Van Buren County News

"I grew up on Sister Lakes and I never heard this story . Tell me more." Joe Scapino via Facebook Besides infatuation with four mop tops from Liverpool, there was also the frenzy for a furry fellow, the fabled Sister Lakes monster.

While some ballots will be filled with candidates for the August 7 primary election, things look sparse for ballot proposals.

Deputies in Van Buren County responded to a home in the 59000 block of 65th street around 10:00 Tuesday night after getting an anonymous tip regarding drug activity at the home.

Two Hartford men were jailed Tuesday, accused of operating and maintaining a methamphetamine lab in a home in the 59000 block of 65th Street.

Come learn about community gardens and why they are important by volunteering once.

A truck passes a piece of farm equipment on Ravine Road near Otsego; several other cars backed up behind it with no safe opportunities to go around.

A traffic stop in Van Buren County for littering led to a more serious charge when a deputy smelled marijuana in a car on Friday.

VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. - A 14-year-old girl is hospitalized after she was hit by an SUV while riding her bike.

A 14-year-old South Haven girl was thrown from her mountain bicycle and scraped and bruised when she pulled into the path of a car attempting to pass her as she rode to a neighbor's house in the 68000 block of County Road 380 Thursday night, police say.

Anti-nuclear activists say they'll meet with the outgoing chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission following his tour of the Palisades plant in southwestern Michigan.

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, which owns Four Winds Casinos in New Buffalo and Hartford, pitched its project to Pokagon Township board Thursday night at its Community Center off Dailey Road.

Van Buren County Circuit Judge Paul E. Hamre recalled how he got a phone call 20-some years ago when he was a private practice attorney, asking if he would help an attorney new to defense work.

Although no arrests were made, charges may be brought against a man and a woman in Paw Paw following the search of the woman's home Wednesday in the 600 block of Elm Street.

Betty Merrow, 79, of Eaton Rapids waves American flags wildly while singing out cheers outside for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney before he speaks in May.

Tom Duisterhof of Gordon Water and Molly Schmit of the Wolverine YMCA in Belmont are two of the prize winners during a recent Rockford Chamber of Commerce luncheon held at the Rockford Ambulance office on Shaner Avenue.

A suspect in a Bangor Township armed robbery was found in Kalamazoo Wednesday. Police took the man into custody after finding him with the suspect vehicle, a gray Dodge Caravan, at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on West Main Street in Kalamazoo at around 3 p.m. The man is a suspect in an armed robbery of a residence in Bangor Township yesterday, ... (more)

Van Buren County has a new, but temporary, register of deeds. She's Jill Arnold, who succeeds the late Carole Motycka.

Believe or not, Van Buren County has never had a female judge. That is about to change with the investiture of Kathleen Brickley to the 36th Circuit Court of Van Buren County on Thursday afternoon.

Van Buren County is facing the choice of not fixing a building with the possibility it becomes uninhabitable or paying up to $1 million to replace the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system for a tenant who pays no rent and whose lease expires in three years.

The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is scheduled to tour Entergy Corp.'s Palisades nuclear plant in southwestern Michigan this week.