LINED UPDN-class iceboats line up on Houghton Lake for this year’s DN Central Region Championship Regatta Jan. 5. The 38 participants in the annual race were divided into two “fleets.” Twenty-three bo ...

LEAPING INTO THE COLDBraving the icy waters of Houghton Lake for the 34th Annual Tip-up Town Polar Bear Dip, Houghton Lake’s Kathy Lepper leaps into her plunge Saturday. Lepper was among 105 people wh ...

Collins Elementary students in grades K-6 participated in a coloring contest with Outdoor Equipment Company. The winners were ...

Siblings Abel and Olivia Coleman had a huge pile of prizes to take back home with them to Higgins Lake after winning big at ...

Miss Houghton Lake contestants will compete for the 2025 title in a “Disco Fever”-themed program Feb. 1 at Houghton Lake ...

NINE COMPETING FOR MISS HOUGHTON LAKEMiss Houghton Lake contestants will compete for the 2025 title in a “Disco Fever”-themed program Feb. 1 at Houghton Lake Junior/Senior High School. Pictured are (f ...

AMERICAN DRONESOne hundred drones coordinate in the sky over Houghton Lake during the first Saturday of Tip-up Town, U.S.A. Shelby Harris of Firefly Drone Shows said the drones are made in ...

Ashley Chmielewski of Roscommon has been named to Ohio Dominican University’s fall, 2024, dean’s list. To make the dean’s list, students must have achieved a 3.5 GPA or better. Chmielewski is a 2022 ...

CHRISTMAS TREE DONATIONKoreen Pray (center, left), owner of Kabinetree Koncepts, Houghton Lake, presents Roscommon County Victim Services Unit advocate Sandy Egbers (center, right) with a $500 donatio ...

FIRST AND THIRDOlivia Coleman (right) won first place in the walleye total catch category (2.64 pounds) and Abel Coleman won third place (1.02 pounds) in the panfish total catch category.

After dropping a pair of contests earlier in the week, Houghton Lake finished last week with a varsity girls basketball win over Marion. The Bobcats started the week with a 49-26 non-conference loss ...

PIE TIE?Two contestants raise their hands simultaneously in a pie-eating contest at the Tip-up Town Outdoor Games Stage Sunday. The event was one of many held last weekend at TUT, which found “kids” o ...