Mattawan state Representative Beth Griffin is inviting community leaders around Van Buren County to an economic development forum she has planned for this month. Griffin tells WSJM News she’ll host the meeting at Mattawan High School next
Lake Michigan College has hired some coaches for its women’s basketball and volleyball teams. It tells us Brooklyn Kohlheim is now the head women’s basketball coach, and Rob Elliott-Schnafitz is now head coach of the volleyball program.
Coming soon to the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven will be the Nina and the Pinta. Not the originals, but replicas of two of the ships led by Christopher Columbus across the ocean blue in 1492.
Protesters appeared on Friday outside the Michigan Department of Corrections in Lansing. Alejo Stark with the group Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity told Michigan News Network the state now imprisons 44,000 people and that prisoners are disproportionately people of
The Van Buren County Sheriff’s Department could use the public’s help in finding a missing Bangor Township girl. It tells us 14-year-old Ariel Wescott left her home on Wednesday evening, leaving her father a note that said she was
South Haven area state Representative Mary Whiteford tells us that she learned a great deal at a mental health task force meeting held this week. She’s one of 14 members of the House selected for the bipartisan
Saturday’s Powerball jackpot is up to $535 million. Michigan Lottery spokesperson Jeff Holyfield tells WSJM News it’s the fifth largest Powerball jackpot ever. He notes the winners of big time jackpots like Saturday’s are often simply flabbergasted.
The Cook nuclear power plant near Bridgman is about to move some large equipment. Spokesperson Bill Schalk tells WSJM News they’ll be transporting three 175-ton and three 75-ton retired turbine casings from the plant to a barge
Residents of a South Haven area mobile home park are trying to figure out what to do now that they’ve received notice their rent is drastically going up in a few weeks. The rent at Meadowbrook Village
Police have seized nearly 350 marijuana plants in a Berrien County raid. The Southwest Enforcement Team tells WSJM News it searched property at 1645 Mallard Drive in Bertrand Township on August 15 after police noticed signs of
