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…
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…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor According to Otsego city manger Aaron Mitchell, the current on-call volunteer model being used by the Otsego Fire Department is designed to handle 500 calls per year.But the number of calls has been on the rise in recent years, peaking at 1,238—or nearly two-and-a-half times the expected amount—in 2022.“This is not Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor Plainwell Community Schools were closed on Monday, Jan. 16, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.But rather than taking the day off, a group of 16 high school students who are members of the PHS Multicultural Club opted to have a “day on.”The group made the short trip to Kalamazoo Read More…
By Jason WesseldykSports Editor PARK TOWNSHIP—A 52-year-old Otsego man is dead after his vehicle went into Lake Macatawa in Ottawa County in the early morning hours on Sunday, Jan. 22.Officials from the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office believe Jon Dowler’s vehicle entered the lake at approximately 2 a.m. The crash has been ruled accidental based on Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorWere Douglas’s Water Street Gallery on Water Street, it might have problems.Its 98 W. Center St. locale instead puts it downtown on an east-west commercial wide street with ample parking, quite different from narrow, hilly and winding north-south Water Street, which crosses Center four blocks east.Water Street’s residents do enjoy water views downhill Read More…
By Leslie Ballard Mykola Dziuba is not like the other exchange students at Allegan High School this year. The 17-year old comes from war-ravaged Ukraine, a democracy fighting for its life since the Russians invaded his country on Feb. 24, 2022.Mykola left his hometown of Kyiv in April to stay with some family friends in Read More…
A man left an interview with Michigan State Police in Allegan and hasn’t been seen since.Officials said he drove to a state park after the interview, parked his car in the area and left the keys inside.Todd Michael Lilge has been missing for four years. He was last seen by police on Jan. 18, 2019.He Read More…