Category Archives: Local News
MSP arrest Reading resident for getting drunk and firing weapon
READING TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A Reading resident was lodged in the Hillsdale County Jail on Tuesday night after the Michigan State Police say the 32-year-old subject got drunk and fired a weapon outsi...
Mar 10, 2021
Six charges filed following alleged Dogo Argentino attacks on Pelton Avenue
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A Coldwater woman is facing six misdemeanor charges after her neighbor in the 200 block of Pelton Avenue complained to Coldwater Police that her two dogs attacked him twice in l...
Mar 09, 2021 Hossam el-Hamalawy / CC
Trine University to resume normal campus operations in August
ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) - Trine University President Doctor Earl Brooks II announced in an e-mail on Tuesday that the university plans to resume normal campus operations in August. In his messages to studen...
Mar 09, 2021
City Council tables purchase offer for Thompson Blvd property until April
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater City Council agreed on Monday night to place a purchase offer for a vacant lot at 28 Thompson Blvd. on the table for 30 days. Formal action on the Sales Agreement ...
Mar 09, 2021 Henry L. Brown Municipal Building in Coldwater (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Council gives city staff tentative approval on number of special projects
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A list of nearly $842,000 worth of special projects was given tentative approval by the Coldwater City Council on Monday night after a nearly 45 minute discussion. A spread shee...
Mar 09, 2021
Branch County new case COVID-19 positivity rate goes up to four percent
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - After falling for several weeks, new positive cases of COVID-19 in the State of Michigan are going back up according to the latest data from the Michigan Department of Healt...
Mar 09, 2021 sergio santos / CC
City Council approves purchase of second budgeted police vehicle
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater City Council approved the purchase Monday night of the second of two police cars that have been budgeted for the 2020/2021 budget year. Cole Story Ford in Coldwate...
Mar 09, 2021 Henry L. Brown Municipal Building in Coldwater (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
BUSINESS BEAT: Caywood Propane buying south part of Wilber's building
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Caywood Propane Gas of Coldwater is in the process of buying the most southerly part of the Wilber's Furniture building at 8 South Monroe Street. In the course of getting ready ...
Mar 09, 2021 Courtesy Caywood Propane Facebook page
Plans for 2021 Coldwater Strawberry Fest move forward
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - After the annual Strawberry Fest and Craft Show in downtown Coldwater was called off last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coldwater City Council gave the City's Recreatio...
Mar 08, 2021
Plea bargain filed in November Matteson Township shooting
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A man charged in connection with a November shooting incident in Matteson Township entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court. A cou...
Mar 08, 2021 Best Law
