St Joseph County

Three Rivers Middle School has been selected as one of four partners in the Promoting Adolescent Reading Model Demonstration Project, a program offered through the Michigan Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative. Funded through the U.S. Department of Education, the grant focuses on improving reading outcomes for adolescent students, according to Three Rivers superintendent Jean Logan. The four-year project is …

Nicole Airgood, principal of Sturgis’ Eastwood Elementary School, has been named the 2015 Outstanding Practicing Principal by the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association. Presented to only one recipient per year, the Outstanding Practicing Principal Award recognizes principals who have exhibited extraordinary leadership, commitment to their students and faculty, service to their communities and contributions to the profession. The …

Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency’s board again looked to its environmental health director to take over as health officer, succeeding Steve Todd, who is retiring. Rebecca Burns will assume the role Jan 15. Todd was named environmental health director in 2001, and in 2006, became the health officer, the top job in the tri-county agency. Todd has worked at the …

Glen Oaks Community College is another step closer to getting dormitories. Members of the board of trustees voted last week to allow the company Student Suites to move forward with a fully developed plan for dormitories at the college. The vote followed a presentation by Dick Davis and Kimberly Christianson of Missouri-based Student Suites. Davis and Christianson shared details about …

Two men from the community of Jones were arrested after more than a pound of marijuana was found inside their vehicle. According to a media release from the Edwardsburg Police Department, the 18-year-old driver of the vehicle attempted to flee the scene of a traffic stop at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the 69000 block of Section Street. The driver adhered …

A change in leadership at St. Joseph County Animal Control was addressed by county commissioner Rick Shaffer last week. Longtime animal control director Tom Miller retired in October and commissioners have yet to decide whether to replace Miller or follow through on a proposal to fold the agency into the sheriff’s department. It is currently being run by the sheriff’s …

Two people were treated for injuries after their residence was struck by a car earlier this week, according to Sturgis Police. Officers were called around 10 a.m. Tuesday to the 200 block of North Prospect Street following a report that a vehicle had collided with a house. Two men, ages 18 and 22, were inside the residence and found to …

State police are investigating several recent larcenies from motor vehicles in Florence and Sherman townships. Agency officials said they responded Tuesday afternoon to an area between the 21000 and 23000 blocks of Featherstone Road, where residents reported items taken from their vehicles. All victims reported that their vehicles were left unlocked overnight and that small amounts of loose change, and …

Concerns ranging from an ongoing recall process to police presence at school were expressed by audience members who addressed the Three Rivers board of education at its meeting earlier this week. During the public-comment portion of Monday’s session, TR Cares leader Sherrie Nowicki raised the issue of an appeal filed Nov. 30 by a trio of board members targeted for …

The Three Rivers Fire Department has been named the winner of the 2015 Leland Gayheart Fire Safety and Prevention Award for the department’s Fire Prevention for Schools program. The University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center supports the work of Michigan firefighters by presenting a fire-safety prevention award in honor of Leland Gayheart. Gayheart was a 23-year-old Ann Arbor-area firefighter who …