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Blindfold Canoe Race participants stay mostly dry in 2024
OSCODA – Eight teams of three competed for bragging rights and paddles during the Blindfold canoe race held the evening of Monday, July 22. Team FBC was the first to launch their canoe from the riverbank behind the AuSable River Store. Paddlers in the first and third position in the canoe were blind folded with the second position instructing the paddlers on how to navigate across the river around the buoy and back.
National Lighthouse Day 'early' celebration announced at Tawas Point State Park
EAST TAWAS – Friends of Tawas Point Lighthouse and State Park are inviting the public to come join the fun as they celebrate National Lighthouse Day early on Saturday, Aug. 3. “Although the official National Lighthouse Day is celebrated each August 7 commemorating the anniversary of the federal lighthouse...
TBP slate auditions for comedy
EAST TAWAS – Upcoming auditions for the Tawas Bay Players show “The 39 Steps” will be held on Aug. 14-15 at 6:30 p.m. at Tawas Bay Playhouse, 401 Newman St., East Tawas. Needed for the show is one man, one woman and seven other parts that can be men or women ages 18 and older. Some cast members will be doing multiple parts.
Tawas Uncork'd to celebrate 15th festival year on Aug. 3 in East Tawas
EAST TAWAS – The Tawas Uncork’d Wine, Ale and Food Festival will be marking its 15th anniversary this year, when the 2024 event gets underway on Saturday, Aug. 3. With five full hours of fun on tap, the festival has been slated from noon to 5 p.m. and will again be hosted under a large tent in East Tawas Harbor Park, located downtown near the Newman Street and US-23 intersection.
Cardboard Canoers show community spirit
OSCODA – As the heat of the day dissipated last Wednesday evening, this year’s second annual “all in fun” Cardboard Canoe race – one of the pre-launch activities leading up to the AuSable River Canoe Marathon – was held on the banks of the AuSable River at the Oscoda Canoe Launch. Four contestants were ready to compete, with more than 150 supportive onlookers in the crowd.
OTB extends Superintendent Tammy Kline's contract to Aug. 12
OSCODA – In a vote of 5 to 2 with Treasurer Jaimie McGuire and Trustee Tim Cummings voting no, the Oscoda Township Board of Trustees voted to extend the resignation date for Superintendent Tammy Kline. The action took place at the board’s regular meeting on Monday, July 22.
Cecilia ‘Cel’ Clark, 83, of Hale
Cecilia (Cel) Mae Clark entered eternal life in the presence of both of her daughters and her husband at dawn on Sunday July 21, 2024. Cecilia was born June 29, 1941 in Milan, MI, the daughter of the late Glenn and Marie (LaPrairie) Simpkins. She graduated from Milan High School in 1959. She attended Central Michigan University and graduated with a degree in Education in 1964.
Oscoda prepares to welcome hundreds of canoers for annual AuSable River Canoe Marathon
(WPBN/WGTU) -- The AuSable River Canoe Marathon starts this weekend in Grayling, but crews at the finish line in Oscoda are prepping for the big crowds as well. Finish Line Park is quiet now but come Sunday, thousands of marathon enthusiasts will be gathered to see who out of the hundreds of paddlers will win this year's race.
ET approves lights over Newman Street
EAST TAWAS – In keeping with the Tawas area’s July 4 fireworks theme, “Light Up the Bay,” the East Tawas Business Association (ETBA) began a project stringing lights over Newman Street. The project was initially submitted to the East Tawas City Council at their first meeting in July, which City Manager Brent Barringer followed up on at the council’s most recent meeting, on July 15.
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