Parchment News

The Post Office is reporting that most Post Office retail counters in Kalamazoo will close earlier than usual on Friday, July 3rd, to enable retail employees to spend more time with their families.

In Kalamazoo County, deputies say they found a meth lab while they investigated a break-in. It all started Saturday afternoon at a home on Tanda Avenue near Parchment when a man heard footsteps in his house.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 Kalamazoo JOBLESS RATE HITS 10% Kalamazoo area unemployment rate rises The unemployment rate in six Southwest Michigan counties hit double digits in May, according to figures released Thursday by the state.

Parchment City Hall is going to be able to toot its own horn, and horns that toot at the Stage at Kindleberger Park will be louder as a result of two actions by the Parchment City Commission on Monday.

Nearly a week after she got her new heart, Lindsay Raye Dean celebrated her first birthday on Thursday surrounded by her parents, two young brothers and grandparents at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

When many gas station owners in Southwest Michigan decided to drop their prices on Tuesday and Wednesday, they really decided to drop their prices.

Little Lindsay Raye Dean definitely looks pretty in pink, her mother says. The "pink" in her face comes from the new donor heart the almost 1-year-old Parchment girl received in heart transplant surgery early Friday morning at the University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor.

A little girl who was born with only half a heart is getting a new lease on life.

Births BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL Shaquita Jackson, of Kalamazoo, a daughter. Anabel McManus and Michael Curtis, of Portage, a son.

Kate Roelof, 4-1/2 of Parchment listens intently as Kevin King, the Kalamazoo Public Library head of Patron Services reads aloud during the KPL's annual "Party in the Park" for children Wednesday morning in Bronson Park.

Some fun local playgrounds are, clockwise from left, Kindleberger Park in Parchment; Upjohn Park in Kalamazoo; Chancy Lewis Park in Lawton; and Lawrence Park.

A local teacher is leaving the car at home Friday morning and walking several miles to school.

Portage Northern Chemistry teacher Mike Huber,right, challenged his class to work together to pass a chemistry test.

Mike Huber figured it would be the perfect motivation to persuade some failing students to study for a chemistry test.

Here are vital statistics for Thursday, May 7, 2009: Births BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL Aaron and Heather Barsy, of Kalamazoo, a daughter.

As part-time New York City residents, we're pleased our colleague Richard Read gave props to the NYPD for their purchase of 40 Nissan Altima Hybrids to be used on patrol duty.

The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team located three sites of methamphetamine labs Wednesday and arrested two people in connection with their investigations.

It's been a busy day for the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team. Things started around 10:00 a.m. when police in Parchment discovered a meth-lab dump site on the side of the road in Cooper Township.

Oshtemo and Kalamazoo townships have agreed to fund a study of whether a new interchange to the U.S. 131 Business Loop could solve their dispute over gravel-truck traffic.

Dick VanderMolen talks with five-year-old Imari Casey Tuesday evening while volunteering at the Vineyard Outreach Ministry of the Trinity Lutheran Church.