Category Archives: Local News
Police training on new Branch 800 megahertz system to take place next week
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Law enforcement departments around Branch County are about ready to switch over to the new 800 megahertz emergency radio system. It was reported during Wednesday's Branch County...
Mar 09, 2022 Field testing for new 911 system. Photo courtesy of Coldwater Public Safety Police and Fire Facebook page
Village of Quincy Market 1858 shed applications now available
QUINCY, MI (WTVB) - The Village of Quincy is gearing up to open its downtown Market 1858 and they are looking to fill some shed openings. The Village is looking for ambitious small business owners to ...
Mar 09, 2022 Courtesy Quincy Market 1858 Facebook page
BUSINESS BEAT: KCC and partners get $1.1M grant from statewide competitive grant program
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) - The Michigan Learning and Education Advancement Program, otherwise known as MiLEAP, is a statewide competitive grant program which is allowing a partnership of regional commu...
Mar 09, 2022
DDA Board approve bids for Taylor's Stationers building work
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The City of Coldwater's Downtown Development Authority Board passed a pair of resolutions during a special Tuesday night meeting which approved bids for exterior maintenance wor...
Mar 08, 2022 Taylor's Stationers in downtown Coldwater before it closed in 2016. Photo courtesy of Taylor's Stationers
Commissioners tie 2-2 on application for Corn Island state grant thus ending process
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County Commissioners tied 2-2 Tuesday afternoon when they voted on submitting a state grant application that would have been used in the purchase of 27 acres on Corn Isla...
Mar 08, 2022 Branch County Court House and Clock Tower (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
MSP investigating St. Joseph County hit-and-run injury crash
WHITE PIGEON TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a hit and run crash in St. Joseph County. Troopers say it happened on Lake Road in White Pigeon Township as a 40-yea...
Mar 08, 2022
Planning Commission approves Special Use Permits for eight downtown Coldwater apartments
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Planning Commission approved a pair of Special Land Use Permit requests from Donner Properties, LLC, on Monday night that the Coldwater area developer hopes will l...
Mar 08, 2022
BUSINESS BEAT: Chamber reminding small businesses they can apply for COVID-19 relief funds
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Area Chamber of Commerce would like to remind small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 virus that they can now apply for grants and loans through the Michigan Sma...
Mar 08, 2022 Dustin Moore / CC
Planning Commission approves site plan for South Michigan recreational cannibis dispensary
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A site plan from Core Investment Group of Lansing to construct a 3,200 square foot retail sales building that would be a recreational cannibis dispensary at 55 South Michigan Av...
Mar 08, 2022 Blind Nomad / CC
Sturgis man formally charged with robbing Bronson area woman at gunpoint during home invasion
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - A Sturgis man was formally charged during a Friday arraignment in Branch County District Court with robbing a Bronson area woman at gunpoint in her home on October 22, 2021....
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