After three decades of serving as the county administrator, Fabian Knizacky is set to retire on February 1st.  Our best remembrance of Knizacky would be that he was always able to respond quickly to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and never charged a dime for the service.  In this way he was much like Scottville City Attorney Tracy Thompson, who advised his city's city managers that charging the public for FOIA requests was counterproductive.  Such gestures show that their public…See More

On January 7, 2025, Rob Alway in the Mason County Press (MCP) came out with an article telling us that Scottville's police department comes at a high price to taxpayers.  Subtitled: "As the City Commission faces a nearly $500,000 deficit, one of its police officers is one of the highest paid cops in the county", it went on to tell us about the…See More

On the night before a dramatic regime change in the United States, we urge media and citizens who depend on politically-stilted resources to do their own fact-checking before they present their political opinions based on faulty premises in front of everyone else.  A recent letter from a local triggered our inner editor, and inspired us to write this piece and publish it to show how fake narratives have divided our country, and why we should never publish such misinformation unless your only…See More

You may have heard of the deaths this year of Bob Uecker and David Lynch, two eccentrics of the sportscasting and director fields, but this last week hit closer to home, we lost a longtime contributor to the Ludington Torch who first joined us back in 2014:  Shinblind.…See More

The January 13, 2025 meeting of the Scottville City Commission was historical in that the five members of the depleted commission unanimously decided, without any regard to the public's opinion, to take the steps needed to dissolve the Scottville Police Department (SPD) and replace it with the same county sheriff coverage as Eden Township receives.This monumental act of…See More