ESSEXVILLE, Mich. (AP) — More than 30 students from the Bay-Arenac ISD Career Center swapped time in the classroom for real-life experience aboard the USS Edson. “I like getting my hands on a piece of ...

ESSEXVILLE, Mich. (AP) — The work is just beginning for the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship museum. The USS Edson Navy destroyer arrived recently, 15 years after efforts to bring a floating museum to Bay ...

BANGOR TOWNSHIP, MI — The USS Edson is on its way to Bay County, a journey of more than 2,000 miles from where it was moored in Philadelphia. A tugboat is towing the retired 418-foot naval destroyer ...

The John Alden Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution held its monthly meeting on Friday, March 13, at Grace A. Dow Memorial Library. The program on the USS Edson was presented by Jim Reha, the ...

BAY CITY, MI — Daniel Gokey last saw the USS Edson when he stepped off its deck as a U.S. Navy machinists mate on Jan. 2, 1976. The destroyer was moored in San Diego, Calif., and the stop marked the ...

BAY CITY, Mich. (WNEM) - A $10,000 grant has been awarded to the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum (SVNSM) to help restore an important piece of naval history. The Bay Area Community Foundation awarded ...

BAY CITY, Mich. (WJRT) - This Independence Day, people in Mid-Michigan are celebrating their freedom atop an actual navy ship in Bay City. Salute Cannons were fired to salute the nation on July 4 ...

BAY CITY, Mich. (WNEM) - Mid-Michigan community members honored 9/11 victims lost at the USS Edson in Bay City. Scouts across mid-Michigan were on the deck of the ship Wednesday evening for the ...

In years past, Bay City’s celebration of Veterans Day has typically been a small affair at the Bay County Building downtown. Not so on Sunday. This year the event was moved to the Wirt Stone Dock’s ...

BAY CITY, Mich. (WJRT) - With Halloween just around the corner -- you may be looking to get your fright on this weekend. And you might just find that aboard a Navy destroyer! ABC12 toured "The Edson ...

You'll be forgiven if the story of the USS Edson reminds you of an episode of "The Twilight Zone." Especially since the ship was actually featured in an episode of "The Twilight Zone." Commissioned in ...