Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport reports continued growth in passenger traffic during the month of May. A year-by-year comparison shows growth of 788 percent compared to the COVID-decimated travel month of May 2020. Craig Williams, airport director, said the airport handled 14,088 passengers last month, up from 12,370 the month before. However, Williams said, the May 2021 count is down more …

Roman Brooks Hubbard-Penn was born peacefully sleeping on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 and had already departed us spiritually in his mother’s womb. Roman was born to Johnathan Penn and Brooklyn Hubbard of Sturgis. Roman spent his short life experiencing nothing but love and admiration. He enjoyed kicking his mom really hard after eating sour candy and doing somersaults when it …

Coreen Elenor Osborn (Smith), age 66, of Three Rivers, passed away suddenly Thursday, December 31, 2020 at Three Rivers Health. She was born August 11, 1954 in Dowagiac, the daughter of Edward and Elenora (Shetron) Smith. Coreen was a lifelong resident of Three Rivers where she raised her children and worked as a Property Manager for Medallion Property Management. Coreen …

Who is responsible for setting the trends in styling? I have a feeling that most of the trend setters are celebrities. For example, Guy Fieti, of “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” fame is responsible for making it cool to wear your sunglasses backwards on the back of your head. I’m pretty sure that Rock groups of the early sixties are responsible …

Sheriff Richard J Behnke reports that on Sunday at approximately 1:37 p.m., deputies responded to a single crop duster aircraft crash around the 27000 block of Indian Lane near Cassopolis. The pilot, 68-year-old Ralph Edward Lutes of Shipshewana, was transported to Elkhart General Hospital for treatment of unknown injuries sustained in the crash. The plane was crop dusting a nearby …

Larry Lee Beach, age 85, of Hartsville, Michigan and a longtime former Sturgis resident, passed away early Thursday morning, June 17, 2021 at his home. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Wednesday at the Rosenberg Chapel of Hackman Family Funeral Homes of Sturgis where funeral services celebrating the life of Larry Lee Beach will begin at …

Jack R. Wallen, age 76, of Colon, passed away at his home on Thursday, June 17, 2021. Jack was born in Water Gap, Kentucky on August 20, 1944, a son of the late William and JoEllen (Calhoun) Wallen. Jack graduated from Warsaw High School with the class of 1963. On March 12, 1977 Jack married Corliss Uric at the Sturgis …

Kenneth Lee Mullins, age 79, of Sturgis, passed away Thursday, June 17, 2021 at his home. He was born January 4, 1942 in Wolf Pen, West Virginia son of the late Walter and Gladys Mullins. Ken resided in Sturgis since 1962. His early life was spent in West Virginia. On October 22, 1962 he married Alice Clouse in Fort Mead, …

Jack Wayne Whitney, age 79, of Three Rivers, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, June 10, 2021. He was born in Bald Knob, Arkansas, on Jan. 9, 1942, the son of Roy H. and Leatha V. (Cullom) Whitney. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brother and sister-in-law Roy H. Jr. & Martha Whitney; his brothers, Rex, …

Michigan will lift all indoor capacity restrictions and mask requirements next week, 10 days sooner than planned amid vaccinations and plummeting COVID-19 infections, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday. The state’s main coronavirus order will expire at the end of Monday instead of July 1, bringing an end to mandatory 50% occupancy limits inside restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues and at …