Dowagiac News

Jacob Worthington , Matt Lyle and Daniel Crandall all advanced out of the individual district Saturday held at Lake Odessa Lakewood High School.

"Life will slowly get better if we choose to not make it worse. But expect a rough 15 to 30 years." - Dr.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn of Midland Tuesday night won the support of the delegates a Cass County TEA Party group will send to a statewide convention of 55 such groups later this month where they will endorse and unite behind one candidate in the GOP Senate primary.

Southwestern Michigan College Board of Trustees accepted contributions on behalf of the college at its January meeting held on the Dowagiac campus.

The Twin Cities Organ Concert Series presents Gloriana: Five Centuries of English Choral and Organ Music at 4 p.m. Sunday at Church of the Mediator, 14280 Red Arrow Highway, Harbert.

The Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee , in cooperation with MSU Extension, will be holding two informational meetings in west Michigan to discuss the results of on-farm research projects conducted in 2011.

Borgess Lee-Memorial Hospital injected a new term into Dowagiac medical dialogue -A locum tenens.

Host Plainwell outscored Dowagiac 14-3 in the first quarter and never looked back in defeating the Chieftains 49-31 Tuesday night in Wolverine Conference girls basketball.

An Arbor Day Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 6 p.m. at Dowagiac City Hall in the upstairs meeting room.

Allegan, ranked No. 4 in Division 2, won six individual championships and had 10 wrestlers in the finals as it amassed 236 points to easily outdistance runner-up Otsego, which had four individual champions and 207.5 points.

Three people were injured early Saturday morning when a vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign and struck another vehicle, according to a news release from the Cass County Sheriff's Office.

Caitlyn Wade and Justin Urban of Niles are the parents of a son, born Jan. 24, 2012.

Starting on Thursday afternoon and continuing into today, Southwest Michigan motorists are feeling the pain of a gas-price increase that reached almost 30 cents per gallon.

Most people know Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services by its Three Rivers shelter.

Meanwhile, Dowagiac and Three Rivers will begin their preparation for the Wolverine Conference Tournament on Saturday coming off a pair of losses.

This old Cardinal Charlie, who has seen 82 years of life in Dowagiac, as I look back, has known or heard of a lot of folks from here who have more or less made a name for themselves.

I read in the paper that South Bend's downtown parking enforcement now has a new way of giving one a parking ticket for parking over the time limit.

When weather cooperates, the cold truth is crystal-clear works of art take shape thanks to culinary chefs wielding power tools to transform 10 tons of ice blocks into glasslike statuary along downtown sidewalks of the Grand Old City.

Sobriety Court Jan. 13 graduated its first person to complete the 15-month, four-phase program, Roger Essex of Dowagiac, who turned his community service assignment into temporary employment with the city.

The Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce will host the annual Ice Time Festival Saturday, Feb.