SOUTH HAVEN — For the past year, consultants Jim Hettinger and Patricia Muellen have spent much of their time compiling data and gathering input from business owners, community leaders and yes, even “average joes,” to come up with a 10-year plan to position South Haven as a magnet for econom…

Liji Hanny of South Haven says his life is blessed, from his family to his job as director of operations at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton Harbor. 

SOUTH HAVEN — It’s not every day that teachers, coaches and administrators agree to willingly allow students to pie them in the face, but more than a handful at South Haven High School agreed to do just that just before Thanksgiving.

In years past, Dominick Lignell has had to draw a hand turkey for a class assignment.

SOUTH HAVEN — When Jim Hettinger of Douglas looks up and down the Lake Michigan shoreline these days he doesn’t like what he sees.

SOUTH HAVEN — Downtown South Haven will be hopping next Friday for the annual Holiday in the Park – South Haven’s official start of the holiday season.

SOUTH HAVEN — Over the past several years, South Haven Police Chief Natalie Thompson has made it a priority to have each squad car equipped with an automatic external defibrillator and that officers be trained on how to use them and administer CPR.

PAW PAW — When he was elected three years ago, Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott pledged to be a “working sheriff.”

SOUTH HAVEN — A housing development that languished during the Great Recession is now beginning to take shape again.

SOUTH HAVEN — Former city council member Jeff Arnold defeated newcomer Nadine Newman for the Second Ward seat in South Haven in Tuesday’s election, while Third Ward incumbent Steve Schlack won by just four votes over Liji Hanny, according to unofficial results.

SOUTH HAVEN — Running 50 5K races in 52 weeks sounds like a tall order to fill, but not for 49-year-old Melinda Gruber of South Haven.

SOUTH HAVEN — Every dog has its day, and Medal of Honor recipient James McCloughan doesn’t have a problem with that, even if he gets cut out of the photo.

SOUTH HAVEN — A nonprofit that provides services and activities for older adults will soon be breathing new life into a grocery store that has sat idle for two years.

SOUTH HAVEN — South Haven voters will head to the polls next Tuesday to elect members to the city council and determine whether to allow recreational marijuana businesses to locate in town.

SOUTH HAVEN — The driver involved in a car accident that claimed the life of a young Covert Township man earlier this month could be facing criminal charges.

SOUTH HAVEN — As the old saying goes, “There’s a child inside each one of us.”

SOUTH HAVEN — South Haven city officials shut down their municipal marinas just in the nick of time Tuesday, because by Wednesday morning high winds and waves from Lake Michigan caused significant flooding in the harbor. Throughout much of the morning, only the dock poles could be seen at th…

SOUTH HAVEN — A new principal will be taking the helm at Lincoln Elementary School.

SOUTH HAVEN — An entrepreneur who started what has become the largest exclusive cherry retailer in the country out of his car will be the keynote speaker at the South Haven Area Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Summit.

SOUTH HAVEN — More construction is planned along Center Street in downtown when the historic Hale block undergoes a $2.7 million renovation project that will create 10 new apartments and renovated commercial space. Several old buildings will also be demolished, with the plan to build new ones.

SOUTH HAVEN — Many South Haven residents have fond memories of sledding down the hill at Baer Park during the winter months. Soon, their children will be able to gather similar memories when the park re-opens for public use.

SOUTH HAVEN — Last week Gary Brown stopped at Wolverine Hardware and met what he referred to as “the meat machine.”

SOUTH HAVEN — City residents here are getting an unexpected windfall from the Center Street reconstruction project – bricks.

SOUTH HAVEN — Two years ago a group of South Haven High School’s cross-country runners got the opportunity to meet two former members of McFarland, Calif.’s cross team – a team made famous in the 2015 Disney movie, “McFarland USA,” for winning a state championship in 1987.

SOUTH HAVEN — A South Haven area man is facing criminal charges after allegedly hitting and seriously injuring two motorcyclists earlier this week, police say.

SOUTH HAVEN — The South Haven Police Department has received a $2,000 grant to bolster its bicycle safety efforts.

SOUTH HAVEN — With land being cleared for the new Bronson South Haven Hospital, it’s hard to imagine what the $22 million facility will look like when completed.

SOUTH HAVEN — As a former two-term Michigan governor and now a CNN senior contributor, Jennifer Granholm keeps a close watch on state and national politics. But as the guest speaker at Thursday’s South Haven Speakers Series, Granholm discussed something she has become very passionate about –…

SOUTH HAVEN — A decade ago retired inventor and philanthropist Mike Levine of Lakeland, Mich., envisioned a bicycle trail stretching from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron.

SOUTH HAVEN — From the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, South Haven lured in many commercial fishermen. Those days have all but been forgotten, the only reminder being two old warehouse buildings on the Black River built by the Jensen family for their fishing enterprises.