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Paw Paw baseball season ends in district semis
by Ben MurphySports Writer Paw Paw baseball sees season ended in district semis The Paw Paw baseball team saw their season come to an end on Saturday. The Red Wolves were playing Three Rivers in a Division 2 district semi-final…
Obituary: Merton Alvin Norman
Merton Alvin Norman, creator and operator of Norman Camera for 44 years, went to be with his Heavenly Father, May 21, 2023. Born in Plainwell, MI, Aug. 4, 1937, to Leonard and Dora Norman, Mert was the third of five…
Obituary: Agnus Grace Conklin
Agnus Grace Conklin, one year old of Paw Paw, died following a car accident on June 2, 2023. She was born May 20, 2022, the daughter of Kenneth and Sasha (Ramsey) Conklin. Born with bright blue eyes and a radiating…
Obituary: Ann Ellen Fenton
Ann Ellen Fenton, 82, of Paw Paw, passed away Thursday, May 25, 2023, at Rose Arbor Residence, Kalamazoo. She was born March 28, 1941, in Kalamazoo, the daughter of Loyal Fenton and Estina (Sherrod) Fenton.Ann had a lifelong love for…
Special Olympics team gets grand sendoff from Paw Paw officials
The Paw Paw Knights of Columbus hosted the Area 17 Special Olympic team last Wednesday, May 31, at their hall. The team was treated to a lunch and afterward, given an escort by members of the Van Buren County Sheriff’s…
Life as Performance Art
Decades ago, when Montreal hosted a world’s fair, a friend of my parents had only three days to see everything. For a normal person, that would not be sufficient time, but he was not someone considered normal. People said he was dumber…
Mike’s Musings: ChatGPT writes why local newspapers are important
I wrote an opinion a couple weeks ago about AI, and how it is fast invading many aspects of our society. One offshoot of AI is ChatGPT, a very popular application that students and professionals use to create reports, essays…
Life as Performance Art
Someone asked if it bothered me that sometimes people don’t like what I have written for the newspaper. My answer is always the same: Not at all. I know I have never sat down at the keyboard with the intention of irritating…
Mike’s Musings: I’m a believer, pickleball offers fun for all ages
I couldn’t help but read with a smile when Allegan columnist E.C. Stoppel posed a question to random people (in this week’s Allegan County News) as to whether they liked pickleball or not. Some younger people answered that it was…
Paw Paw baseball thumps Vicksburg
by Ben MurphySports Writer Paw Paw baseball thumps Vicksburg The Paw Paw baseball team hosted Vicksburg on Thursday, May 18, finishing off a game that was started earlier in the season, but delayed due to darkness. The Red Wolves were…
Paw Paw Fire Department showcases new fire station
The Paw Paw Volunteer Fire Department held an open house, Saturday, May 20, to showcase the department’s new fire station at 832 S. Gremps St. As several hundred people turned out for the event, State Representative Pauline Wendzel presented Paw…
Many area towns to hold Memorial Day parades
By Paul GarrodStaff Writer PAW PAW – Paw Paw’s 103rd annual Memorial Day services will be held Monday, May 29, with the annual parade starting at 10 a.m. from the 120 Taphouse and Bistro parking lot, via Michigan Avenue to…
Life as Performance Art
On Memorial Day, there is no place I would rather be than in a small Midwest town. More specifically, it means a small town in southwestern Michigan. Like the rest of the country on that day, we will pause for a…
Mike’s Musings: AI could make our lives better or ruin us
Is anyone concerned about artificial intelligence as I am?You know the technology is growing at such a rapid rate that humans might be subservient to robots soon. Or so say a few prognosticators.Being somewhat a libertarian, I do not favor…
Paw Paw softball plays to split with Coloma
The Paw Paw softball team welcomed in ranked Coloma on Thursday. The Lady Red Wolves hung with them, taking game one 6-5 in extra innings and falling 12-1 in the second game.In the opener, Coloma led 5-2 in the seventh…
Life as Performance Art
“Stop using the word ‘re-gret,’” and older woman ad-vised me. “Regret is auseless emotion. You would be bet-ter off dropping it from your vocabulary.”I have come to realize she was right, and charitable too. To regret something means it was…
Life lessons for new graduates
One of the great accomplishments one can achieve in their teen years is graduating from high school. Wilcox Newspapers has underscored this achievement by honoring grads in several of our local newspapers. It is a daunting task, but we believe…
Obituary: Arthur Lynn Richardson
On May 9, 2023, Arthur Lynn Richardson left this world to enter paradise with his Lord and Savior Jesus. Art had a prolonged stay in hospice as he battled several debilitating illnesses, surviving well beyond the expectations of the hospice…
Obituary: Esther Narlene Goodrich
Esther Narlene Goodrich, 96, of Lawrence, passed away Saturday, May 6, 2023, peacefully at her home in Lawrence. She was born June 15, 1926, in Quincy, Illinois, the daughter of Charles Edward Lundahl and Ida June (Clifford) Lundahl.Esther lived a…
Obituary: JoAnn (Kobe) Smith
JoAnn (Kobe) Smith, 91, of Paw Paw, passed away May 2, 2023. She was born to the late Frank and Jennie Kobe.She worked at her parents’ root beer stand, The Big Barrell Drive Inn, Paw Paw. She later retired from…
