Two vacant positions with the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department will be filled, as the county’s board of commissioners earlier this month approved staffing the posts. One road-patrol position and a full-time job in corrections will be filled once viable candidates are found. Resignations in both cases created the openings. In other personnel matters last week, the commission hired Catherine …

Organizers behind Saturday’s collection of household hazardous waste, televisions and computers, tires and paper said the amount collected exceeded the fall 2013 event. Pat Kulikowski, secretary of the St. Joseph County Solid Waste Committee, said preliminary figures show two semi trailers were filled with televisions and computers, 12,600 pounds of hazardous waste was collected, 635 tires were turned in and …

Troopers from the Michigan State Police Coldwater Post stopped a passenger vehicle on Hodunk Road near Barnhart Road in Branch County. The 30-year-old driver and a 48-year-old passenger, both of Quincy, were found to be in possession of several ounces of marijuana and components used to manufacture methamphetamine. The suspects were arrested on several felony charges. A further investigation led …

Millie Faye Snyder, 77, of White Pigeon, passed away Friday, October 17th, at Riverview Manor Nursing Home, Three Rivers. Faye was born in Jasper, AL on October 3, 1937, a daughter of Robert Ed and Mattie Elizabeth (Burgess) Sherer. She graduated from Bristol High School. On June 28, 1958 she married Kenneth Snyder in Bristol, IN at the Methodist Church. He …

David Scott “Spit” Spitaleri, age 52, of Three Rivers passed away suddenly on October 16, 2014 at the Bronson Methodist Hospital following a brief illness, throughout which Scott kept good spirits and a hopeful attitude. He was born on May 22, 1962 in Detroit, MI., the son of George and Brenda (Ary) Spitaleri. Scott attended schools in the Ypsilanti area …

Robin E. (Norton) Atkinson, 55, of Three Rivers, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 at the Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. Visitation will be on Monday, Oct. 20, 10-11 a.m. at the Eickhoff, Farrand, Halverson Chapel in Three Rivers where services will be at 11 a.m. Interment of cremains will follow at Poe Cemetery. Donations may be directed to the family.

Two Three Rivers police officers may face criminal charges after an alleged domestic dispute that occurred last month in Lockport Township. The alleged incident is being investigated by the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department. St. Joseph County Prosecutor John McDonough said his office turned reports over to the Michigan Attorney General’s office, which will appoint a prosecutor to determine if …

A 19-year-old Sturgis-area man was airlifted to Bronson Methodist Hospital Wednesday following a one-car crash. Police said Adam Bontrager was driving west on Lafayette street around 2 p.m. when the car he was driving left the road and struck a tree. Witnesses told police that Brontrager was driving at a high rate of speed. The vehicle left the road near …

Barbara Fowler Maddox, age 89, of Three Rivers passed away on Monday, October 13, 2014. Barbara was born on June 25, 1925 and raised in Chicago Illinois. She attended DePauw University where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Barbara came to live in Three Rivers Michigan in 1965. She began teaching third grade, first at Ruth …

Penny Kay Bauman, age 66, of Colon, passed away, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, at her home surrounded by her loving family. Penny was born Dec. 30, 1947, in Flint, a daughter of the late Myron G. and Dorothy Jean (Smith) Parks. She had lived most all of her life in the Colon area. On Jan. 16, 1965, she married Robert …