Say Goodbye to Ma Deeters in Luzerne

Floyd Robertson wrote:Arson? Natural disaster? Fire training exercise?

kingstonlake wrote:Building burns in northern Michigan ghost town.

Are we sure a cop didn't shoot an unarmed kid?

LooseGoose wrote:

kingstonlake wrote:Building burns in northern Michigan ghost town.

Are we sure a cop didn't shoot an unarmed kid?

For clarification: Luzerne is not a gHost town, no foreign nationals are molested here.

Sunshine Tweedly and her husband, Ray, took over the bar in the late 1980's and owned it for around 23 years. The last three years she owned it, Sunshine lived on the bar's top floor. She sold it three years ago.

"That's what I wanted Ma Deeter's to do, is to go on forever," Tweedly said. "There's so many memories in this bar. It's just unbelievable. I've been crying since 5 o'clock this morning since friends have called me. It's just so heartbreaking."

It's also heartbreaking for many Luzerne residents who have countless memories there.

"Being able to sit out on that deck, hear the music, just watch traffic go by, have a nice drink, (and) a nice dinner, you couldn't get any better than that in northern Michigan," Dawn Nichol, Luzerne Express manager, said. "It really was an amazing place to be. She will be sadly missed."

"We really need this in our town," Jody Polk, a Luzerne resident who went to the bar for more than 20 years, said. "We're just a small community but we had a name here with Ma Deeter's."

An iconic Northern Michigan bar and restaurant is preparing to reopen.

Ma Deeters in Luzurne in Oscoda County will open its doors Tuesday afternoon.

The original Ma Deeters burned down in October.

The log building stood in Luzurne for nearly 100 years and became a landmark in the area.

Now, almost a year after the fire, the restaurant has been rebuilt and is ready for customers.

Northern Michigan's News Leader will have a crew there, bringing you live reports at 5 and 6.

kingstonlake wrote:Building burns in northern Michigan ghost town.

Are we sure a cop didn't shoot an unarmed kid?

OSCODA COUNTY, Mi (WPBN/WGTU) -- A decades old restaurant and bar is back from the ashes, Ma Deeters is officially back open for business Tuesday.

A devastating fire last October burned the historic restaurant in Luzerne down to the ground.

Staff with Ma Deeters say they’ve been cleaning face imprints from windows and fielding calls from curious customers all day and are eager to be back to normal.

Ma Deeters has fed people in northern Michigan since 1921 and staff there say it’s important to the community they’re finally back.

"I mean, it's Luzerne, it's Ma Deeters, you have to put something that's been in this community forever back,” said General Manager Brian Smith with Ma Deeters. “It wasn't really a question it was just how fast can we get it started."

Smith says they tried to keep as much the same as possible both inside and out and that includes the staff. All but one staff member have come back to work for Ma Deeters.

Triple Sparty wrote:Nice! Just need some snow!!