SOUTH HAVEN — Voters in the South Haven Public School district approved a $34.85 million bond issue that will pay for a wide variety of building and athletic facilities upgrades throughout the school system, starting in the spring of 2022.

SOUTH HAVEN — The ability to affect water rescues by South Haven Area Emergency Services responders has been enhanced with the acquisition of a specialized drone.

Through the pandemic last year, downtown South Haven merchants were able to hold an unusual fundraiser that brought in $3,500 for a human service ministry.

A month ago, much of South Haven remained in the dark for four hours following an electrical power outage that.

SOUTH HAVEN — In the 22 years that John Mellein has spent collecting beach glass, he always dreamed of some day finding a message in a bottle.

SOUTH HAVEN — Voters in the South Haven Public School district will decide whether to approve a $34.85 million bond issue, which would lead to a variety of building and athletic facility improvements.

SOUTH HAVEN — As hummingbirds make their way back to Southwest Michigan this month, it’s only fitting the latest outdoor sculpture in South Haven depicts a large hummingbird gathering nectar from a flower.

SOUTH HAVEN — This school year has been anything but normal for South Haven High School’s class of 2021.

BANGOR — Quick response from an off-duty K-9 deputy has led to the arrest of two South Haven area men following the alleged break-in of a home in Bangor Township.

SOUTH HAVEN — Nearly 400 communities in Michigan are located in coastal areas. Two of those areas in Southwest Michigan – South Haven and Chikaming Township – are part of a two-year Michigan State University study that will detail how erosion and changing weather patterns are changing Michig…

SOUTH HAVEN — Kristina Lindemulder and Sarah Peterson have been friends since second grade. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise the two have decided as adults to go into business together.

SOUTH HAVEN — Ten years ago, a group of residents who live on the south side of South Haven decided to form a group to improve their neighborhood.

SOUTH HAVEN — Seven months after being vandalized, Sherman Dairy Bar’s iconic Blue Moo and Baby Blue are back.

SOUTH HAVEN — Some residents of South Haven know Jennifer Sistrunk for the brochures, logos and billboards she has designed for clients in Southwest Michigan. Others know her as the advertising and marketing manager for Clementine’s and HawksHead restaurants in South Haven and Clementine’s T…

SOUTH HAVEN — It’s been a little over a year since South Haven City Council decided to reduce the number of lanes on a portion of Business Loop 196 from five to three, while adding bike paths on either side of the roadway.

SOUTH HAVEN — For 100 years, a group of South Haven area community leaders has gathered at noon every Monday to grab a bite to eat, socialize, listen to a program, and then brainstorm about ways to help the community.

SOUTH HAVEN — Joe Wilkins of South Haven had his reservations about getting the COVID-19 vaccination. But he also knew it was important to do so to control the deadly virus.

SOUTH HAVEN — In 2020 South Haven became one of only four cities in the state to earn the designation of Pure Michigan Trail Town. This year, three groups will capitalize on that distinction by creating more bike racks downtown.

SOUTH HAVEN — Several governmental agencies in South Haven are working together, along with the South Haven/Van Buren County Convention and Visitors Bureau and South Haven Area Chamber of Commerce, to increase outdoor recreational opportunities for local residents and visitors.

SOUTH HAVEN — On the heels of South Haven city officials’ decision earlier this month to cancel the popular Fourth of July fireworks display, organizers of another popular summertime event have announced they too, will be canceling their festival for 2021.

SOUTH HAVEN — When the Mars rover Perseverance landed on the red planet on Feb. 18, people viewing on TV may have assumed engineers and scientists gathered in NASA’s control room were the only ones involved with the project.

SOUTH HAVEN — If all goes as planned, ground will be broken this summer for a hemp growing and processing operation in Geneva Township, about 5 miles east of South Haven.

SOUTH HAVEN — At a time when America’s racial divisions have come to the forefront with the pending trial of a white ex-Minneapolis police officer accused of killing black resident George Floyd by kneeling on his neck, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a white woman from South Haven would…

SOUTH HAVEN — For the second year in a row, fireworks will not be lighting up the shores of South Haven during the Fourth of July holiday.

SOUTH HAVEN — In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and a major building renovation project, what does a library’s staff do to attract patrons?

SOUTH HAVEN — Two months ago, South Haven City Council members hired a new clerk to take the place of Travis Sullivan, who went on to become the zoning administrator for the city.

SOUTH HAVEN — It took nearly five years of planning and financing to create South Haven’s new splash pad, but one of the results of that effort is an award from the Michigan Chapter of the American Public Works Association.

SOUTH HAVEN — Albemarle Corp. announced nearly six years ago that it planned to sell its South South Haven plant. Now the company has a buyer.

SOUTH HAVEN — South Haven Area Emergency Services has always had a cadet program to recruit part-time on-call firefighters, but officials haven’t really promoted the program.

When Dr. H. Clifford Lane, an assistant to Dr. Anthony Fauci, traveled to China a year ago as part of a delegation of scientists studying how the deadly COVID-19 virus had emerged in that country, he found a population determined to confront the disease.

SOUTH HAVEN — Thanks to two federal grants and the generosity of a business owner, plans will proceed this fall for construction of a bike path along a heavily trafficked portion of Phoenix Street and resurfacing of the road from 73rd Street to 71 1/2 Street.

SOUTH HAVEN — In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, with students still learning online and parents working from home, municipal leaders in the South Haven area are painfully aware of the need for reliable internet service.

Work is now underway for the new $7 million Holiday Inn Express on Phoenix Road in South Haven Township.

SOUTH HAVEN — While contractors work to finish the new Bronson South Haven Hospital in time for its opening in April, ground was broken this month for a new building on the hospital campus that will be home to Bronson Wound Center & Hyperbaric Medicine and Bronson Surgical Services.

SOUTH HAVEN — Aris Gallas knows what it’s like to deal with Caring Circle Hospice. When her mother Cindy was very ill, Aris turned to Caring Circle to help care for her mom in her final days.

SOUTH HAVEN — Last year, city council members made control of flooding and erosion from record-high Lake Michigan water levels a top priority.

SOUTH HAVEN — Throughout much of 2020, the Speakers Series of South Haven had to conduct presentations virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SOUTH HAVEN — COVID-19-related medical calls and Lake Michigan drownings led to a busy year in 2020 for South Haven Area Emergency Services first responders.

SOUTH HAVEN — Birthdays don’t impress Marian S. Anderson.

South Haven native Christopher T. Hanson has been tapped as the next chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by President Joe Biden, effective immediately.

SOUTH HAVEN — For the past month South Haven Downtown Development Authority Director Sue Brock has been asking downtown merchants about the creation of a “social district.”

SOUTH HAVEN — When South Haven city officials approved an ordinance two years ago to charge short-term rental homeowners $500 annually to rent their dwellings on a regular basis, officials thought the fees would offset home inspection costs and other expenditures associated with the STR program.

SOUTH HAVEN — Ice skaters will now have more opportunities to use the downtown South Haven ice rink.