Readers, The Independent aims to offer its readers a variety of news topics and our latest feature "LOL," is the latest effort to keep readers interested in what's happening in Arenac … more

CALIFORNIA — Standish isn’t the only place where the prospect of California prisoners being housed in the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (SMF) is being supported, as area natives who now … more

PINCONNING — The Pinconning Area School District Board of Education is in the process of evaluating two elementary schools and plans to close one at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. more

Updated March 16, 2010 at 3:19 p.m. STANDISH —House bills 5550-5554, which would allow communities to refinance debt, passed in the Michigan House of Representatives Tuesday, March 16, and they will now go to the Senate. more

STERLING — In the early 1980s, Winnie Winsten wanted to do something to help underprivileged children, and the Wertz Warriors provided just the vehicle for the Sterling resident to do that. more

ARENAC COUNTY — A 53-mile paving project along M-13/US-23, reaching from Bay County, near Kawkawlin, to the Iosco/Arenac county line and creating a non-motorized shoulder the entire 53 miles, got … more

PINCONNING — The Pinconning Library is slated to host a program in December designed to educate people about what may cause others to think about suicide, as well as intervention methods to deal … more

STANDISH — Common knowledge in Standish was that if the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (SMF) wasn’t holding federal prisoners or ones from another state by Oct. 1, it would officially be … more

AuGRES — The city of AuGres will have a few extra dollars to spend on sprucing up the downtown area after the city council reallocated around $550,000 in bond money, by passing a resolution at its annual meeting Tuesday, March 1. more

Jim Cruise aka the Spoon Man brought his spoons to Arenac County on June 24, performing at the AuGres Community Library and the Mary Johnston Memorial Library in front of children and their parents. … more