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Local Animal Nonprofit Carves Out Location for Permanent Home

By Rosemary Horvath Herald Correspondent A volunteer organization whose mission is to improve the lives of animals now has its own forever home. Gratiot Animals in Need,...

Aerial Patrols of Transmission Lines

ITC will be conducting aerial patrols of the high-voltage transmission structures and lines in Michigan from approximately Sept. 11 – Oct. 11, weather permitting....

Child Advocacy Offers a Series of Events During National Suicide Prevention Month

By William Meiners Herald Staff Writer  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48,183 people died by suicide in the United States in 2021....

County to Replace Emergency Management Coordinator

By Rosemary Horvath Herald Correspondent Gratiot County Emergency Management is searching for a new leader as Mike Soltis has submitted his resignation as coordinator. The job opening...

Alma College Offers Master of Arts in Special Education

By Tim Rath Alma College Communications  Students will learn the skills needed to become special education teachers in Alma College’s new Master of Arts in Special...

Honoring Gratiot’s Past

The Murder of Bernice Blank - Part Two By Elizabeth VanDyke Early in 1936 George Blank was in the Gratiot County jail, charged with the murder...

Out of the Herald Archives

Gratiot Area Jaycees took calls and pledges totaling $7,328 from local residents during the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy on Labor Day, 1973....

over the Back Fence

 One of the advantages of having some Michigan newspaper publishers exchange papers with us each week is that we can use (steal) their ideas...

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Gratiot Animal Scramble Sale Tops $88K

Michael MacDonald Herald Editor More than $88,300 was raised at last Sunday’s Gratiot Animal Scramble sale, the culmination of a youth...
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COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT COSTS QUESTIONED

Rosemary Horvath Herald Correspondent Gratiot Commissioner Steve Sopocy didn’t hold back skepticism over taxpayers financing an expanded countywide bus system. He and...

Fourth-Generation Insurance Agency Expands in Ithaca

William Meiners Herald Correspondent Simmet Insurance Agency, a fourth-generation family business with roots in Gratiot County dating to 1920, has expanded...

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Gratiot Animal Scramble Sale Tops $88K

Michael MacDonald Herald Editor More than $88,300 was raised at last...

COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT COSTS QUESTIONED

Rosemary Horvath Herald Correspondent Gratiot Commissioner Steve Sopocy didn’t hold back...
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