A 57-year-old Three Rivers man was killed in a two-vehicle accident Friday in Charleston Township in southeastern Kalamazoo County. The Kalamazoo County sheriff’s department has identified the man as Robert Wayne Neidlinger, who was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The incident happened around 7 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Mercury Drive and Watkins Road. Authorities said …

Joyce (Rockwell) Sucaet, long-time resident of Warren, Michigan, passed away on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at the age of 92.  Joyce was born in Three Rivers and raised on a farm. At age 16, she contracted polio and dealt with the effects for the rest of her life.  She achieved her goal by attaining her degree in education at Michigan …

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale authored “The Power of Positive Thinking” quite some time ago. I’ve never read the book and I’m pretty sure that if I had read it, my life and attitude would have been much more positive. There are those individuals that live almost every day in a negative attitude. The glass is always half empty instead of …

Michigan Department of Transportation will be investing $1.5 million to repave nearly one mile of U.S. 12 in a Cass County community. Construction includes road resurfacing, concrete curb and gutter, sidewalk ramp reconstruction, drainage and sign upgrades, pavement markings, and railroad-crossing upgrades from the west village limit of Edwardsburg to M-62. There will be single-lane closures on U.S. 12 with …

A Constantine man was injured in a single-vehicle accident earlier this month in Cass County’s Porter Township. Sheriff Richard Behnke said 24-year-old Joshua Miller was driving north on M-40 around 6:20 p.m. June 14, when he lost control of his vehicle. The vehicle then drove off the roadway and struck a ditch. Witnesses said the vehicle rolled six times before …

State Rep. Aaron Miller’s plan to streamline the approval process for farmers who use irrigation to grow crops was signed into law Friday by Gov. Rick Snyder. Miller said the new law fixes a broken process previously used by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to review water well applications. He said government inefficiency was unnecessarily costing local crop farmers …

St. Joseph County Domestic And Sexual Abuse Services recently received a $4,100 donation thanks to the “100+ Women Who Care” event earlier this month at Sturges-Young Auditorium. Seven charities were entered into a drawing and representatives from the three drawn randomly were given five minutes to present their organization. The charities were Children’s Trauma Assessment Group of St. Joseph County, …

A man convicted of murder in the robbery and death of a Western Michigan University student has been sentenced to life in prison. Jordan Waire’s no-parole sentence was automatic Monday, weeks after his conviction in Kalamazoo County. A co-defendant, Joeviair Kennedy, was acquitted of murder. He was on Western Michigan’s basketball team when he was arrested. Nineteen-year-old Jacob Jones was …

Phyllis E. (Squire) Littman, age 91, of Sturgis, passed away peacefully at her home, on Saturday, June 23, 2018. She is now absent from her body but present with the Lord. A devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, she was born July 21, 1926, the daughter of Ben and Hazel (Bassett) Squire. She graduated from Sturgis High School in …

Joan F. Rider, age 95, of Sturgis, passed away Wednesday evening, June 20, 2018, at her home. She was born June 18, 1923, in Constantine, one of nine children, to Roy and Florence (Raifsnider) Preston. Joan resided most of her life in Sturgis. On Dec. 31, 1941, she married Bobby F. Rider in Adrian, and was happily married until his …