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 ...
johneby, Author at Leader Publications
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
