By John RaffelCorrespondent LAWTON – Lawton’s football team improved to 4-2-1 overall with a 46-8 win over Coloma on Friday.It was 13-0 after the first quarter, 19-9 at halftime and 33-0 after the third quarter. Lawton had a 13-8 scoring advantage in the fourth.Brady Quick was 2-of-2 in passing for 39 yards. Lawton had 429 Read More…
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Mike’s Musings: My fear of “Bambi” makes me a nervous Driver
The social media memes showing vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz fumbling with loading his shotgun at a pheasant hunt reminded that this is the time of year when my mind sometimes wanders to “Bambi” and the confrontations I have had with deer over the years.Deer more than any other four-legged creature have been my nemesis. I Read More…
Life as Performance Art
I read an online religious news service article saying hunting was a form of conservation fulfilling God’s instructions to Adam and Eve to take dominion over the earth. That is an interesting perspective.For many years The Commercial Record printed a column of local historical events of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. One item Read More…
Benefit Concert held to raise funds to fight Huntington’s Disease
PAW PAW – The seventh annual Champions for HD Benefit Concert, held Saturday, Oct. 12, at The Lucky Wolf Theater, Paw Paw, saw more than $5,00 raised to help families fight Huntington’s Disease.Shelby Lentz began Champions for HD, after the disease struck her family. “After being the fourth member of my family to be diagnosed Read More…
Lawton Village Council approves pay Increase for police officers
By Paul GarrodStaff Writernews4garrod@gmail.com LAWTON – The Lawton Village Council approved a motion at the Oct. 8 Lawton Village Council meeting to increase fulltime pay for Lawton police officers.Village Of Lawton Chief of Police Greg Cordes said that increasing the pay amount to $32 an hour, will keep the village police department in the ballpark Read More…
50k gallons of wastewater spill into St. Joseph River; no-contact advisory issued [UPDATED]
By Robert TomlinsonNews Director Updated 7:42 p.m. Oct. 15, 2024 THREE RIVERS — For the second time in two years, a major wastewater spill into the St. Joseph River in Three Rivers has occurred. On Monday, the Three Rivers Department of Public Services announced that an estimated 50,000 gallons of untreated wastewater was discharged into Read More…
Sturgis swim/dive notches another win
STURGIS — The Lady Trojans swim and dive team came away with another win Tuesday, downing visiting Otsego, 104-75, winning 10 of 12 events.Emma Garbine placed first in the 200 freestyle in 2:10.08, and also in the 100 freestyle at 57.39 seconds. Hannah Garbine grabbed first place in the 100 butterfly, clocking in at 1:08.19. Read More…
Soccer Roundup Three Rivers shut out by Otsego, loses to Niles
THREE RIVERS — Three Rivers ended out the regular season with two losses this past week, a 4-0 shutout against Otsego Wednesday, Oct. 2 and a 5-2 loss to Niles Monday.No stats were reported for either game. The Wildcats move to 4-14 overall with the result, and hosted Hillsdale Thursday in the opening round of Read More…
Obituary: Sherry Nan Townsend
Sherry Nan Townsend, age 74 of Constantine, passed away Friday, October 4, 2024 at her home. She was born May 17, 1950 in Springfield, IL a daughter of Frank and Laura (Jones) Townsend. Sherry graduated from Marcellus High School in 1968. She was a member of the Corinthian Chapter 123 Order of the Eastern Star, the Marcellus Read More…
Obituary: M. Virginia Hirshey
M. Virginia Hirshey, 100, of Three Rivers, passed away Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at Birch Meadows Senior Care. She was born January 13, 1924 in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Ernest and Mary (Kedlac) Johnson. Virginia loved to do crafts and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. She worked as a laboratory technician at Read More…