Joan O’Hare Murray, of Houghton Lake, died on Friday, February 14, 2025, at her home. Joan will be laid to rest with her husband at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan, at a later date.

Marilyn Bienz, a resident of The Brook of Houghton Lake, looks surprised as she receives a flower from Doug Stockwell of the ...

Alumni of the Roscommon High School – and Gerrish-Higgins High School – basketball program gathered during halftime of the ...

The Bucks secured their ticket to the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Division 4 State Team Wrestling Finals with a regional championship win. During the regional match, which was held Feb ...

By Cheryl Holladay Denton Township police officer Nathan Traver has been promoted to sergeant. At the Denton Township Board’s Feb. 5 meeting, Supervisor Dave DenBoer said Denton Township Police Chief ...

Houghton Lake freshman Keagan Barnum (5) lines up a 3-point shot as Roscommon’s Brenden Gilliam (10) rushes to defend it during the opening half of the Bobcats’ contest with the Bucks Feb. 12. Barnum ...

Roscommmon junior Alexis Carper (33) lines up for a shot under the basket as Houghton Lake’s Jayden Peel (5) and Ayscia Bailey (32) look to defend her during the opening half of a rivalry meeting ...

The Houghton Lake Bobcats’ precision in Round 1 earned them a score of 221.2 points. They were on the heels of the first-place Norway Knights team, which earned 229.7 points in Round 1 and finished ...

Submitted by the Michigan Press Association Spring is just over a month away…as is Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of ...

Doug Lubahn of Lapeer, a member of the Ogemaw Hills Snowmobile Club, brought a 1968 Arctic Cat Panther P-18, complete with a pull-behind camper, to Tip-up Town for the display. He said he grew up ice ...

McBain’s Peyton Grant hit a half-court buzzer beater to lift the Ramblers over Roscommon by a point Feb. 14, 47-46. The win effectively ended Roscommon’s hope of a Highland Conference championship as ...

Kelly Bowman and Carolyn Pietchak greet a parent receiving toys for Christmas in December, 2018. Pietchak and her late husband, Wendell Pietchak, a Cpl. Jack A. Davenport Detachment 684 of the Marine ...