Athens News

Looking for a chance to catch up on some scrapbooking? Need to finish your holiday craft projects? Here's the perfect opportunity! The Arts & Culture Committee of the Athens Area Community Foundation will hold its second annual Scrapbook Crop on Saturday, November 21.

The Michigan Association of Chamber Professionals recognized Monica Anderson, president of the Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce, with the 2009 Michigan Chamber Professional designation at its Leadership Conference & Annual Meeting Oct.

The Spencer Family Funeral Home in Athens will host its eighth annual Veteran's Day Service and Candlelight Ceremony at 7 p.m. Nov.

A controversial natural gas pipeline compressor station is up and running in Athens Township and may cause less of a stir than the public ruckus that came before construction.

Top Chin-Burmese singers will perform in a concert at 7 p.m. today to help raise money for the Chin people in Burma, officially called Myanmar, who are currently experiencing a food crisis.

The Kellogg Community College volleyball squad improved to 6-7 in the MCCAA and to 9-19 overall on Thursday when it defeated host Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor 25-19, 24-26, 25-27, 25-18, 15-8. For the Bruins, Katie Taft had 23 kills and 10 digs; Alyssa Tone had 13 kills; Kelsey Bivens had 50 assists; Alyssa Quist had five aces; Kelsea ...

Beebe and Debbie at the Lakeview Vet Clinic for their genuine and compassionate care of Dottie Kay Macaulay, my "god dog." They are truly amazing.

Laura Gilbertson and her very talented choirs. The Marshall Singers, Belle Canto and Redhawk Chorale gave an awesome pops concert on Sunday.

A troublesome ditch in Athens Township could come under Calhoun County's jurisdiction for maintenance and flood prevention, an effort residents will be asked to pay for.

A Bellevue Township man was charged for the work of 13 firefighters last July, though only two firefighters showed up to check on a brush fire he'd already doused.

The last municipality to appoint a member to the FireKeepers Casino Local Revenue Sharing Board is taking its time.

I'm getting tired of this two steps forward, one step back nonsense. Last week, I penned another wasteful screed about the optimism I felt watching music growing like a slow-moving good infection in this city.

Athens knocked off two community development birds with one stone Tuesday when it launched a new entrepreneurship program at Athens Middle School.

The Athens Village Council on Tuesday took two steps forward on its community development efforts, including approving a contract for police services in the village.

The schools of Union City responded warmly to the Soup'R Bowl food drive, bringing 6,851 food items into the Food Pantry.

This summer, Rich Franklin started an exercise routine -- five days a week, he's either lifting weights or walking.

S.A.F.E. Place is now accepting applications and interviewing for the next 42-hour domestic violence crisis intervention training program in November.

Athens Area Schools got some good news in its recent fiscal 2008-09 audit. After all bills were in and paid and through a closer examination of the struggling district's finances, Athens came in about $100,000 better than expected, Principal-Superintendent Rich Franklin said Tuesday.

As the lone Republican on the Calhoun County Board of Commissioners, Julie Camp has pitched her pup tent, but she takes the Big Tent philosophy wherever she goes.

'A stitch in time saves nine.' One of Beethoven's best symphonies was his ninth.