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A food-service company in the process of acquiring Ascension Michigan’s southwest region is laying off almost 250 employees. According to WOOD-TV, contracts that Compass Group USA has with Ascension Borgess at four hospitals and a health/fitness center are poised to expire prematurely, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications it filed earlier this month. A total of 244 employees will …

Constantine village officials have welcomed the police department’s newest canine member: Riggs. The 18-month-old Brittany Spaniel is under the care of school resource officer Matt Stark. Stark spends most of his time monitoring Constantine’s high school and middle school, and Riggs has been welcomed warmly by all students. In fact, the high school has started a behavior- and achievement-based incentive …

On Saturday, May 10, I missed the bottom step coming out of my sister’s house and kissed the concrete driveway. The laundry basket didn’t break my fall, because I had thrown it out of the way. This quick action saved the laundry from getting covered with blood. I ended up at the emergency room of Three Rivers Beacon Health. The …

Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency has announced dates related to screenings for children who will enter kindergarten or Young 5s in the fall. Hearing and vision screenings, immunizations and an oral health assessments will be administered Aug. 6 at the Three Rivers location; Aug. 12 at the agency’s Sturgis site; and June 12 and 26, July 10 and 24, and …

Indiana authorities are warning of a scam related to an e-mail that states a balance is due to the agency. Indiana Department of Technology said messages from e-mail addresses belonging to the state of Indiana began arriving in inboxes earlier this week. Department of Technology officials said a contractor’s account was hacked, which was used to send the messages. Toll …

Several items were stolen during a breaking-and-entering incident last week in Lockport Township. According to Michigan State troopers, investigators were called to an area at M-60 and Haines Road. They learned that the incident took place between noon and 3 p.m. May 5. Items stolen include a drill and battery pack, a bicycle and a rifle.

A K-9 officer played a key role in apprehension of a suspect in a home-invasion incident last weekend in Cass County. Sheriff Clint Roach said deputies were notified shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday about a request for assistance from Cassopolis Police Department. Upon arrival, deputies were advised a suspect had fled from the residence. As a result, K-9 Sitka was …

Centreville Public Schools added two new staff members but accepted the retirement of another during the district’s board of education meeting Monday. First, the board hired Ashley Bailey to teach third grade. The opening became available with the retirement of kindergarten teacher Betsy Breitenbach followed by internal shuffling. Bailey, a Saginaw Valley grad, has 15 years of teaching experience, most …

Centreville Elementary School’s recently completed addition was formally dedicated Monday, when district officials staged a ceremonial ribbon cutting. The 5,155-square-foot addition, made possible by district voters in a May 2023 vote, features a new cafeteria and a separate, new music room. District officials, including superintendent Chad Brady, principal Dennis Kirby and board of education members, took part in the ceremonial …

A Dowagiac man died after being struck by a car over the weekend in Cass County’s LaGrange Township. Sheriff Clint Roach said deputies responded shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday to the 5700 block of Wilbur Hill Road in response to a car-versus-pedestrian crash. Deputies said 60-year-old Dowagiac resident Johnny Moore was driving north and his vehicle struck Dalton Prentice, 30. …