Daily News archives to see what we can find.

As a reporter, you’re told you’re not the story. In this instance, this is a story about those around me.

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Halloween is approaching — if the displays on lawns, the kids in costumes and so much more weren’t clues already — and it was time, once again, to crack open the photo negative archives here to see what we could find.

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Regular readers of the Daily News — especially the Opinion page and then some — are likely seeing the numerous letters to the editor that we’ve been publishing.

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The folks who work to update the title banners in Hawley Gymnasium are going to be very busy in the off-season.

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Given that outside Thursday morning, there’s a smattering of clouds with their own bursts of rain and hopefully somewhere there’s a bit of sunshine peaking through, it’s similar to how life seems to be going.

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Given that this weekend is summer’s last hurrah for most families, and the attention starts to turn to fall, it seemed like the right time to take a look back at one of the primary ways visitors get here and we head out for parts beyond Mason County.

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Tucked away, near the intersection of St. Mary and Lakeview streets in the Ludington, is the well-kept lawn and gardens of the James family.

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Once the roofing project is completed at the Mason County Courthouse, it might not be enough in spaces to support what is ahead inside the building.

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Anyone that’s driven past the old Paulina Stearns Hospital on Washington Avenue in Ludington likely would try to imagine how a building that size could handle the numerous medical ills of not just Ludington, but also the larger Mason County community.