The Three Rivers Area Community Foundation (TRACF) has awarded over $20,000 through scholarship endowment funds. The TRACF has been serving the Three Rivers area and surrounding townships since 1975.  Its mission is to build endowment funds and redistribute those investment returns back into the hands of the community.  By focusing on people, organizations, and sustainability, [...]

“Where are we with MASB?  Do we have a meeting scheduled with them? These questions were posed by Susan Schmidtendorff, president of the Three Rivers Community Schools Board of Education, during the board meeting Monday evening (June 17).  Her queries came in regard to board action in April to contract with MASB – the Michigan [...]

The Southwestern Michigan College Board of Trustees held a public budget hearing, adopted the college’s 2013-2014 operating budget, accepted gifts and grants, awarded service pins, and conducted other business during its June 17 meeting held on the Dowagiac campus. After holding a public budget hearing, the Board of Trustees of Southwestern Michigan College adopted the [...]

The Three Rivers Community Schools Board of Education has adopted the 2013-2014 Preliminary Budget for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. The action came Monday evening (June 17) following a public hearing during which there were no citizen comments. The hearing – held prior to the regular board meeting – included a presentation by [...]

A two-hour free program on protecting lakes and natural shorelines will be presented at the Fabius Township Hall on Saturday, June 22, beginning at 2 p.m. The Township Hall is at 13108 Broadway Road, about two and a half miles west of U.S. 131. The program,  sponsored by the Fabius Township Environmental and Wetlands Protection [...]

The Three Rivers Community Schools Board of Education will consider budgetary matters during its meeting Monday evening (June 17). The board is slated to conduct an ‘open hearing’ on the 2013-2014 preliminary budget and receive a presentation on the spending plan during the hearing.  Later in the meeting, the board will consider adopting the budget [...]

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources invites those who would like to learn how to fish to attend a free “Hook, Line and Sinker” program offered at over 30 state parks and hatcheries across the state this summer. Experienced, friendly instructors will teach participants fishing basics, like knot-tying, casting, selecting and using bait, and removing [...]

The 32nd Classic Boat Show and Small Craft Festival at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven will feature historic craft on Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The whaleboat from Great Lakes Boat Building School will be there on its way to the Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. The Charles [...]

There’s ‘good news’ in regard to the open house scheduled for Saturday (June 15) during the 57th annual Three Rivers Water Festival! Jerry Barkley of Sturgis, Professor of Mathematics at Glen Oaks Community College and 4-H leader for blacksmithing with the Burr Oak 4-H Club, will demonstrate blacksmithing techniques and processes in the forge, located [...]

Roger Rathburn, superintendent of the Three Rivers Community Schools, and Mark Bielang, superintendent of the Paw Paw Public Schools, are still in the running for the position of Portage Public Schools superintendent. For an update on the subject from Julie Mack and MLive, click on the following link:  Portage school board narrows field to Paw [...]

Governor Rick Snyder signed the 2014 budget Thursday (June 13) – “a balanced budget and on time for the third year in a row.” In reporting on the budget signing, Mike Brownfield, Director of Social Media in the governor’s office, said, “Also for the third year in a row, Michigan’s budget included increased state funding [...]

The non-profit, Three Rivers-based organization *culture is not optional (*cino) has completed its purchase of the former Huss Elementary School! As noted in a Tuesday (June 11) post on The Huss Project website, “As of today at 3:15 p.m., we signed the final papers and received the deed to the historic Huss School building in Three Rivers, [...]

“The laws of supply and demand as they apply to the workforce are broken.” That’s the opening sentence to an interesting article by Jane C. Simons in MiBiz that reports on the thoughts of George Erickcek, senior regional analyst with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo.  Erickcek was the keynote speaker at [...]

Lawmaker: Students should be offered opportunity to pursue many paths to success, jobs State Rep. Aric Nesbitt Thursday (June 6th) praised House passage of two bills that will give high-school students who are planning for careers after graduation more flexibility to take vocational and technical classes. The House approved House Bills 4465 and 4466, which [...]

State Rep. Aric Nesbitt has commended the U.S. Department of Education for dismissing a complaint filed by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) that sought to prohibit the use of American Indian mascots, nicknames and slogans in the state’s K-12 schools. “While I’m relieved the federal government was able to see through this ill-conceived [...]

Special thanks to American Electric Power – Indiana Michigan Power (AEP) for its contribution to the Scidmore Park Petting Zoo Saturday programming. The City of Three Rivers notified AEP of the community’s desire to continue quality educational programming at no cost to the general public through its Saturday summer programs at Scidmore Park Petting Zoo. [...]

Roger Rathburn, superintendent of the Three Rivers Community Schools, and Mark Bielang, superintendent of the Paw Paw Public Schools, are among three finalists for superintendent of the Portage Public Schools. For more on the story from MLive and Julie Mack, click on the following link:  Portage school board to interview Paw Paw, Three Rivers, Farmington [...]

The White Pigeon Community Schools will host a ‘Community Forum’ on the 2013-2017 sinking fund timeline Wednesday evening (June 5th). The purpose of the meeting is to update the community on the progress of the current project and gather input on a proposed change t the original 5-year sinking fund timeline. Scheduling of the forum [...]

Michigan is water rich with abundant surface water and groundwater for recreation, drinking, industry and agriculture. Even in the midst of plentiful supplies, there are parts of the state where increasing competition for water, especially groundwater, is currently or will in the future make it harder to extract those resources without impacting other users and [...]

The Three Rivers Fire Department is pleased to announce they will be hosting a FREE CPR/AED Training on Saturday, June 22nd, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, on Coon Hollow Road in Three Rivers. Training will be limited to the first 50 pre-registered participants who must be at least [...]