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, …

Muriel Briody Nykun, age 96, of Three Rivers, passed away Saturday, May 5th, 2018 at Bronson Methodist Hospital. She was born September 12th, 1921 in Paterson, NJ at St. Joseph Hospital to Dr. Henry Edward and Edna Muriel Mason Briody. Muriel married John T. Nykun on June 18th, 1953 at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Clifton, NJ. Together they …

The wife of a local fire chief died over the weekend in a motorcycle accident in Three Rivers. Investigators said Patricia Frye, age 66, the spouse of Mike Frye, chief of Fabius-Park Fire Department, died in the 7:30 p.m. incident Saturday.. Mike Frye, age 55, meanwhile, was critically injured when the motorcycles he and his wife were driving were struck …