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Dowagiac Rotary Club

DUHS young women put their trust in strangers

Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) camp only lasts a weekend, so achieving trust is hastened by intense team-building exercises, such as climbing a rock wall ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:52 pm

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi

Pokagon Band shares culture with students

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Tribal Vice Chairman Bob Moody playfully asked busloads of Dowagiac and Niles students arrayed around the Rodgers Lake pow wow arena ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:49 pm

Chieftain Marching Band

Chieftains lining up to welcome MSU band

Dowagiac Band Director C.J. Brooks is trying to get as many fans as possible to line Paul Street at 6:30 Friday for the arrival of ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 10:17 am

Lyons Industries

Lyons Industries expanding due to rapid growth

With business up 75 percent this year after a record 2012, Lyons Industries Inc. breaks ground Oct. 2 on a 32,000-square-foot expansion which will increase ... Read more

by John Eby, Sunday, September 15, 2013 4:35 pm

Criminal justice

SMC launches Criminal Justice program with 60 students

Three Intro to Criminal Justice classes filled almost as soon as they were added to Southwestern Michigan College’s fall schedule. Read more

by John Eby, Friday, September 13, 2013 5:25 pm

Alliance for Excellent Education

Crime rates linked to educational attainment

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michigan could save as much as $695 million in annual crime costs if its high school male graduation rate increased by 5 ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:53 pm

District 6360

Rotary District Governor stresses engagement

As one of Rotary’s “water boys,” who delivered safe water to 200,000 in the Dominican Republic, local club members and their Interact counterparts at Union ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:50 pm

Lewis Cass Intermediate School District

Local districts brace for consolidation

CASSOPOLIS — Local educational leaders will be in Lansing Monday to learn more about state Supt. of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan’s five-year proposal to consolidate ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:47 pm

Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce

Make a scarecrow for ‘Harvest Moon’ Oct. 12

Families, friends, students and co-workers, along with business owners are invited to make whimsical scarecrows that will be placed on display in downtown Dowagiac. Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 7:31 pm

cass county board of commissioners

Elsey opens bookkeeping business

Wendy Elsey might have called her new business Gumshoebox Bookkeeping because there’s an element of detective work to her specialty, digging through boxes or bags ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:59 am

Creekside Greenhouse

Collins reflects on guarding celebrities

If protecting some of the biggest names in entertainment for six years taught O’Brien “OB” Collins anything, it’s that “money isn’t everything, money doesn’t make ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, September 9, 2013 9:11 pm

Liberty Chapel

Ryan’s fifth revival starting Sept. 19

Ryan’s fifth annual revival takes place at Liberty Chapel, 309 Dewey St., on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 6:30 p.m. with the Singing Cookes, who began ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, September 9, 2013 8:42 pm

Cass County Circuit Court

Double guilty verdict in murder trial

CASSOPOLIS — A jury of six men and six women deliberated almost three hours Friday before finding Keith James Lintz, 29, guilty of murdering John ... Read more

by John Eby, Friday, September 6, 2013 7:14 pm

Niles

‘Rock the River’ free concert Sunday

When Bob Seger sings, “All Chuck's children are out there playing his licks” in “Rock and Roll Never Forgets,” it’s a reference to Chuck Berry. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, September 5, 2013 10:18 am

"The Underpants"

Beckwith presenting Steve Martin farce

A 1910 German farce adapted by Steve Martin, ‘The Underpants,” opening a two-weekend run at Beckwith Theatre Sept. 20, sends up bourgeois snobbery and conformity. Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 10:18 pm

House of David

House of David plays seventh annual game against Penn

“Cranks” (fans) filled the stands for Friday’s seventh annual base ball exhibition between the House of David Echoes and Penn Township Fire Department at the ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:51 pm

Dr. Richard Shields

Former Dowagiac resident marks 30 years as Centreville dentist

CENTREVILLE — Richard Shields, D.D.S., is marking the 30th anniversary of opening his Centreville practice. Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 2:24 pm

Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital

Hospital bounces back quickly after fire

An “amazing” response to Thursday evening’s fire at Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital’s Comstock building “minimized” any negative impact. Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 1:58 pm

Dowagiac Black Family Celebration

Black celebration focuses on fixing families

Speakers at the reborn Black Family Celebration in Walter Ward Park Saturday offered a variety of explanations for “How Did We Come To This? How ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, September 2, 2013 4:14 pm

Obituaries

Louise Williamson, 81, of Dowagiac

Louise Williamson, 81   Louise Williamson, 81, of Dowagiac, passed away Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, at The Timbers of Cass County, Dowagiac. Arrangements are pending ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, September 2, 2013 10:09 am

Pokagon Band

Sixth annual water walk rests in Dowagiac

Melissa Foerster of Athens toted the copper kettle containing sacred water as the sixth annual Pokagon Band women’s water walk wended its way to Dowagiac ... Read more

by John Eby, Friday, August 30, 2013 2:12 pm

Alliance for Smiles

Rotarian attended Lisbon convention

A lifelong farmer, Wilber Breseman disliked the bull fights in Madrid, Spain. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:12 pm

Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital

Fire damages hospital rehab clinic

A fire Thursday evening scorched the clinic in the front lawn of Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital on West High Street. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:52 pm

Cass County

Dowagiac getting a theater

Nine months from now Dowagiac should have a movie theater downtown again. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:56 pm

Cass County Minority Coalition

Cass County celebrating diversity Sept. 8

CASSOPOLIS — With the theme, “Come Tell Your Story,” celebrating the cultures that make up the fabric of the community, the Minority Coalition of Cass ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:00 pm

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