A request for an additional one-quarter of a mill by St. Joseph County 911 Central Dispatch passed Tuesday. Unofficial totals reported by the St. Joseph County Clerk’s Office showed 1,364 votes in favor of the seven-year request and 1,323 opposed, with all 20 precincts reporting. The request will bump Central Dispatch’s millage rate to an even 1 mill. Agency director …

A request for 2 mills over a 10-year period was rejected Tuesday by White Pigeon Township voters. Unofficial totals show 257 votes against and 143 in favor. The township has 2,775 registered voters. Township supervisor Don Gloy said the request would have eased the burden on the township’s general fund. Also, it would have afforded the township the opportunity to …

White Pigeon Community Schools voters endorsed an operating-millage renewal request Tuesday. Unofficial numbers show the vote was passed with 339 in favor and 217 opposed. As a result, the district for the next six years will continue to assess the millage on non-homestead properties and generate about $2.8 million annually for its day-to-day operations. Superintendent Jon Keyer said Tuesday’s vote …

A Colon man was injured when the vehicle he was driving was involved in an accident earlier this week in Florence Township. The St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department said its deputies were called shortly before 4 a.m. Monday to the intersection of Centreville-Constantine Road and Roys Road in response to a one-vehicle crash. Deputies found that a 2001 Mercedes driven …

Well here I am at Animal Control.  I came in as a stray with another little dog and it has gone to its new home.  I am here alone, and I am missing my partner.  I’m really feeling lonely..  I am a female, red heeler mix weighing about 37 pounds.  The ladies think I am about a year old.  I …

Dorothy J. Wolf, age 88, of Lake Wales, Fla., and a longtime Sturgis resident, passed away Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, at Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, Fla. She was born Sept. 26, 1929, in Sturgis, the only child of the late Clarence and Margaret (Lytle) Bohyer. Dorothy resided in Sturgis from her birth until 2001, when she moved permanently …

Eric Anderson, James DeDecker and Kurt Thelen A breakfast meeting for field crop producers and agribusiness professionals on May 15, 2018 in St. Joseph County will focus on industrial hemp as a cash crop and how it may fit into future farming operations in Michigan. The meeting will also be available online to the public. Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) …

Back in the day when gasoline sold for twenty-six cents a gallon and self-serve gasoline stations hadn’t been invented yet, one could reach inside the pop cooler and buy a Pepsi or Coke for ten cents. If you took the bottle with you, it would cost an additional two cents. The bottles were glass and cans of pop and diet …

Michigan State Police say they’re recovered 17 travel trailers worth about $600,000 that were reported stolen from northern Indiana. Police say the sheriff’s office in LaGrange County, Indiana, contacted them for help locating and recovering the trailers. Detectives in Indiana had opened an investigation after several recreational vehicle manufacturers reported thefts of trailers from their facilities. Michigan State Police say …

Dorothy Arlene Bundy, age 74, of Middlebury, and a former longtime Sturgis resident, passed away Sunday morning, May 6, 2018, at her home. She was born Aug. 4, 1943, in Jackson, a daughter of the late Hubert James and Laura Marie (Stanley) Kelley. Dorothy resided most of her life in Sturgis until moving to Middlebury in 2015. On Oct. 15, …