Cassopolis News

Weight challenge begins on Jan. 11 The New Troy Community Center will have a Weight Loss Challenge beginning Jan.

Posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago at 4:15 pm. Cassopolis Public Schools is joining 552 local and 57 intermediate school districts across the state to thank these community volunteers for their untiring dedication to public education.

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, headed by President Mariam Noland, helped fund construction of University Prep Science and Math High School in Detroit - one example of nonprofits making a difference.

CASSOPOLIS a ' A Cass County jury has convicted a Dowagiac man of stabbing his neighbors and leaving them for dead.

Posted 26 minutes ago at 5:00 pm. By AARON MUELLER Cassopolis Vigilant After two failed millage attempts to provide funding for a new K-8 building for Cassopolis Public Schools, a new plan is on the table to expand Sam Adams Elementary and convert it into a K-6 building without raising taxes.

Posted 28 minutes ago at 4:58 pm. Sgt. Jeremie Walker of the Marines Grand Rapids Reserve, Frank Squires Elementary Principal Tracy Hertsel and Gunnery Sgt.

Cass County Board of Commissioners Dec. 17 directed its civil counsel to prepare a tax-sharing agreement with the Uptown Corridor Improvement Authority, the Village of Edwardsburg and Ontwa Township for action at its first 2010 meeting at 7 p.m. Jan.

County Administrator Terry Proctor, departing in March after 20 years, Dec. 17 furnished each of the 15 commissioners with a free 26-page recruitment guidelines handbook for selecting a local government administrator compiled by ICMA, the International City/County Management Association.

Posted 23 minutes ago at 11:58 am. CASSOPOLIS - Cass County commissioners Thursday night: a Reappointed Commissioner Dixie File, Roseann Marchetti and Bernie Williamson to the Land Preservation Board for terms ending Jan.

CASSOP0LIS - A Cassopolis man with an "abysmal" record, as his attorney called it, is going to prison but not for as long as he might have expected.

For most elementary school students, recess is a holy, untouchable 30 minutes, but not for a group of third- through sixth-graders at Sam Adams Elementary School.

By A 38-year-old Mendon man will be behind prison bars for three years and up to 20 for operating and maintaining a methamphetamine laboratory in Porter Township.

Posted 1 hour, 47 minutes ago at 11:43 am. By NORMA LERNER Dowagiac Daily News CASSOPOLIS - A Dowagiac man who lost his temper during an argument with his girlfriend, shot at her to scare her and smashed her car with a sledgehammer will spend 120 days in the Cass County Jail and the next two years on probation.

Just in time for the holidays, residents of Niles, Buchanan, Cassopolis, Dowagiac, Edwardsburg, Berrien Springs and area, have cab service available locally.

A Dowagiac man needs to curb his temper and find a better way to deal with his anger, Cass Circuit Judge Michael Dodge said Friday.

The economy, though still fighting to get back to where it once was, remains far from a full recovery.

Posted 3 hours, 34 minutes ago at 1:00 pm. As of Wednesday, Dec. 9, the Van Buren/Cass District Health Department began vaccinating all people against H1N1.

Several Southwest Michigan organizations will collaborate on a project to educate people on the historic Kentucky Slave Raid of 1847, thanks to a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council.

Three-year-old Ryan Atkins and his grandmother, Kathy Atkins, brought food to the Cass County Animal Control shelter on Saturday.

Posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago at 2:20 pm. The Collins family moved into their Habitat for Humanity home Friday.