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cass county board of commissioners

Cass board reconsiders March intergovernmental forum

CASSOPOLIS — Is Cass County’s signature event, the Intergovernmental Forum, on the chopping block? Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:45 pm

Patrick Hamilton Elementary School

Pat Ham volunteer survived Nazi Germany

Schools should be safe places, but Ursula Gustav was wary way before the “heartbreaking” massacre Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:37 pm

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Hunter Ice Festival Landing Page

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by John Eby, Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:42 pm

Gov. Rick Snyder

Snyder addresses deteriorating roads

Michigan’s commitment to jobs, people and good government makes it the nation’s comeback state. Seizing opportunities to further reinvent Michigan that await in 2013 will ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:58 pm

St. John's Lutheran Church

St. John’s enhanced security

St. John’s Childcare and Learning Center, 603 McCleary St., beefed up security, but not in response to the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:49 pm

Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce

Two new attractions planned for Ice Time

Ice Time, Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce’s 17th annual winter arts festival Feb. 2 in the central business district, will try again to launch two ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:46 pm

Dowagiac Union Schools

School breakfast business grows

Dowagiac lines up with state and national statistics that half the kids who are eligible for the federal free school lunch program also participate in ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:51 pm

Obituaries

Tim Ridenour, 65

Anthony “Tim” Wayne Ridenour, 65 Born: Sept. 17, 1947 Died: Jan. 14, 2013 Tim’s life began on Sept. 17, 1947, in Kalamazoo, the son of ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:49 pm

"Shades of Eva"

Skinner publishes first novel

Tim Skinner grew up in Niles, graduating from NHS in 1988, but now lives in Dowagiac, where he has taken appropriate steps to reside in ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, January 14, 2013 9:37 pm

HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’

Obesity series begins

Dowagiac Seventh-day Adventist Church, 410 Hill St., hosts a free screening of the four-part HBO documentary “The Weight of the Nation” tonight at 7. Read more

by John Eby, Monday, January 14, 2013 9:10 pm

Dowagiac Board of Education

Mathews fifth member of casino board

Southwestern Michigan College Board of Trustees Chairman Dr. Fred L. Mathews will be the fifth member of Pokagon Band’s Four Winds Dowagiac casino revenue-sharing board. Read more

by John Eby, Monday, January 14, 2013 9:02 pm

berrien county board of commissioners

Jail upgrade considered again

ST. JOSEPH — Berrien County Board of Commissioners’ Administration Committee voted 3-0 Thursday morning to recommend hiring an architect to upgrade the jail’s receiving area. Read more

by John Eby, Friday, January 11, 2013 2:13 pm

berrien county board of commissioners

Marine deputies’ lifesaving recognized

  ST. JOSEPH — One year flows into another. Berrien County’s Marine Division is taking applications for the 2013 season which must be received by Jan. ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:27 pm

C. Wimberley Auto Group

$13,000 food drive surpasses goal

C. Wimberley’s third annual feed the hungry blitz with churches “went off the charts,” raising more than $13,000 to smash its $10,000 goal. Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:59 pm

Lewis Cass Intermediate School District

LCISD mulls Headlee override

CASSOPOLIS — Lewis Cass Intermediate School District Board of Education is expected to place a half-mill Headlee Amendment override request on the Nov. 5 ballot, ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:55 pm

Legendary Songs 2013

Local Legends’ songs in running

Sixth Generation’s “This is the Time” leads another Niles notable, Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Crystal Blue Persuasion,” on this year’s Michigan Rock and Roll ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:33 pm

Dowagiac

Pokagon Band acquires Portage company

Mno-Bmadsen, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi economic development enterprise, Tuesday announced its acquisition of a Portage plastics engineering and tooling company. Accu-Mold Inc., 7622 S. ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 9:10 pm

News Main

Dowagiac graduate grows school in Dominican Republic

The Montessori school Sarah Ross founded three years ago in the Dominican Republic is growing, adding an Infants, Toddlers and Twos program in October. “It’s ... Read more

by John Eby, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 9:06 pm

Obituaries

Olive Jean LaPorte, 88

Olive Jean LaPorte, 88 Born: April 14, 1924 Died: Jan. 6, 2013 Olive Jean LaPorte, 88, of Cassopolis, died Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in her ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, January 7, 2013 8:14 pm

Fiscal cliff

Upton sees sequestration kicking in

  Congress kept the country from plunging off the fiscal cliff Jan. 1 with a two-month delay of automatic spending cuts called sequestration. U.S. Rep. ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, January 7, 2013 7:51 pm

Swiss Valley Ski and Snowboard Area

Swiss Valley preparing to open

Swiss Valley Ski and Snowboarding Area, 13421 Mann St., Jones, fired up the snow guns Wednesday in anticipation of belatedly starting its season this weekend. Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:14 pm

Cass County Sheriff's Office

Deer crash injures driver

CASSOPOLIS — A Detroit woman was injured Wednesday evening when a deer went through her windshield on M-51, just south of Saddlebred Lane in Pokagon ... Read more

by John Eby, Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:12 pm

News Main

Pet food drive collects success

Berrien County Animal Control’s second annual “Carols for Canines and Cats” on Christmas Eve contributed an estimated ton of food and found new homes for ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, December 26, 2012 10:23 pm

MARP

Progress made on high-speed rail

Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (NS) this month signed a sale agreement transferring ownership of 135 ... Read more

by John Eby, Wednesday, December 26, 2012 8:01 pm

Dowagiac

Lacey shares heritage

Rotary exchange student Tzu-Han Tsai has a twin sister living in France as an exchange student. “We don’t look alike,” she said. “She’s taller than ... Read more

by John Eby, Monday, December 24, 2012 4:45 pm

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