Dowagiac

Returning school board members sworn into office

Meet the new board, same as the old board. The community had a chance to meet the “new” ...

Columns

November Starfish Story: Rob True

All day long, I talk to my students about being a Chieftain Hero, and I see and hear ...

Dowagiac

Local students team up with The Young Americans for one-night performance

Nearly 200 Dowagiac students joined professional singers and dancers with international performance group The Young Americans on-stage at ...

Dowagiac

Designs for high school renovation nearly complete

More than a year after the community cleared the way for construction through the passage of a $37 ...

Dowagiac

Union High School recognizes freshmen for academic excellence

Another batch of new Dowagiac Union High School students were recognized Tuesday for their success inside the classroom ...

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Dowagiac Union High School honor roll

Freshmen 4.0 GPA Cromer, Kylee Davis, Jenna Gaideski, Mekenna Hemenway, Arika Nelson, Matthew Rogalski, Jossalyn Wilson, Cristian High ...

Dowagiac

Community invited to free Harry Potter event

After inviting children to a galaxy far, far away last month, staff with the Dowagiac District Library invites ...

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Students create dioramas for Native American history

Third grade students in Kim Montgomery’s social studies class at Sister Lakes Elementary finished their dioramas for Michigan ...

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Donations, housing needed for upcoming Dowagiac school program

While professional performers and local students will be the ones taking the stage when The Young Americans return ...

Dowagiac

Kincheloe students raise money for injured classmate

For most people, the pennies, nickels and dimes jiggling inside their pockets or purses do not mean much. ...

Columns

October Starfish Story

Being a substitute teacher is a hard job — as is being a classroom aide, a parapro, or ...

Cassopolis

Local high school students learn more about dentistry

Many high school students view trips to the dentist office about the same way they feel about writing ...

Dowagiac

Marching band completes best season in program history

Correction: Edited a reference to the band’s recent Division I rating. While the Dowagiac Union High School football ...

Dowagiac

Local volunteers helping feed Justus Gage students

While the goal of every elementary school is to fill developing minds with new knowledge about the world ...

Dowagiac

A sweet gesture

No one is too young to give back to community, as demonstrated by the actions of several Dowagiac ...

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Volunteer of the Week: Matt Severin, Dowagiac Optimist Club

Matt Severin, of Eau Claire, is the principal of Dowagiac Middle School and a member of the Dowagiac ...

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Dowagiac September students of the month recognized

The Dowagiac Union Schools Board of Education honored the district’s students of the month for September during its ...

Dowagiac

School hosts migrant parent resource fair

Sister Lakes Elementary hosted its annual parent resource fair for local migrant families last week, with a total ...

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High school teacher resigns after sending inappropriate messages to students

The leadership of Dowagiac Union Schools has recently accepted the resignation of a Union High School English teacher ...

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Dowagiac bus driver expresses complaints over pay wage to school board

The men and women responsible for keeping the wheels of the Dowagiac Union Schools bus fleet spinning are ...

Dowagiac

Union School staff raises awareness for breast cancer

After the community came out in droves to support its hometown team — and the local fight against ...

Dowagiac

Honor provides funding for middle school afterschool program

Janie Reifenberg, the branch manager of Honor Credit Union in Dowagiac, stopped by Dowagiac Middle School earlier this ...

Columns

Kincheloe PTO making a difference

“A single, ordinary person still can make a difference — and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every ...

Dowagiac

Annual cancer awareness game scheduled for Friday

D&R Sports owner Randy Melvin has kept himself quite busy the last several days, as shirts sporting shades ...

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Popular children’s author visits Dowagiac

In spite of having to juggle a prolific writing career, running his own youth camp and keeping on ...

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