The recent decision by Allegan County Commissioners to change home delivered meal providers for The Olds caught my attention.My first thought came from a line from the film “The Godfather” when one of the mobsters ordered a hit on a rival. “It’s business; it’s nothing personal.”No, I’m not comparing the commissioners to gangsters, or anything Read More…
By Joseph Schultz The crowd that packed the boardroom for the Wayland Union School Board meeting Monday night experienced a rare bittersweet meeting. Bitter, from the passing of freshman Dallyce Parm, who took her own life on April 2.Parm’s death cast a palpable shadow of sadness over the meeting. Superintendent Tim Reeves recognized, in a Read More…
By Gari Voss The Calkins Bridge Dam that forms Lake Allegan is one of the 13 dams whose sale is being examined by state and federal regulators. Members of the Lake Allegan Association have been involved in multiple discussions, first with Consumers Energy as the decision was made to put the 13 dams on the Read More…
By John RaffelCorrespondent PAW PAW — Paw Paw’s track teams hosted the Lions Invitational on April 11 at Falan Field.Paw Paw girls had 170 points to win the eight-team fieldThe Paw Paw boys were second.For Paw Paw girls, Taylor Thorpe won the 100 meters (12.95), and the 100 meters (26.29), Hayden Lemieux was third in Read More…
Robert Tomlinson, our news director in Three Rivers, gave a terrific speech to the local Rotary Club about the importance of your local newspaper. I thought I would share a portion with you.“With our twelve weekly newspapers the mission is the same. To bring you the news of our area with accurate, truthful, and informative Read More…
Workers install a maze of wire support structures in anticipation of the construction of the new ice rink at South Haven’s downtown pavilion.The $800,000 project is intended to improve the winter-time ice skating rink with a more efficient in-pad cooling system. The work is being doing in phases with the first to be completed in Read More…
By James Windell The Michigan Supreme Court has just announced that it will hear oral arguments related to government immunity in a fatal drowning case.Crystal LeDuke filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of South Haven in May 2024 after her 18-year-old son Brandon Chambers drowned while swimming at a city beach in 2020. In Read More…
By James Windell The building that was once a Dairy Queen and more recently Kitchen Tribes restaurant is no more.A demotion team with two large excavators made short work of reducing the buildings at 555 and 559 Phoenix to a pile of rubble.But what will become of the property next door to the South Haven Read More…
By James Windell One of the duties of the Mayor of South Haven is to nominate people to serve on boards and commissions.With openings on the Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals, Mayor Annie Brown fulfilled her duties by nominating Nick Kish to serve on the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) and George Read More…
Michael Fossitt, shown above, was recently promoted to Van Buren County Veterans Services Director. Fossitt previously served as a Van Buren County Veterans Services Officer. Fossitt is a Paw Paw native and a decorated Army veteran who served with the Proud Americans and Black Lions during his deployment to Iraq. The county VS office is Read More…