Paw Paw 29,  Three Rivers 0

Severe storms packing high winds, heavy rains and hail moved through lower Michigan on Friday evening, downing trees and power lines across the area. Nearly 430-thousand Michigan homes and businesses were without power at one time or another. DTE officials reported that up to 350,000 of their customers were without power).  Some of the largest outages have been reported near …

Carl T. “Tom” Maiden, 77, of Three Rivers, died Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo after a period of declining health. Tom was born in Greenville, N.C. on Aug. 29, 1937 to the late Carl and Virginia (Clarke) Maiden. He served his country honorably in the United States Air Force, enlisting in 1954 and retiring as …

Ann Kay Wolkins, 18 days, of White Pigeon, died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. Visitation will be noon — 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8 at the Mottville Bible Church; services will be at 1 p.m. with interment in Mottville Township Cemetery. Donations may be directed to the family. Arrangements by the Farrand Funeral Home …

Betty Meringa, 84, went home to be with her Lord Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. She died peacefully at her home with family by her side. She was born in Parkville, the daughter of Roy and Marie Kennedy. While working at the local drug store she met and married the love of her life, Marinus “Joe” Meringa, on Jan. 15, 1949. …

Colleen F. Howard passed away at 1:05 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2014, in Goshen, Ind. She had been hospitalized since Wednesday. Her husband, Thomas Lee Howard, was with her at the end. Colleen was born June 10, 1931 in Elkhart, Ind., the third daughter of William Henry Joseph Farrell and Thelma Beatrice Robertson, of that city. She graduated from Elkhart …

Two people were injured in a motorcycle accident Wednesday in Constantine Township. Michigan State Police said Gary Purcell, 60, and a passenger, his wife, Patricia, 64, both of Coloma, were riding south on Youngs Prairie Road near Millers Mill Road around 1:30 p.m. Purcell was unable to negotiate a curve and lost control. The motorcycle and its riders traveled across …

A White Pigeon man was seriously injured Thursday evening when he collided with a car at the intersection of Kessington Road and Mason Street in Mason Township. According to the Cass County Sheriff’s Department, 24-year-old Kristy Barks of Cassopolis stopped at the intersection, but failed to see the cycle rider. He was identified as Michael Alwine, age 43, of White …

A former Fabius Township leader and active member of the local Marine Corps detachment passed away earlier this week. Del Martin, 77, who served as Fabius Township supervisor for eight years starting in 1996, passed away Monday after he took ill in late July. Martin ran in the August primary for a seat to the St. Joseph County Board of …

A Three Rivers business and its pay-it-forward concept is scheduled to be profiled on a local news broadcast Friday. Mike King, proprietor of the Weenie Kings push-cart stand, said the segment is slated to run twice between 5 and 7 a.m. on WWMT, Channel 3. King said the pay-it-forward concept started during HarmonyFest 2012, when a customer gave him extra …