Operators of southwestern Michigan’s Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant say that one of its units has returned to service after a 34-day shutdown for refueling. Unit 2 at the plant went back online about 2 a.m. Tuesday. Indiana Michigan Power runs the plant, which is along Lake Michigan in Berrien County’s Lake Township, near Bridgman. The Fort Wayne, Indiana-based company …

Investigators from the St. Joseph County Area Narcotics unit executed a search warrant Monday in the village of Colon. While conducting parole- and probation-compliance checks with agents of the Michigan Department of Corrections, SCAN officers obtained probable cause for a search warrant on a residence in the 400 block of Burr Oak Road. After the execution of the search warrant, …

Members of the Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Board of St. Joseph County voted Tuesday to separate the agency from the Federally Qualified Health Center. The health center, located under the same roof as CMHSAS in Centreville, operates on a $1.4 million budget, with $831,000 of its annual funding coming from the federal agency Health Resources Services Administration. …

Speed was a factor in a single-vehicle accident that resulted in injuries to four people Monday in Lockport Township. Members of the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department said the incident occurred shortly before 7 o’clock Monday night on Schweitzer Road, west of Holtom Road. Investigators said a Pontiac passenger car driven by an 18-year-old Sturgis woman was westbound on Schweitzer …

A longtime Sturgis Township farm operation plans to launch a 4,000-head, commercial hog-raising operation next fall in cooperation with a Constantine feed mill. Two 420-by-40-foot commercial barns are planned for a 500-acre section of the 2,500- acre Fairgrove Farms, located between Shimmel and Stubey roads, with a three quarter-mile access road off Stubey. Jennifer Bennett and Bill Pueschel, representing Fairgrove …

Helen Virginia (White) Richardson, age 87, of Constantine, passed away Monday, April 27th, 2015 at Thurston Woods Village, Sturgis. She was born on August 5th, 1927 in Elizabethton, TN, a daughter of George and Lucy (Furchess) White. Helen attended Elizabethton Public Schools. On April 15, 1945 in Elizabethton, she married Allen DeWitt Richardson. He preceded her in death on May 30, 1994. …

Thomas Lowell Kimble, age 64, of Three Rivers passed away on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Three Rivers on June 2, 1950 the son of Russell H. and Pauline Emily (Freese) Kimble, Sr. Tom was a lifetime resident of Three Rivers. He attended Three Rivers Schools and was employed …

George L. Cole, age 88, of Three Rivers passed away on Monday, March 2, 2015 at Three Rivers Hospital. He was born in Fabius Township to Delbert L and Ethel O (Stephenson) Cole on May 11, 1926. The family will receive friends from 10:00 a.m. until time of memorial services beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at …

Nan Marie (Custard) Schmitz, age 73, of Mendon, died Monday, April 27, 2015 at her home following a long illness. She was born in Three Rivers, MI on June 4, 1941 the daughter of the late Donald and June (Happel) Custard and was a lifetime resident of Mendon. She graduated Mendon High School with the class of 1960. Nan worked …

This evening (Tuesday), the community gathers at Belle Epoque to celebrate Al Heivilin. Al was chosen as this year’s Bruce C. Snook Citizen of the Year. If you do not have a ticket for the banquet, I’m afraid you’re out of luck, because tickets will not be available at the door. On behalf of the Three Rivers Lions Club and …