SOUTH HAVEN – Former business owner, educator and school board member Annie Brown announced Monday. Jan. 3, that she is running for state representative in West Michigan’s new 38th House District.“I’m running for state representative because small businesses, small towns, and farmers need a fighter in Lansing who will make sure their voices are heard. Read More…
The Greater Paw Paw Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new Paw Paw business, CAVESTOCK, located at 309 E. Michigan Ave.,in the Paw Paw Plaza. CAVESTOCK carries a full range of products to prepare for disasters, power outages, wilderness survival, and more. CAVESTOCK.com has been in business for several Read More…
PAW PAW – St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Paw Paw, will offer its free community dinner as a drive-thru event, Thursday, Jan. 20, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the church, 412 Cedar Street.The meal will consist of spaghetti pie, fruit cup and dessert. Those attending will be directed how to enter and leave the parking Read More…
MATTAWAN – A 14-year-old Mattawan female, reported missing on Sunday, Jan. 9, has been located and is safely back home with her family, according to a press release from the Michigan State Police Paw Paw Post.Ajanae Raine Cretsinger was reported missing Sunday night, MSP reported. A male subject she was with was arrested and is Read More…
LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Aric Nesbitt was present for every one of the Michigan Senate’s 494 roll call votes in 2021, according the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s watchdog site MichiganVotes.org.“I was elected to do a job; it is my duty to show up,” said Nesbitt, R-Lawton. “I am grateful every day that I Read More…
Here’s a story that hopefully will provide a chuckle or two.So my birthday is right around the corner, and my son, bless him, had my gift sent by UPS to our home. Unfortunately, we were at the office and couldn’t accept the package in person. When we returned home, he noticed the package was nowhere Read More…
Longtime friends shared with Pat and me in a Christ-mas letter they had returned to Orchestra Hall for the first performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchetra in nearly two years.At the end CSO director Ri-cardo Muti spoke briefly with the audience about how the word “culture” is often misused today.I believe he was right. If Read More…
Dear Editor: The next couple of months roads will be full of ice and snow, making driving conditions dangerous. While there is little we can do to stop weather related accidents, there is a source of accidents we can do something about: collisions with wildlife.Every year millions of Americans hit wildlife on our roadways. Michigan Read More…
To the Editor: Tyranny of the minority …The conservative right-wing has never bought into the idea of a multicultural society …. that the birthright of all Americans is equal representation and protection under the law. Call them nationalists (mostly white), anti-immigration advocates, maybe even super-patriots. They didn’t like Abe Lincoln much and have built hundreds Read More…
Victor Robert Crane, 84, of Paw Paw, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Saturday Jan. 1, 2022, at his home, with his family at his side. He was born March 19, 1937, in Logansport, Indiana, the son of the late Thomas G. Crane and Thelma (Cordell) Webster.At the age of five, his family Read More…