There will be three discussion sessions in Berrien County heralding the release of “Building Bridges Across the Racial Divide,” written by Larry and Sandy Feldman of Southwest Michigan and published by Peter Lang Publishers.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
BENTON HARBOR — The OutCenter will be celebrating several Southwest Michigan residents who have stepped up and stepped out to help propel the LGBT movement forward.
Monday, May 13, 2019
NEW BUFFALO — A passenger died following a fatal car crash this weekend in New Buffalo Township.
Thursday, May 02, 2019
NEW BUFFALO — A South Bend-based credit union is in the process of acquiring the New Buffalo Savings Bank in the third quarter of 2019.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
NEW BUFFALO — There will be a lot more to love than beer when Ghost Isle Brewery opens on April 15 along the tracks at 17684 U.S. 12.
Friday, March 01, 2019
ST. JOSEPH — The Berrien County Drain Commissioner’s office has received a statewide award for a project that reduced flooding around New Buffalo’s water plant, while restoring wildlife and the environment and saving millions from the original cost estimate.
Friday, February 08, 2019
NEW BUFFALO — Two years after opening Beer Church Brewing Co., John Lustina and Jane Simon are nearly finished with extensive renovations at the unique New Buffalo brewpub.
Friday, November 30, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — New Buffalo Township has joined the list of municipal investors in Cornerstone Alliance by approving a $5,000 payment, representing a yearly investment to help underwrite the marketing of a potential industrial park in the township.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
By David Johnson
Sunday, November 11, 2018
SAWYER — Chikaming Open Lands buys land and carves trails.
Friday, November 09, 2018
ST. JOSEPH — Berrien County commissioners on Thursday got a look at the final proposal for a park and biking/hiking trail along Red Arrow Highway from Bridgman to New Buffalo.
Monday, October 29, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — New Buffalo Township wants to be the welcoming committee for drivers entering Michigan.
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — Ezra Scott of New Buffalo, a first-term member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners and a Republican representing District 9, is facing Democratic challenger David Blum of New Buffalo Township on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Friday, September 14, 2018
ST. JOSEPH — St. Joseph Public Schools are considered the 19th best school district in Michigan this year, according to a school ranking website.
Friday, August 31, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — The Simas spent years pondering what to do with the 3.5 acres of New Buffalo Township property that sits along the stretch of roadway where Red Arrow Highway transforms into U.S. 12.
Thursday, August 09, 2018
Michigan’s Longest Garage Sale returns to Southwest Michigan this Friday and continues through the weekend.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — The name says it all at the I Can Café, New Buffalo’s newest eatery on the city’s western edge.
Monday, July 09, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — Agreeing that Carts on 12 owner Ed Arnold had made significant progress in cleaning up his property and complying with township ordinances, the New Buffalo Township Board has approved a new two-week extension to his special land use permit for his property at 19425 and 19415 U.…
Saturday, July 07, 2018
John Lustina had never seen so much excitement for cement being poured.
Sunday, June 24, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — A business at the center of a lively squabble in New Buffalo Township is facing a July 6 deadline to shut down.
Sunday, June 03, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — A homeless New Buffalo man who lived on an island on the Galien River for decades has a new lease on life – literally.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — Downtown New Buffalo has entered its busy summer with new look North Whittaker Street.
Sunday, May 27, 2018
BENTON TOWNSHIP — Geeks will again descend on the Mendel Center in Benton Township for the Second Annual Fandom Fest June 9, sponsored by 13 local libraries.
Friday, May 04, 2018
BENTON TOWNSHIP — Berrien County is ready to do a feasibility study for a bike and hiking path along the southern section of Red Arrow Highway, but they won’t be burning rubber to get the project done.
Sunday, April 15, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — For nearly 20 years a massive hotel stood above the shore of Lake Michigan, drawing golfers, beach-goers, equestrians and storied prize fighters to Grand Beach.
Friday, April 13, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — A former postal carrier in Indiana stands accused of dumping an estimated 17,000 pieces of mail in a ravine near New Buffalo, the LaPorte Herald-Argus reported.
Monday, March 26, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — New Buffalo Township is promising $150,000 as its local match for a proposed state grant to help fund the township’s portion of the 58-mile nonmotorized trail connecting Chicago to downtown New Buffalo.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
BENTON TOWNSHIP — Medic 1 is getting a pay raise.
Sunday, March 04, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — Fans of Redamak’s hamburgers in New Buffalo will have to wait another month to bite into the legend.
NEW BUFFALO — Variety appears the spice of The Sage Bistro in New Buffalo.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — Persistence, like faith, can move mountains, or at least a whole lot of sand.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
BERRIEN SPRINGS — Dennis Duis stood outside his home in rain boots, surveying the street.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP — Toxic chromium water spills into Lake Michigan last April and October have spurred the formation of a regional advisory consortium to protect water supplies in communities from New Buffalo to Bridgman and Three Oaks.
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
NEW BUFFALO — For years residents of southern Berrien County have been swimming against the current to find a solution to severe beach erosion they blame on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New Buffalo breakwall the agency built in 1975.
NEW BUFFALO — Keeping their homes safe from Lake Michigan has been no day at the beach for south Berrien County lakeside residents.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
BENTON HARBOR — Two years after opening its third retail location, Third Coast Surf Shop plans to close its Benton Harbor store.
Friday, December 29, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — Ed Lijewski has accomplished a lot of things during his years as chief of the New Buffalo Township Fire Department.
Monday, December 25, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — There are a lot of quick ways to travel between Chicago and its Michigan exurbs in and around New Buffalo.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — The cash-only New Buffalo burger stop best known for biting into “The Legend” is in the process of renovating.
Friday, December 15, 2017
ST. JOSEPH — The Berrien County Parks Department got a shiny present under its Christmas tree – and a lump of coal in its stocking.
Sunday, December 03, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — Summer is when tourists and second home owners dominate downtown New Buffalo.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Michigan’s lakeshore towns have always had an allure during summer.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — The Local Revenue Sharing Board is handing out $4.5 million in Four Winds Casino and Resort receipts to 12 taxing bodies.
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph wants the Army Corps of Engineers to help stop beach erosion in New Buffalo and New Buffalo Township.
Friday, September 08, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — It’ll take 33 submerged breakwaters and $22 million to stop and reverse erosion on New Buffalo-area beaches, an engineer reported.
Friday, September 01, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — Shannon Swindle likes to make people laugh.
Monday, August 14, 2017
HARBERT — Chikaming Township’s “Path of Trees” program is a memorial planting program at the township’s Park and Preserve along Warren Woods Road.
Saturday, August 05, 2017
Cathy Knauf was staying in a Texas hotel back in January when she came across the TraffickCam project.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
NEW BUFFALO — At a grand opening celebration 10 years ago, owners and managers predicted that Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo Township would “set a new standard for gambling in the Midwest.”
NEW BUFFALO — Over the past five years, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians has made almost $340 million in economic investments to the Southwest Michigan and northwestern Indiana region through its Four Winds casinos, according to a recent news release from the Pokagons.
In September 1994 President Bill Clinton signed legislation reaffirming tribal status for three Michigan Indian tribes, including the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.