Walker Tavern Historic Site in Brooklyn will host its 6th annual Civil War re-enactment weekend, May 12-13. This year’s event, highlighting the Battle of Eltham’s Landing, is presented by military and civilian re-enactors from across the state. Sponsored by the 5th Texas Company E, the USS Michigan Marine Guard and the Friends of Walker Tavern, [...]

LANSING, MI – Gov. Rick Snyder and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan Thursday (May 3) said that the student enrollment cap for cyber schools contained in Senate Bill 619 clearly is the Legislature’s intent and will be enforced. The bill, which allows for a phased-in expansion in the number of cyber schools, was [...]

Kalamazoo Valley Community College is collaborating with the State of Michigan’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the Workforce Development Agency to offer a unique, one-day services and benefits fair for military veterans and their families. The Mobile Vet Center will host an event on the college’s Texas Township Campus on Thursday (May 10) [...]

There’s a light agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (May 7). Two items of Unfinished Business are listed: Update from ProForm Update from Sewer Ad Hoc Committee The meeting will get underway at 7 p.m. in the Constantine Village Hall.

The Three Rivers City Commission will hold a special meeting for a FY 2013 budget hearing on Tuesday (May 8th) at 6 p.m. in the Commission Chambers of City Hall, 333 West Michigan Avenue, Three Rivers, Michigan.  The Commission will also consider setting a public hearing for the City Code User Fee Ordinance. To view [...]

In the course of my listening to Friday’s (May 4) Morning Edition on National Public Radio (NPR), I ran across an interesting story on the topic of banning bake sales in view of the substantial increase in childhood obesity in recent years. What do YOU think?  Should bake sales be outlawed? If you’d like to [...]

David Reyes-Camargo recently received a new Apple iPad in conjunction with an online survey. David’s name was drawn from a pool of Glen Oaks Community College students who participated in an online survey looking at substance abuse usage and perceptions.  The survey was part of a grant that the SJC Substance Abuse Taskforce received from [...]

The Constantine Police Department reports TWO upcoming road closures in the Village of Constantine: Centreville Road is scheduled to be closed at the railroad tracks from May 8th until May 12th Florence Road is scheduled to be closed at the railroad tracks from May 12th until May 15th.

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Great Lakes Commission have announced nearly $27,000 in grants to fund river, stream, and creek cleanup events around the state. Michigan’s Volunteer River, Stream and Creek Cleanup program provides $500 to $5,000 grants to local units of government to improve Michigan’s waters by cleaning up rivers, streams, [...]

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Great Lakes Commission has announced eight organizations have been chosen to receive volunteer water quality monitoring grants under the MiCorps Program. The MiCorps Program was established to involve and assist the state’s volunteer water quality organizations with water quality assessments, protection, and stewardship of Michigan’s lakes [...]

The Three Rivers City Commission again has a full complement. Lawrence “Larry” Matson – appointed to fill the Third District commissioner seat left vacant by the Ken Baker’s resignation – was sworn in by City Clerk Lindsay Howes just prior to the start of the commission meeting held Tuesday evening (May 1).  (Lindsay Howes and [...]

The Downtown Infrastructure Grant (DIG) project involving the ‘Mural Mall’ will be in the spotlight during the May meeting of the Three Rivers Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Friday morning (May 4th). Steve Bishop, Project Manager with Fleis & VandenBrink Engineering, Inc., the firm working with the City of Three Rivers and DDA on the project, [...]

The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced TWO road closures: MUSKRAT ROAD Beginning Saturday, May 5th @ 6:00 a.m. until Monday, May 7th @ 6:00 a.m. the railroad crossing on Muskrat Road between US 131 and 15th Street will be closed for repairs.  Detour routes would be 15th Street to YZ Avenue to US [...]

Kalamazoo, MI – Early in the campaign Jack Hoogendyk sent a registered letter to Rep. Upton’s campaign headquarters challenging the congressman to six debates across the district.  On February 17th, Fred Upton’s campaign said the following in an email response to the request for six debates. “We are glad to discuss a debate schedule with [...]

It was ‘standing room only’ in Probate Judge Thomas Shumaker’s ‘Courtroom B’ in Centreville Tuesday (May 1st) – Law Day – as friends, family and associates gathered to honor Eva Sylvester as the recipient of the 2012 St. Joseph County Bar Association Liberty Bell Award. Sylvester, St. Joseph County Probate Register, has worked in the [...]

West Street will get new curb on both sides following action by the Three Rivers City Commission Tuesday evening (May 1) to accept a change order from Northern Construction Services Corporation in the amount of $56,250. West Street is currently under construction in conjunction with a water main replacement project and the west curb, plus [...]

The Michigan Department of Transportation reports that traffic will be regulated by a flagging operation on US-12 between M-60 and Edwardsburg in Cass County from Monday, May 7, through Saturday, June 30, for shoulder reconstruction.

“Some exciting news for the City of Three Rivers and a significant milestone.” This is how Fire Chief Dan Tomlinson of the Three Rivers Fire Department (TRFD) described an accomplishment he reported on during the Three Rivers City Commission meeting Tuesday evening (May 1). The accomplishment?  The awarding of ‘ISO Class 4’ status, effective in [...]

LANSING – Senator Bruce Caswell would like to inform residents about a program called the Military Family Relief Fund.  This program, administered through the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, offers financial support to active duty Michigan military personnel and their families if they face a need for financial assistance during their time of [...]

Ken Baker was recognized Tuesday (May 1) for 40 years of service to the City of Three Rivers. A late afternoon celebration in the City Hall lobby – complete with two cakes and punch – was followed by activity at the outset of the Three Rivers City Commission meeting in which Mayor Tom Lowry read [...]