Mattawan News

It appears that, starting this fall, half-day kindergarten in Kalamazoo-area public schools will be history.

Freeland High School seniors Myles Sakshaug, 18 and Kelsie Quimby, 18, prepare Saginaw Township resident Kathy Woods's taxes.

Karen Kearcher, director of teaching and learning at Mattawan Early Elementary, gets a tutorial about her iPad from Laura Ballard, a Mattawan first-grade teacher.

Later elementary school children in Mattawan get a snow day without the snow today, as their building is closed due to a heat and power outage, according to the school's website.

Portage Board of Trustees President Bo Snyder makes a comment while Trustees Joanne Willson, Randy VanAntwerp, Rusty Rathburn, Interim Superintendent Richard Perry and Trustee Ted Hartridge listen during their Jan.

Jamie Graybeal pleaded guilty to reckless driving on Friday. In exchange for that plea a charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident was dropped.

Here's the scenario: A teacher holds a class party that includes a student gift exchange.

Mattawan High School's journalism teacher was given a three-day unpaid suspension this month for allowing a holiday party where some students brought inappropriate gifts.

Clarence Tariq Hammond, 33, was shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 31700 block of Harlo Drive, near 13 Mile and John R roads.

MATTAWAN, Mich. - A teacher in southwestern Michigan was suspended for five days after students brought sex toys to school for a Christmas gift exchange.