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Band Notes for the week of July 27, 2026
Coming Up:Friday, July 31: Freshman Marching Band Basics, 8am-Noon. Band Camp – August 10-14 – Monday-Thursday 8am-4pm; Friday 8am-2pmSaturday, August 15: Bluegill Frolic Parade 10am. Report time is 9:15am.Wednesday, Aug. 19: Marching Band Rehearsal, 7pm-9pm.Wednesday, August 26: Marching Band Rehearsal, 7pm-9pmThursday, August 27: Home Football Game vs. Bangor, Marching Band. Report time is 5:30pm. Freshman Marching […]
“We’re all in this together,” says Market Van Buren Executive Director
The orange cones in Marcellus are akin to Christmas trees to Zach Morris, Executive Director of Market Van Buren. The cones are harbingers of good things, good times and revitalization to come. The News has reported about it, the Village Council works toward it, and the DDA wears it like a sandwich board – Marcellus […]
UMC Welcomes All: Open hearts, open minds, open doors
Pastor Donnie Brooks welcomes everyone to the United Methodist Church, 197 W. Main, every Sunday morning at 9:15. “I’m a philosopher above all,” Pastor Donnie Brooks says. Brooks, pastor at the Marcellus United Methodist Church since October 1, 2023, believes the Church “is going in the right direction being true to itself – open […]
Cass District Library announces construction award for new Edwardsburg Branch
Cass District Library (CDL) is excited to announce the construction award of the district’s new Edwardsburg Branch library to Cornerstone Construction Management. The Library’s Board of Trustees unanimously accepted the $4.6 million bid. Cornerstone Construction Management will join a project that began in 2022 with the success of the library’s ballot initiative to restore its […]
Construction on M-40 and US 131 Resumes Monday, April 15
M-40 rebuilding in Van Buren County resumes Monday, April 15KALAMAZOO, Mich. ¬- The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is completing work this year to rebuild and repave more than 3.5 miles of M-40 from South Lagrave Street in Paw Paw to 72nd Avenue in Lawton, Van Buren County. Work beings Monday, April 15, and is […]
What Caitlin Clark Means To Basketball?
I think it is safe to say that we all know who Caitlin Clark is. Her performance on and off the court has thrust her into absolute stardom! She has set records. She has led her team to the top of college basketball and has caught the heart of many young girls. But what does […]
Farm and Food File
by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com Another $1 billion to refinance status quo won’t stop ag pandemics When word came out of Texas on April 1 that avian flu had made another unwelcome hop–this one from a dairy cow to a human–the news seemed like an April Fool’s joke. It wasn’t. In fact, highly pathogenic avian influenza […]
The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories
PREHISTORIC, a While Ago Anywayby John Mooy In my youth I recall wondering the wooded areas, streams and lakes around Marcellus wondering what it must have been like hundreds, thousands and even millions of years ago. We looked at ourselves as explorers and were overjoyed when in our keen skills of observation, we might […]
Bits & Pieces: Sounds You Don’t Hear
by Paula Johnson As in an old Perry Mason episode, “we see, but we don’t see” led to the solving of a murder mystery. The murderer ditched his elevator heeled shoes and bought a kid’s Halloween costume to blend in and attempt a perfect murder. Something similar can be said about, “we used to […]
