Back in the 'unique' summer of 2020 when, fresh from four months of empty school buildings due to COVID hysterics and the very real prospect of virtual learning looming for the upcoming school year, the Ludington Area School District (LASD) was set to choose which companies we would pay to construct a new $40+ million elementary school out in what used to be the school forest.  LASD was admirably transparent about these contracts, and in our …See More

The agenda packet for the July 14th, 2025 meeting of the Ludington City Council showed the first readings of nine separate ordinances and not a lot of other business in front of the body.  Six of those would deal with tax levy and appropriation ordinances for a budget that has yet to be…See More

                                    Christopher Marsh and daughter along Lake Michigan in LudingtonNear the end of last summer, four high school seniors rose to the occasion and became heroes, rescuing a man from drowning at Ludington's Stearns Beach.  We immediately recognized their efforts…See More

Kudos to an anonymous member of the Ludington Pitchfork, our sister site on Facebook, who noticed that a crop of new signs has popped up along the perimeters of our public marinas with a simple message:  NO FISHING.  These are relatively new signs with one of the members relating that they saw marina personnel putting them up around a week ago.  In the picture below, we see four of these signs, one in…See More

Our little town of Ludington made the national news again, but it wasn't any kind of feel-good story unless you're on the side of pointless resistance against the forces of law and order.  Ryan Louis Mosqueda, whose official address is just outside the Ludington city limits in PM Township, reportedly ambushed and opened fire on border patrol agents and other law enforcement in McAllen, Texas, injuring at least one in the process, and getting killed for the effort.  Mosqueda, 27, has a deep…See More

Appreciating the patriotic pride of the local FOE who have placed a giant flag on their exterior, even covering a window, and leaving it up even after the city's celebration of Independence Day, in an apparent nod to the 250th year commemoration.