Dowagiac

Technology at Kincheloe

By CATHY STONE Principal   Students at Kincheloe Elementary use technology daily to learn and practice a variety ...

Dowagiac

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 ...

Dowagiac Union Education

Sister Lakes parents learn reading strategies

Teachers at Sister Lakes Elementary School want to offer parents ideas on how to work with their child ...

Dowagiac

Starfish Stories/Claudia Zebell

  I have had the honor and the privilege of knowing Claudia Zebell for many years.  She actually ...

Dowagiac

Local teacher lobbying Congress

Dowagiac substitute teacher Jennifer White heads to Capitol Hill Saturday to lobby Congress March 4-6, including U.S. Rep. ...

Dowagiac

Pat Ham recording own songs

In 2012, Mr. Billy made kids music history by recording and releasing 12 compact discs in 12 ...

Dowagiac Union Education

Two retiring from schools

Dowagiac Board of Education received two retirement notifications Monday night at the middle school from Margaret Schmidt, transportation, ...

Dowagiac

January Students all girls

Six girls were honored as Students of the Month for January Monday night by the Dowagiac Board of ...

Dowagiac

Swisher Ionia’s corrections manager

A Dowagiac graduate is Ionia County’s new community corrections manager.

Dowagiac

43 freshmen ‘making the grade’

  Forty-three Union High School freshmen earned all A’s and B’s first semester of the 2012-2013 school year. ...

Dowagiac

Starfish Story: Jeff Winters

Jeff Winters is a student advocate at DMS, and day in and day out, he walks the halls ...

Dowagiac

Justus Gage exposing engineering

Nancy Leonard combines paying it forward with old-fashioned payback introducing Justus Gage Elementary School to engineering.

Dowagiac

Bogen wins state award

Union High School junior Nick Bogen was almost late for Dowagiac’s Christmas parade receiving Michigan’s “Teenage Coordinator of ...

Dowagiac Union Education

DUHS honor roll, first marking period

  DOWAGIAC UNION HIGH SCHOOL FIRST MARKING PERIOD – 2012/13   Freshmen All A’s   Burns, Jessica Kiggins, ...

Dowagiac

Starfish Stories No. 8/Kara Cox

    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hatred cannot drive out hatred. Only ...

Dowagiac

‘Chieftains’ on the chopping block

Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil ...

Dowagiac

Get to know new Miss Dowagiac

  Amanda Hassle prepared for the “Once Upon a Time” pageant by learning to walk in high heels. ...

Dowagiac

District looks to reverse enrollment trend

  Sagging enrollments put Dowagiac Union Schools on a fiscal cliff of its own. The school board at ...

Berrien County

Retired Dowagiac teacher wins state fair award

  BERRIEN SPRINGS — A retired Dowagiac teacher’s 43 years of volunteer service at Berrien County Youth Fair earned ...

Dowagiac

Starfish Stories No. 7/freshmen mentors

  Dowagiac Union High School has been so greatly blessed by the recent addition of a team of ...

Dowagiac

Chieftain Heart given club status

A unanimous Dowagiac Board of Education granted Chieftain Heart club status Monday night at the middle school. “I ...

Dowagiac

Starfish Story No. 6 — Bonnie Latourette

  The Dowagiac school community has had to say goodbye to a valuable educator.  Bonnie Latourette has been ...

Dowagiac

Band wants second director restored

One person is not enough to adequately teach 230 to 250 musicians, Band Director C.J. Brooks told Dowagiac ...

Dowagiac Union Education

December students honored

Dowagiac Union Schools recognized six December Students of the Month in the middle school cafeteria Monday night with ...

Cass County

Dowagiac teen jailed for bringing weapons to school

A 17-year-old Dowagiac boy will serve jail time after police found two guns and a Ka-Bar knife in ...

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