Category Archives: Local News
Few contested races on Branch County General Election ballot
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - There won't be many contested races for Branch County voters to decide in the General Election on November 8. The filing deadlines to get on the ballot have past for local r...
Aug 19, 2022 Phil Roeder / CC
Summer vacation ends, back to school for most Branch County students on Monday
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Frank Sinatra once sang, "and the summer went so quickly this year". Summer vacation is over and it's back to school on Monday for students in the Coldwater, Bronson and Qui...
Aug 19, 2022
BUSINESS BEAT: PCRH announce awarding of Dutcher, Thrasher and Cohen Memorial Scholarships
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The ProMedica Foundations department has announced that through their three scholarships, students were awarded $3,500 for this Fall. Scholarships included the Marina Dutcher Me...
Aug 19, 2022 Photos courtesy ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital
Z.B.A. approves Jakubczak's fence variance request, goes over by-law changes
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Zoning Board of Appeals approved requests from Coldwater Board of Public Utilities Director Paul Jakubczak and his wife Kerri Wednesday night for height and charac...
Aug 18, 2022 Henry L. Brown Municipal Building in Coldwater (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Batavia Twp Planning Commission to review amended Solar Ordinance on September 7
BATAVIA TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - An amended Solar Ordinance is scheduled to come before the Batavia Township Planning Commission on September 7. The meeting in the Batavia Township Hall will start that e...
Aug 18, 2022 Hedgerow INC
BUSINESS BEAT: Hops on Monroe to be held as scheduled on Thursday evening
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Despite the issues this week with the Merriman Building at the corner of South Monroe and West Chicago, Hops on Monroe will be held as usual on Thursday evening between 5:00 p.m...
Aug 18, 2022
Coldwater Police investigating Wednesday night armed robbery at Meijer gas station
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Coldwater Police are investigating the armed robbery of the Meijer gas station at 610 East Chicago which took place late Wednesday night. Director of Public Safety Joe Scheid sa...
Aug 18, 2022 Scott Davidson / CC
Burlington Township break ins being investigated by MSP
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a breaking and entering complaint in the 800 block of 8 Mile Road in Burlington Township. Troopers say the victim repo...
Aug 18, 2022
Guilty pleas entered in June 2021 murder of Lake James woman
ANGOLA, IND. (WTVB) - The suspect in the June 2021 murder of a Lake James woman entered into a plea bargain agreement on Tuesday in Steuben County Circuit Court. A court spokesperson says 30-year-old ...
Aug 17, 2022 Courtesy Steuben County Sheriff's Department
Local and State health officials issue advisory for algal bloom in Round Lake
HILLSDALE COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency, in consultation with Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, has issued a public health advisory for a ...
Aug 17, 2022 eutrophication&hypoxia / CC
