The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has announced the state will be moving to Phase 1B starting today. As a result, people 65 years of age and older, as well as frontline essential workers, are scheduled for the next round of vaccination. The latter group includes police officers, first responders, state and federal frontline workers, jail/prison staff, and …

A portion of a White Pigeon business was saved from a fire last week. Crews managed to protect the first floor of Jerry Kash Inc., 660 W. Chicago Road. Firefighters were called to the location at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after a passerby saw smoke coming from a barn behind Kash’s front office building. Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy smoke and …

How2Media, producers of the television show “World’s Greatest! …” announced it has selected Shipshewana Trading Place & Flea Market to be a part of the television series. Home of the Midwest’s largest flea market, Shipshewana’s market features 700 vendor spaces over a 40-acre area. It also includes weekly antique, and livestock and horse auctions. As part of the show, How2Media …

All three local high school football teams involved in the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s regional finals were victorious Saturday. Now, Centreville, Constantine and Schoolcraft are one win from playing for a state title. Centreville beat Sand Creek, 8-to-0. The Bulldogs will travel to Oakland County to take on Clarkston Everest Collegiate in a Division 8 contest. Meanwhile, in Division …

With all the worry and anxiety we experienced in 2020, I think it would be a good idea if we all tried to relax a little more, starting right now. With a vaccine out now, the worry about getting the virus should be cut back a little. I think we should all continue to practice social distancing and take other …

Betty Lou Barnell Brook, age 88, of Sturgis, passed away Saturday evening January 8, 2021 at the Heartland Health Care Center in Three Rivers. She was born August 3, 1932 in Port Huron, daughter of the late Herbert and Hazel (Talmadge) Moss. Betty resided in Sturgis since 1956 coming from Port Huron. On January 27, 1951 she married Chester L. …

Jon Rex Roggelien, age 80, of Three Rivers, passed away suddenly in Grand Rapids on Thursday, January 7, 2021. He was born in Three Rivers on November 18, 1940 the son of Morgan and Mary (Fornaresio) Roggelien. Jon was a lifelong resident of Three Rivers where he raised his family with his loving wife, Judy, whom he married on September …

Gerald (Jerry) Laverne Johnson Sr., age 84, of Three Rivers, passed away on Monday, January 4, 2021. He was born August 6, 1936 in Constantine, the son of William (Bob) Tolbert and Dora Louise (Norton) Johnson, Sr. Gerald married JoAnn Burt on October 23, 1954 at the Methodist Church in Constantine. They moved into a tenant house on the Ertah …

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is strongly encouraging all K-12 schools in Michigan to reopen for in-person instruction by March 1. She stopped short of requiring it Friday, but said face-to-face classes should at least be an option. Many schools, including in large districts such as Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, have been fully remote during the coronavirus pandemic. Teachers are among …

Omer L. Sheteron, Sr., age 88, of Constantine, passed away on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at Heartland Health Care Center in Three Rivers. Omer was born in Indiana on January 30, 1932, a son of Joseph and Minnie (Hunsberger) Sheteron.  He attended Constantine Schools. In 1953, he married Mary F. Salter; she preceded him in death in 1984. Omer worked …