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Mid-Michigan families still living in RVs, campgrounds after flooding
Within minutes, Cindy and Brian Matthias' Billings Township home was filled with water up to their ankles. Like several families throughout Midland County, Cindy Matthias and her husband were left displaced after the May 19 flooding event. The couple, both 63, are currently living in a travel trailer parked in the yard of their Ostlund Drive home, accompanied by their two dogs and cat. After… → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Wednesday, July 8 11:18 p.m. -- A deputy made contact with a 62-year-old Midland Township man in reference to unwanted text messages he received from his 62-year-old wife. The man said he no longer lives with his wife and had questions… → Read More
Edenville Dam spillway concerns date back to 1993
Concerns over the spillways at Edenville Dam predate Boyce Hydro's ownership, which began in 2006. At least three times before then, officials from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission warned the dam's spillways were not capable of passing floodwaters during the "probable maximum flood," or the largest theoretically possible flooding event. Though it was the cataclysmic flooding event on May… → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Thursday, July 2 11:58 p.m. - Deputies were dispatched to a Mills Township location in reference to a suspicious man standing under a light post at an intersection. The deputies checked the area and were unable to locate the man. 9:52 p.m.… → Read More
Motorcycle passenger killed in Sunday afternoon crash
Deputies from the Midland County Sheriff's Office are investigating a crash between a motorcycle and a pick-up truck that claimed the life of a 29-year-old woman on Sunday. The crash took place on Waldo Road north of Monroe Road in Larkin Township at about 12:57 p.m. July 5. According to the sheriff's office, 30-year-old David Rousseau, the driver of a 2002 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, was… → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Monday, June 29 9:17 p.m. - A deputy responded to a single-vehicle property damage accident in Porter Township. 7:27 p.m. - A deputy made contact with a 49-year-old Ingersoll Township woman who reported her 53-year-old Lee Township… → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Sunday, June 28 11:01 p.m. - Deputies, MidMichigan EMS and the Jerome Township Fire Department responded to a Village of Sanford residence for a 51-year-old Sanford man who had overdosed on suspected drugs. 10:53 p.m. - A deputy spoke with… → Read More
Midland County joins countrywide VoteSafe program
Midland County recently became one of the latest in a long list of counties, townships and cities across the country to join the effort of making voting during the COVID-19 pandemic as safe as possible. On June 25, Midland County clerk Ann Manary joined other clerks from mid-Michigan counties at a social-distanced press conference in Frankenmuth to announce their support for VoteSafe Michigan,… → Read More
Hit-and-run victim identified as missing Midland woman
The victim of a fatal hit-and-run incident on Friday has been identified as a 42-year-old Midland woman. According to a press release from the Midland Police Department, officers took a missing person's report early Monday morning of a woman who had not been seen since Friday. Once the report was taken, police investigators looked into the possibility that the missing woman was the victim of a… → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Thursday, June 25 10:12 p.m. - Officers responded to a vehicle crash in the area of East Patrick Road and South Saginaw Road. 9:45 p.m. - A deputy was sent to Homer Township for a report of people shooting guns without a backstop. Contact… → Read More
Breckenridge man dead after Sunday night crash
Sheriff's office deputies are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a 21-year-old Breckenridge man on Sunday. → Read More
Midland County adds no new COVID-19 cases on Saturday
Midland County recorded no new confirmed coronavirus cases in Saturday's state report, maintaining a pandemic total of 119 cases and nine deaths. → Read More
Timeline: Dam owners clashed with state for years over mussel population
Even before last month's momentous flooding event that struck Midland County after the failure of the Edenville Dam, the owner of the dam system had feuded with the State of Michigan for years over how to regulate the Tittabawassee River ecosystem. Just three weeks before the dam failure, both the state and Boyce Hydro had entered litigation regarding the energy company's alleged failure to… → Read More
A story from our inseparably interconnected community
"I don't think I can get happier than this." That isn't something you would ordinarily expect to hear from a woman standing in the shell of her family home, which was all but destroyed by flooding a month earlier, but Penny Tyler - and the situation she has found herself in - is anything but ordinary. Like at unfortunately high number of her fellow Sanford residents, Tyler's life was turned… → Read More
Police investigating possible hit-and-run fatality
On Friday, June 26, at about 10:41 p.m., an officer from the Midland Police Department was on patrol in the area of westbound U.S.-10 near Ashman Street when he located a deceased body in the roadway. → Read More
Midland County COVID-19 case total lowered by one
Midland County recorded one less confirmed coronavirus case in Friday's state report, bringing its pandemic total to 119 cases and nine deaths. Bay County recorded two more cases, and is now at 347 cases and 29 deaths since the pandemic began. Gladwin County added no new cases, and Isabella County added two, bringing their pandemic totals to 26 cases and one death, and 98 cases and eight deaths,… → Read More
Severe storms, possible tornadoes in forecast for Friday night
The National Weather Service in Detroit/Pontiac has issued a "hazardous weather outlook" regarding potential severe weather today across Midland County. → Read More
Sanford surprise: local flood victim to get new home
A month after her family home was ruined by floodwaters, a Sanford woman had her life changed again on Wednesday afternoon, this time for the better. → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Sunday, June 21 11:49 p.m. -- Deputies were dispatched to a Coleman residence in reference to a 71-year-old woman who reported her 99-year-old mother with dementia had left their residence on foot and was missing. Deputies quickly located… → Read More
Midland County crime log
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff's Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka. Thursday, June 18 10:42 p.m. - A deputy assisted EMS in Hope Township with a 73-year-old man, who was involved in a farming accident. 10:19 p.m. - Officers responded to a vehicle crash in the area of East Sugnet Road and Jefferson Avenue. 9… → Read More