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Burr Oak Community Schools officials announced the district is forced to delay the start of its 2024-25 academic year until after Labor Day. Classes were to start Monday next week but due to construction-related delays, the first day has been pushed to Sept. 3, district officials said. Board members are expected to discuss how the delayed start will affect the …

Michigan Department of Transportation’s Chris Jacobs has issued an update regarding the second phase of U.S. 131 construction. The project, which started April 15, is concentrated to an area that includes the village of Schoolcraft and an area north to Shaver Road. According to Jacobs, recently completed work includes installation of storm sewers from the railroad crossing to Cass Street; …

A Cassopolis woman was injured after she was involved in a two-vehicle crash over the weekend in Cass County’s Mason Township. Sheriff Richard Behnke said deputies responded shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday to the intersection of Cassopolis Road and Mason Street in response to a personal-injury crash. Investigators determined a car driven by Detroit-area resident Jaime Anway, 47, was traveling …

Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a larceny from a motor vehicle in White Pigeon Township. Troopers said the incident took place overnight July 24 into July 25 in the 17000 block of Indian Prairie Road. Authorities said jumper cables and money were taken from the vehicle.

Michigan Department of Transportation has started work on one of its three planned projects this summer. A section of M-86, from South Main Street in Three Rivers to West Main Street in Centreville, started Monday. MDOT’s Nick Schirripa said the work involves a three-step process beginning with a chip-seal step, followed by a procedure Schirripa called a fog seal and …

An Indiana man was injured after the motorcycle he was driving struck a deer in Cass County’s Mason Township. Sheriff Richard Behnke said deputies were called shortly before 9 p.m. July 30 to the area of Calvin Center Road and Mason Street. Investigators said 40-year-old South Bend resident Joshua Stillwagon was driving south on Calvin Center Road when a deer …

Three Rivers Department of Public Works Director Amy Roth issued a media release Thursday, detailing a continued lead-action-level exceedance for the city’s drinking water system. Roth said the city announced its first lead-action-level exceedance a year ago. The lead-action-level exceedance means that locations within the city’s drinking-water system have lead test results over 15 parts per billion, which is the …

Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a theft from a motor vehicle in Mottville Township. The incident occurred between July 17 and July 20 in the 10000 block of North River Road. Items taken include two Milwaukee brand cutters, three Milwaukee battery chargers and rechargeable batteries, two DeWalt sawzalls, a DeWalt impact drill, a three-ton chain hoist and approximately 40 …

The National Weather Service classified Tuesday’s storm as a category EF2 tornado. Officials from the agency’s Northern Indiana office said top wind speeds were 115 miles per hour and followed a ground path of nearly 8 1/2 miles. The tornado featured a width of 700 yards. Its path went in a southeast direction from the county line, just north of …

An 18-year-old Sturgis man who died last weekend in a crash has been identified. Alexander Cardenas died Saturday morning following a crash at the intersection of South Nottawa Street and Bogen Road, according to the Sturgis Department of Public Safety. Cardenas was driving a car heading east on Bogen Road. It pulled into the path of a pickup heading south …