Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
BESSEMER - A small group of area residents gathered at Saint Sebastian School Tuesday for the second week of the Michigan State Police's citizens academy.
The academy is an eight-week course designed to expose citizens to the various capabilities of the MSP.
"Basically, it's to give more information to the general public on who we are in the state police - all the different services we provide," said Jerry Mazurek, the community service trooper with the MSP's Wakefield post. "It's education, and mostly to understand why (the MSP does what it does)."
Mazurek said the first week of the class con...