Category Archives: Local News
MSP investigating how contraband got into Lakeland on garbage truck
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - A Detroit newspaper is reporting that the Michigan State Police is investigating how contraband got into the Lakeland Correctional Facility last Friday aboard a truck belonging to...
Sep 1, 2022
BUSINESS BEAT: Squeak's Caddy Shack and Oscar Brown's Tavern hosting customer appreciation party
OVID TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - Squeak's Caddy Shack and Oscar Brown's Tavern will be saying thank you to those who have supported them by hosting a customer appreciation party on Friday evening between 5:...
Sep 1, 2022
Pokagon's Toboggan Run to get $1.3 million upgrade from State of Indiana
ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) - The State of Indiana has approved $1-point-3 million to complete renovations on the Toboggan Run at Pokagon State Park in Steuben County. The original request from the Indiana D.N....
Sep 1, 2022
Power restored in Branch County following Monday's storm, electricity still out for 9,800 CE customers
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Power has been restored for Consumer's Energy customers in Branch County following the Monday afternoon severe storms that packed wind gusts of between 60 and 70 MPH. Nearly...
Sep 1, 2022 Photo courtesy of Consumers Energy
Film on youth mental illness to be shown at Tibbits on September 24
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Pines Behavioral Health, together with the Youth Mental Health Project, will be showing the award winning film "No Letting Go," a true story of youth mental illness on September...
Aug 31, 2022 Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Apple Fest in downtown Coldwater to feature new vendor lay out on September 17
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Apple Fest will have a different layout when this year's annual event is held in downtown Coldwater. Economic Development Coordinator Audrey Tappenden told the Downtown Developm...
Aug 31, 2022
DDA Board approves Taylor's building repayment and lease agreements
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Downtown Development Authority Board approved repayment and lease agreements for the former Taylor's Stationers store Wednesday morning during a special meeting. Efforts to ...
Aug 31, 2022 Taylor's Stationers in downtown Coldwater before it closed in 2016. Photo courtesy of Taylor's Stationers
BUSINESS BEAT: Final Hops on Monroe for this year set for Thursday evening
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - This week is the final week of Hops On Monroe. You can send off summer on Thursday evening and start the long weekend with craft beer, food trucks, and live music. On The Roll a...
Aug 31, 2022
Branch County Democratic Party HQ grand opening set for Thursday evening
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The grand opening of the Branch County Democratic party headquarters at 31 West Chicago in Coldwater will be held Thursday evening. The event will take place from 6:00 p.m. unti...
Aug 31, 2022 David / CC
Some Branch Consumers customers may not get power back until Friday.
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Consumer Energy crews continue to restore electric service to southern Michigan customers but according to the outage page on the utility's web site, some Branch County resi...
Aug 30, 2022
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