Courier-Leader & Flashes

The Van Buren County Road Commission closed on Monday, March 13, to honor employee René Rangel, Jr., and attend his funeral in Decatur. Rangel was struck and killed Friday morning,…

     We received a Christmas card and letter from longtime friends, and in it they wrote about returning to Orchestra Hall for the first  performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in nearly…

I play a lot of tennis, and Novak Djokovic, the best in the game, and maybe the G.O.A.T, is a hero of mine. Like Jordan in basketball or Brady in…

Eaton employee Alicia Smith is a 2023 inductee into the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Smith coaches at Mattawan High School. Intelligent power management company Eaton…

By Paul GarrodStaff Writer LAWTON – A young child who brought a bag of methamphetamine to school led to the arrests of the youngster’s parents, according to a press release…

Funeral services were held March 4, at Paw Paw High School’s Performing Arts Center for Paw Paw firefighter, Lt. Ethan Quillen, who was killed last month while responding to a…

    We see labels everywhere.  If we go into a grocery store we for labels so we know whether we are buying canned peaches or canned mystery meat.  Sometimes we read and compare…

Why are we still supplying Ukraine with taxpayer money and weapons? Wouldn’t the hundreds of billions of dollars we have sent to fight the proxy war against Russia, be put…

The Mattawan boy basketball team finished off the SMAC West Division championship with Saturday’s win over St. Joseph. by Ben MurphySports Writer Mattawan boys outlast St. Joseph to win SMAC…

A Celebration of Life for Verna Joy Carroll of Lawton will be held Saturday, March 11, at 11 a.m. at Lawton Evangelical Church.  A time for family visitation will precede…

Sharon Kay Aernie, 66, of Mattawan, passed away Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023.She was born Nov. 9, 1956, in Kalamazoo, the daughter of Edward O. Arnold and Mary Emma (Menz) Arnold.Sharon…

Wilbur W. “Sonny” Jarvis, Jr., 90, formerly of St. Joseph, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, at his home in Paw Paw.Funeral Services & burial were held 2 p.m., Thursday,…

By Paul GarrodStaff Writer PAW PAW – “He was the definition of what the Paw Paw Volunteer Fire Department is,” said the Paw Paw Fire Chief in recalling Paw Paw…

Members of the Paw Paw Fire Department are in mourning as evident of the black buntings placed above the fire department building’s door. Fire Department Lieutenant Ethan Quillen was killed…

Growing can be a real pain, sometimes. What you once remembered with ease, you now forget.Case in point occurred last weekend. My significant other and I had booked a concert…

    For a number of years, we have been seeing news reports about our southern borders.  Unfortunately, we have overlooked the fact that we also have a northern border with Canada.  It’s easy…

by Ben MurphySports Writer Mattawan boys notch another winThe Mattawan boys basketball team rolled to their 17th win of the season on Friday. They were playing at Stevensville Lakeshore in…

Charles Moden was honored by Lawrence Public Schools on his 90th birthday, Feb. 17, as the high school gymnasium was named in his honor. Moden is shown with John Guillean,…

COLUMBIA TWP. – Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott reported that Sheriff’s deputies assisted the Department of Homeland Security with executing a search warrant at a residence in the 09000…

Tessa Bunch Eric White Christopher Hewitt James Williams Paul Chamness Robert Thomas By Paul GarrodStaff Writer ANTWERP TWP. – Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott reported that on Nov. 29,…