Plainwell News

Borgess Medical Center JOLENE JENKINS and GREGORY JOHNSON, of Allegan, a daughter.

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.

Kalamazoo College's The Index reports on a recent "Occupy the Weight Room" event at the school, during which "about 10 women gathered together in the name of creating an equal opportunity workout space at Kalamazoo College." The Plainwell & Otsego Union Enterprise reports that Toni Marie Sumerix, 34, of Plainwell, has been sentenced to serve five ... (more)

Firefighters are on the scene fighting a house fire at 10552 N 6th St. near Plainwell tonight.

Police have identified the woman arrested during a traffic stop that led to the discovery of a working meth lab in a vehicle near U.S. 131 in Plainwell last week as 38-year-old Christine Anne Snowdon.

The following is a sample of incidents to which officers responded Jan. 31. It was provided by the Allegan County Sherifff's Office.

Kalamazoo Valley Habitat for Humanity is inviting the public to join it at Bell's Brewery for beer and appetizers as part of its first ever Habi Hour.

Fahrenbacher's work will be highlighted during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 6-8 p.m. Feb.

Repairs are almost complete at Dean's Ice Cream in Plainwell following an accident earlier this month that involved a pickup truck crashing through a wall of the building, owner Gerald Bentley said Tuesday.

Postal employee Tom Nufer, 55, right, takes a package from Terri Ouding, 55 of Plainwell at the Parchment Post Office.

As workers collect and classify hazardous waste at the former RockTenn paper mill here, workers down the road in Plainwell are buffing the floors in new offices created at that city's old paper mill site.

Police say blood on a mattress found in the truck of a 41-year-old Delton man arrested in September belongs to Paul Frederick Atchley.

A farmers market in Plainwell this sum mer will open at a new loca tion and include additional activities as part of a "Fresh Fridays" campaign to draw people downtown.

Charges are pending against an unnamed woman in her 30's arrested yesterday afternoon along US-131 near Plainwell.

Police found a meth lab and/or components following a search inside a vehicle near U.S. 131 in Plainwell this afternoon.

Gobles, Bloomingdale and Bangor are among the Van Buren County schools closed today, and in Allegan County, Allegan and Plainwell are running buses on main roads only, citing icy conditions, following a weekend of snow turned to rain.

Few members of the current generation are likely to land a job coming out of high school that they will keep for 30 or 40 years, pundits say.

Pillars of light like these from 2009 in Michigan shown on the National Weather Service's web site were seen in Otsego and Plainwell last night.

A judge today ordered a Delton man detained on a federal weapons charge as police investigate the death of one of his roommates and disappearance of another.

Human remains found last year in southeastern Kalamazoo County are that of a Battle Creek man missing since August, police said Monday.