By ELIZABETH FERSZT Contributing Writer The fate of the Hayes Hotel has been in dispute ever since the contract with developer J. Jeffers & Company expired Dec. 31, 2024. The Jackson City Council then sold the hotel to another developer, Collier Gibson, in February 2025. In March 2025, a 4th Circuit Court judge ruled in Read More…
By Maggie LaNoue, Contributing Writer Albion’s trees are coming down from multiple directions. The city is culling aged and dangerous trees along boulevards and in parks. Windstorms have snapped trunks in wooded neighborhoods. Warmer winters are allowing insects and diseases to persist longer than they once did. Against that backdrop, Kary Gee of Gee Farms Read More…
By Maggie LaNoue Contributing Writer Every day, nearly three million gallons of water flow into Albion’s wastewater treatment plant. The problem is that only about half of it should be there. Albion’s pump stations move roughly 1.4 to 1.5 million gallons of wastewater through the city’s sewer system each day. But the treatment plant receives Read More…
STURGIS — The Sturgis Trojans boys’ golf team won their County Cup golf match against Three Rivers Wednesday afternoon, scoring 5.5 to the Wildcat’s 2.5, breaking a three-year streak by Three Rivers in the match play competition.Gavin Lewis won five and three against Three Rivers’ Grady McDonough, Owen Frost was victorious one-up over Bryson McGraw, Read More…
NILES — Three Rivers’ softball team had no issues with Niles on Tuesday, sweeping the road doubleheader by finals of 12-1 in five innings in Game 1 and 10-0 in Game 2.In Game 1, the Wildcats got seven runs in the fourth inning to highlight their offensive onslaught of the Vikings. They also scored one Read More…
“I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.” -J.C. PenneyAutism is a developmental disability. Autistic children and adults have differences in social communication and interaction and exhibit restrictive or repetitive patterns of behavior. There is a wide range of presentations among autistic people. Autistic people are Read More…
Sturgis City Commission on April 22 gave a consensus to pursue a private placement bond to repair the roof at Doyle Community Center.In January, city staff asked for direction and the commission’s recommendation was to proceed with a “metal roof retrofit” option, estimated to cost $696,000.Official cost based on the low bid is just under Read More…
PHOTO BY ROBERT TOMLINSON,CAPTION BY JORDAN WILCOX | COMMERCIAL NEWS The Three Rivers Menards store at 1001 Warner Drive remains badly damaged nearly two months after an EF-2 tornado ravaged the area on March 6.The store held a partial reopening last month, with some departments open intermittently, but closed indefinitely on April 20 to begin Read More…
Linda Harrington has resigned from Sturgis City Commission.Harrington, a representative of the city’s 3rd Precinct, submitted her resignation earlier this month, and announced on April 22 it would be her final meeting as a member of the board. She did not submit a formal media statement.According to city manager Andrew Kuk, procedural policy states the city Read More…
By Robert TomlinsonNews Director ST. JOSEPH COUNTY — Over 6,000 people in St. Joseph County were without power because of a windstorm that rolled through Monday afternoon.According to Indiana-Michigan Power, heavy rains and strong winds reaching around 67 miles per hour contributed to the outages during the storm, which began in the late afternoon and Read More…