The May 17th St. Joseph County Democratic Party meeting will be held at Arrowhead Cove Bed & Breakfast, 51400 Cove Road, Mendon, Michigan.  Arrowhead Cove is on the east side of Portage Lake. Pizza and salad will be served at 6 p.m. with a business meeting beginning at 7. All Democrats are welcome. Election year planning and budgeting [...]

Sheree Sorensen, a 2nd grade teacher at Eastside Elementary School in Constantine, received a $300 YAC grant from the Constantine Foundation two years ago to plant a flower garden in a corner of the school. “I thought the corner looked bare and thought, ‘This would be a perfect way to beautify the school.’” Her garden [...]

A 47-year-old Vicksburg man has been lodged in the Kalamazoo County Jail following a pursuit in Schoolcraft last night. According to a news release from the Schoolcraft Police Department, at 11:17 p.m. Wednesday, Schoolcraft Officer Matt Britton contacted the Vicksburg man at the McDonald’s Restaurant on N. Grand St. in Schoolcraft.  Officer Britton had stopped [...]

With the 56th Annual Three Rivers Water Festival just over a month away, deadlines for participants draw even nearer. One of the first deadlines is just around the corner, that being applications for participation in the annual street parade; the deadline for parade applications is Friday (May 11). This year’s Water Festival theme is “Ahoy, [...]

Three Rivers “Fund” Walks – short, lunch time walks to help raise money for the Three Rivers Relay for Life – are set to begin Friday (May 11). Participants will walk through the Three Rivers downtown and city parks to raise money for the local American Cancer Society Relay for Life event. The walks will [...]

CENTREVILLE – Three instructors at Glen Oaks Community College are now tenured Professors. The announcement was made Wednesday (May 9) at the May Board of Trustees meeting. The changes in status went to Professor of Mathematics Michael Sandelin, Professor of Communications Steve Ryno, and Professor of Psychology Chad Worthington. Each educator passed a four-year probationary [...]

Proposed elimination of a media specialist with the Centreville Public Schools prompted a show of support for the employee by students and parents during a special meeting of the Centreville Board of Education Tuesday evening (May 8th). For more on the story from Jef Rietsma and the Sturgis Journal, click on the following link:  Centreville [...]

The proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013 – a period that will begin July 1st – was in the spotlight during a nearly two-hour special meeting of the Three Rivers City Commission Tuesday evening (May 8th). During the early portion of the session, Finance Director Cathy Lawson utilized a series of slides in a PowerPoint [...]

Van Buren State Park (Van Buren County) will sponsor its annual Go Get Outdoors “Step Into Summer Fun” 5K Run and Walk on Saturday, June 16. The run begins at 9 a.m. in the south parking lot of the day use area followed by the walk, which steps off at 9:05 a.m. The course for [...]

The 17th annual ‘Empty Bowls Soup Supper’ added to the project’s record of fundraising success by generating $3,619 – money that will benefit the Emergency Care Network (ECN) food site in Three Rivers. Judson Stemaly, an elementary art teacher, and Jennifer Hackenberg, a kindergarten teacher at Norton Elementary School, reported the results of this year’s [...]

Voters in the White Pigeon school district have strongly endorsed renewal of a three-mill sinking fund tax levy for another five years – 2012 to 2016. Unofficial results from Tuesday’s (May 8th) balloting show that – with three of four voting precincts reporting – the millage drew affirmative votes from nearly 69 percent of those [...]

The Three Rivers Board of Appeals will consider two sign variance requests during a meeting at 12 noon Wednesday (May 9). One request is from MarketPlace North, LLC which is proposing to rebuild the sign that has been in place for many years at North Main Street and Enterprise Drive.  In documents accompanying the variance [...]

Experience the dramatic highs and lows of the War of 1812 on the Great Lakes at the recently-opened “War on the Great Lakes,” a new exhibition at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven, Michigan. The Michigan Commission for the Commemoration of the War of 1812 has sanctioned the exhibit as a major commemorative event. [...]

At the Monday night (May 7) meeting of the Constantine Public Schools Board of Education, Athletic Director Mike Messner urged the board to train the student body in life saving techniques. Messner recently attended an Athletic Director’s Conference to be honored for serving in athletics for 20 years. One session at the conference dealt with handling emergency situations. “Most people are [...]

Next Sunday, May 13, is Mother’s Day, a day set aside each year to honor the lady responsible for giving us life. My mother has been gone for over twenty-five years now, and I still miss her every day. If your mother is still alive, let her know how much she means to you, and [...]

Bargainers for the Three Rivers Community Schools and the school district’s teachers have reached a ‘tentative agreement’ on a new, two-year contract. That was the report from Superintendent Roger Rathburn in his ‘Superintendent’s Tidbits’ during the Three Rivers Community Schools Board of Education meeting Monday evening (May 7). Rathburn noted that negotiating teams from the [...]

The Michigan Department of Transportation has announced lane closures in Vandalia and Three Rivers. In Vandalia, the center turn-lane of M-60 will be closed and eastbound M-60 traffic will be shifted between Christian and Maple streets from 8 a.m. Tuesday (May 8th) through 4 p.m. Friday, June 29th, for sidewalk reconstruction. In Three Rivers, there [...]

State Representative Matt Lori, who chairs the subcommittee on Community Health, will be at the Edwardsburg American Legion located at 25751 US-12 in Edwardsburg Tuesday (May 8th) at 7:30 p.m. to discuss Community Health and its impact. He will also be available to answer general questions from the audience. Bring your neighbor and learn some very [...]

Southwestern Michigan College is hosting a Student Housing Information Night Wednesday (May 9) at the Dowagiac campus. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and is open to all prospective students and their parents. Prospective students and their parents will be able to tour SMC’s on-campus housing and Student Activity Center, as well as fill out [...]

Governor Rick Snyder has proclaimed May 6-12 as Arson Awareness Week in Michigan to focus public attention on the seriousness of firesetting by young people and the importance of preventing such behavior through collaborative community effort. This year’s theme is Prevent Youth Firesetting. “Fire in the hands of children can result in devastating consequences,” said [...]