A Salute to Veterans and First Responders Boat Parade and Flyover was held Aug. 20 in South Haven. Veterans started the day at 5 a.m. fishing on Lake Michigan, with a parade and The Hooligans Flyover at noon. Van Buren County Undersheriff Kevin Conklin, served as parade grand marshal.
The Paw Paw Police Department and Paw Paw Walmart recently sponsored Public Safety Professionals Night. Organizers said the great turn out saw participation from numerous local agencies and organizations, including Michigan State Police, Van Buren County Sherriff’s Office, Lawton Police Department, Decatur Police Department, Bangor Police Department, Mattawan Police DepartmentPaw Paw Fire Department, Van Buren Read More…
JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, also wrote the script for a play, and later a movie, he called The Old Lady Shows her Medals. It is set right after World War One in London. The plot is disarmingly simple: an older woman invites a young soldier home on leave to come to her house for Read More…
It’s so great to be a taxpayer in the United States. Our government continues to pile on the middle class with new tax after new tax.Now we are being told we must contribute to the $500 billion slush fund that will be used to pay $10,000 to $20,000 to Americans with college loans. Essentially productive Read More…
Of all the conditions or diseases, one might encounter, Alzheimer’s/dementia is in my opinion the worst.Many of us know a mother, father or a close relative that has suffered from this disease that saps almost all memory from a person. In my case it was my mother.The mother I remember was full of life. She Read More…
Play, we are told, is the work of children. Einstein wrote that when children play it is the beginning of all research. A classic example that philosophy might be the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. As a youngster his mother sat him down and introduced him to Froebel’s “Gifts and Occupations” It is a set of Read More…
LAWTON – The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) held an open house Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the Lawton Village Hall to discuss a planned three-year project to rebuild M-40 from 72nd Avenue to LaGrave Street through the Village of Lawton.Proposed work includes repaving and rebuilding M-40, shoulder widening, intersection and drainage improvements, village infrastructure improvements, Read More…
By Paul GarrodStaff Writer PAW PAW – With the August passage of a millage request to develop a Paw Paw Township Senior Activity Center, Paw Paw Township officials are currently working on a program designed for Paw Paw seniors that is slated to begin in January of 2023.The program will replace a similar program offered Read More…
By Paul GarrodStaff Writer PAW PAW – Van Buren County Commissioners on Tuesday, Aug. 9, formally approved a request to increase the current salary of interim Van Buren County Administrator Ryan Post to the starting salary listed on the job posting of $135,000, and to be back paid from his appointment date of May 24, Read More…
Ruth Ann Owsiany, 76, of Lawton, passed away Aug. 9, 2022, at her home, following a short battle with cancer. She was born to the late Milton and Louise (Dillenbeck) Davis in 1945, in Paw Paw.Ruth had two siblings, Melvin Davis and Janet Hall. She was united in marriage to John Owsiany and the couple Read More…