100+ Women Who Care of Van Buren County in less than one hour raised $8,500 for musical instruments for the Lawrence Band Boosters. Tina Zapata, Lawrence Band Boosters president, who gave a presentation before the group, said many of the band-owned instruments are over 40 years old. “At this point, we hope to purchase a Read More…
Tapper Chevy and Tapper Ford, of Paw Paw, are currently collecting books for an upcoming book sale. Books of all types are being collected for the sale to be held in March.All proceeds from the sale will go to the Van Buren County Chapter of Dolly Parton’s Imagination L:ibrary, a program that mails free books Read More…
The Paw Paw Knights of Columbus will hold a basketball free throw contest, Sunday, Jan. 29, at 1 p.m. at the Paw Paw High School gymnasium. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m.The event is open to all boys and girls ages 9 to 14, as of Jan. 1, 2023. Birth certificates must be provided at time Read More…
PAW PAW – A pancake breakfast fundraiser for Wings of God Transition Home, Paw Paw, will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, from 8 to 10 a.m. at Paw Paw First Presbyterian Church, 120 Pine St., Paw Paw.A generous donor will match all donations up to $2,000.The breakfast includes pancakes, sausage, coffee, hot chocolate bar and Read More…
For the third year, the Van Buren Conservation District will hold its Backyard Symposium, an online speaker series hosted on Zoom.The symposium will feature speakers who will talk about topics that connect people with the wildlife and environment around them. This year, the tagline is “Branching Beyond Your Own Backyard”.Topics include outdoor recreation in Van Read More…
The first of several garden seed catalogues arrived the other day, and I dropped everything for an hour or so to go through it. Others will soon follow, and I will go through them as well. We will dog-ear pages and circle some of their wares that are appealing, and then make a final decision on Read More…
After re-reading my opinion last week that the Trump/Biden classified documents scandal was much to do about nothing, I realized I left out a couple of major points.First, I minimalized the importance of classified documents, by writing many of them are rendered useless by age. We are going crazy over documents relating to policies and Read More…
by Ben MurphySports Writer Mitchell buries five threes in Paw Paw girls’ win over Three Rivers The Paw Paw girls basketball team was able to pick up a nice road Wolverine Conference win on Friday. The Lady Red Wolves took down host Three Rivers, 50-33.Three Rivers led the game 11-9 after the first quarter, but Read More…
Joyceanne Judy Sass (Myers) 79, of Kalamazoo, went home to the Lord on January 7, 2023. She was born June 23, 1943 in Fremont, Michigan to Walter Myers and Violet Myers (Leppen).She attended Plainwell High School. She received her associates degree from Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Bacholors degree in Social work from Spring Arbor Read More…
Rita “Darlene” McAuliffe- Craig, 80, of Lawrence, died Jan. 10, 2023. She was born Jan. 7, 1943, in Chicago, the daughter of Mayme Polich.Darlene was a graduate of Lindblom Tech High School. She married Ed McAuliffe and the couple moved to Southwest Michigan in 1980. She retired as a billing clerk from Crystal Flash, Paw Read More…