Marcellus News

The sign outside of Frankie's restaurant in Three Rivers said, "Closed for renovations open Saturday." The renovations are part of the Food Network show "Restaurant: Impossible," where celebrity chef Robert Irvine and his team travel to struggling restaurants across the country and give them facelifts in two days and on a $10,000 budget.

The Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy celebrates the grand opening of its 124-acre Spirit Springs Sanctuary near Marcellus from 10 a.m. to noon June 9. The property is SWMLC's first publicly accessible natural area preserve in Cass County and was acquired in 2010 from former owners Vernon and Alice Miller.

By a vote of 166-137, voters in Marcellus Community Schools approved an override of the Headlee Amendment for four years on its 18-mill nonhomestead tax.

A 19-year-old Dowagiac man wept openly in Cass County Circuit Court several times during his sentencing hearing Friday.

Voters in six area school districts -- Kalamazoo, Allegan, Martin, Gobles, Paw Paw and Marcellus -- have tax requests on the May 8 ballot related to the 18-mill nonhomestead tax.