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Dowagiac Board of Education

Teachers offered buy-outs

Dowagiac Board of Education March 18 approved an early retirement incentive. “The incentive is $10,00 per teacher. If six teachers took the buyout, through attrition, ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:16 pm

Dowagiac Union Schools District

Intervention boosts literacy

Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first-graders. Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:09 pm

Dowagiac Board of Education

Dental clinic reaches out to schools

For five years, Van Buren and Cass County District Health Department has been putting together a state-of-the-art dental clinic at Don Lyons Health Center in ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:06 pm

Dowagiac Board of Education

Five February students saluted

  Dowagiac Board of Education recognized five February Students of the Month, including two future firefighters, Monday night in the middle school cafeteria. February students ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:43 pm

Dowagiac

Spring musical celebrates disco era

Dowagiac’s spring musical, “Disco Inferno,” brings parents closer to their children, who need advice on how to replicate the lurid fashions worn to dance clubs ... Read more

by John Eby, Sunday, March 17, 2013 6:27 pm

SMC

SMC hears about Pope Joan ahead of film

To talk on “4,000 years of uppity women” for Women’s History Month at Southwestern Michigan College Thursday, Dr. Mary Young-Marcks is fond of the Middle ... Read more

by John Eby, Friday, March 15, 2013 4:16 pm

Baja California

Baja Calif. ideal for birds, whales

Sarett Nature Center’s Chuck Nelson has led trips to every continent twice. Except Antarctica. He’s only been there once. Read more

by John Eby, Friday, March 15, 2013 4:06 pm

Gen. Bandholtz

Medallion returned to Philippines

A medallion worn by freedom fighter Emilio Aguinaldo, first president of the Philippines, was returned to the National Museum in Manila March 9 by a ... Read more

by John Eby, Friday, March 15, 2013 12:05 pm

Dear John

Dear John/Oppenheim’s cash register still works in Idaho

I recently purchased a cash register that came out of I. Oppenheim’s in Dowagiac. I live in north Idaho and a man brought it into ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, March 14, 2013 6:19 pm

Kubiak's Tavern

Kubiak’s Tavern turning 80

Thirty feet from Indiana, Kubiak’s Tavern at 80 isn’t that far from the feel of its Depression-era, 1933 origins, with original lights and seating, a ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:16 pm

Jones

Top-ranked skier from Marcellus

JONES — Marcellus freestyle aerial skier Zachary Surdell returned to Swiss Valley Tuesday evening before departing for the March 20 Junior World Aerial Freestyle Skiing ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:13 pm

Beer and Seed

Cox making indie films in Texas

  Bill Cox is nothing if not versatile. Who knew growing up on a Dowagiac hog farm that Cox could some day aspire to be ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:02 pm

Dowagiac Area History Museum

Museum membership fees set

Dowagiac Area History Museum, opening in May for Dogwood Fine Arts Festival, will be free of admission to exhibits, but will charge $5 per adult ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:06 pm

Southwestern Michigan College

Bookstore earns SMC scholarship money

Southwestern Michigan College’s expanded bookstore, rededicated Monday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, serves two purposes. Read more

by John Eby, Monday, March 11, 2013 4:37 pm

Cyberbullying

Dowagiac couple stalked online

Mocking messages started showing up on Facebook around Elizabeth’s 21st birthday on Jan. 5. Read more

by John Eby, Monday, March 11, 2013 1:44 pm

cass county board of commissioners

Edwardsburg could save $75,000 refinancing sewer bonds

CASSOPOLIS — Cass County Board of Commissioners voted 5-1 March 7 to allow the Village of Edwardsburg to save $75,000 on its $2.7 million sanitary ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, March 11, 2013 1:41 pm

cass county board of commissioners

Cass District Library adds services

CASSOPOLIS — Whether you want to download free Beatles music, learn Hindi or complete free courses online, all can be accomplished through Cass District Library. Read more

by John Eby, Monday, March 11, 2013 1:40 pm

cass county board of commissioners

Government officials to hear about casino

CASSOPOLIS — Cass County’s 22nd annual intergovernmental forum takes place at 6 p.m. April 25 at Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center. Read more

by John Eby, Monday, March 11, 2013 1:39 pm

Cardinal Charlie Gill

Cardinal Charlie: Don’t mess with blue-haired bingo ladies

  Director Ralph Haley was giving a lecture to band members at the football field when a grubby little waif who lived near the field, ... Read more

by John Eby, Friday, March 8, 2013 2:49 pm

cass county board of commissioners

Cass forms child rescue team

CASSOPOLIS — In the works since September, Cass County’s CART training — Child Abduction Response Team — is ready to roll with formation of a ... Read more

by John Eby, Friday, March 8, 2013 1:30 pm

News Main

Math in action

With Southwestern Michigan College on spring break, 180 Dowagiac, Cassopolis and Edwardsburg elementary students swarmed over its campus Thursday. It looked like a physical education ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, March 7, 2013 8:48 pm

Dowagiac Rotary Club

Tyler’s eyes opened in Guatemala

“Nothing in my life” prepared Lindsay Tyler for her “exceptionally eye-opening experience” of seeing how a public hospital in Guatemala delivers health care. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, March 7, 2013 4:19 pm

cassopolis

Open Arms is open again

Open Arms is open again. Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 7:51 pm

Dowagiac Police Department

Missing man was Dowagiac cop

Former Dowagiac police officer Fred Byrne remains missing. Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 6:37 pm

Sister Lakes Elementary School

Sister Lakes parents learn reading strategies

Teachers at Sister Lakes Elementary School want to offer parents ideas on how to work with their child at home. Kindergarten through second-grade parents were ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 6:33 pm

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