Category Archives: Local News
Wages dominate lengthy County Commissioner work session
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County Administrator Bud Norman told the Board of Commissioners during their work session on Wednesday that a wage study which they had requested would take nearly four m...
Sep 22, 2021 Pictures of Money / CC
Late summer festival goes back to being Quincy Daze, Pints in the Park this weekend
QUINCY, MI (WTVB) - After being called the Quincy Main Street Festival for the last three years, the Quincy Village Council approved a request on Tuesday night to change the name of the late summer ev...
Sep 22, 2021 Courtesy Village of Quincy
Norman announces new jail ribbon cutting is set for October 22
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County Administrator Bud Norman announced during Wednesday mornings Board of Commissioners work session that the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Branch County Jail wi...
Sep 22, 2021
COVID-19 related deaths in Branch County now stands at 105
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Statistics posted on the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency web site on Tuesday shows the number of COVID-19 related deaths in Branch County since the pandemic ...
Sep 22, 2021 Jernej Furman / CC
BUSINESS BEAT: St. Paul Lutheran Church raising money for new roof with BBQ dinner
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Area Chamber of Commerce is asking community residents to help out St. Paul Lutheran Church at 95 State Street in Coldwater. They will be holding their third annua...
Sep 22, 2021
Storage unit building destroyed in Ovid Township fire near East Pearl and Old 27
OVID TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A building which contained storage units was destroyed in a fire that broke out Wednesday morning near the intersection of East Pearl Road and Old U.S. 27 north of Kinderhoo...
Sep 22, 2021 Courtesy Lakeland Fire Department Facebook page
Small 3.6 earthquake reported in Calhoun County
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - A small earthquake that measured 3-point-6 on the Richter scale took place just after noon Tuesday about nine miles southeast of Battle Creek. Several residents said they h...
Sep 22, 2021 Artur Bergman / CC
Indiana man charged with taking three marijuana plants from Coldwater home
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - An Indiana man has been formally charged in connection with braking into a Coldwater home on June 4 and taking three marijuana plants. Following a Coldwater Police Department in...
Sep 21, 2021 Coldwater Police vehicle (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Five local programs receive second round of Coldwater Solar Community grants
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Apex Clean Energy and esaSolar has announced the second round of Coldwater Solar Community Grants have been made to five Coldwater-area programs and organizations. Coldwater Sol...
Sep 21, 2021
MDOT reschedules I-69 work in Kinderhook Township to start Friday
KINDERHOOK TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - The Michigan Department of Transportation has rescheduled for a third time a repair project on I-69 in southern Branch County. The work is now scheduled to start Frida...
Sep 21, 2021
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