Category Archives: Local News
CHA: Branch County COVID-19 deaths up to 72, vaccine in short supply
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - As the number of Branch County COVID-19 deaths continues to climb, the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency says they have a very limited supply of COVID-19 vacci...
Jan 08, 2021 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
Ovid Township solar energy talks continue, next meeting on the 26th
OVID TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - The sausage is still being made in Ovid Township when it comes to solar power. Township Supervisor Greg Gemmill says a Tuesday night Ovid Township Planning Commission public...
Jan 07, 2021 Jeremy Levine / CC
Branch County's first baby of 2021 born to Coldwater couple.
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County's first baby of 2021 is a boy. Officials at ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital have announced that Walker Johnathan Birk was born on Wednesday morning at 8:23 a...
Jan 07, 2021 Photo courtesy of ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital
County seeks state deadline extension for Designated Assessor
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County has been trying in recent weeks to get enough governmental units in the county to agree to having a local Designated Assessor. There was a December 31 deadline to ...
Jan 07, 2021 Branch County Court House (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
BCSD losing another road patrol deputy on the 17th
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The already short handed Branch County Sheriff's Department will be losing another road patrol deputy later this month. Branch County Sheriff John Pollack told the Board of Comm...
Jan 07, 2021 Branch County Sheriff's Department patch
Coldwater man facing 10 charges in child sex crime case
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A Coldwater man was arraigned on Thursday afternoon in Branch County District Court on ten charges involving child sex crimes. 68-year-old Dennis Roger Watson was booked at the ...
Jan 07, 2021
BUSINESS BEAT: Culy's Jewelry announces new owners
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Culy's Jewelry in downtown Coldwater has new owners and the family owned and operated business will stay in the family. The new owners as of New Year's Day are Laura Trojanowski...
Jan 07, 2021
Coldwater BPU Butters Avenue substation almost ready
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Coldwater Board of Public Utilities Engineering and Technical Services Director Jim Odneal reported to the CBPU Board of Directors on Wednesday that the load for the Butters Ave...
Jan 06, 2021
Walberg "strongly condemns" U.S. Capitol violence
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTVB) - Michigan Seventh District Republican Congressman Tim Walberg denounced the violence at the U.S. Capital on Wednesday which took place as a joint session of Congress was being...
Jan 06, 2021 USCapitol
Whitmer, MDHHS announce next phases of vaccines to start Monday
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and officials from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services have announced that the state will be moving to the next phase of COVID-...
Jan 06, 2021 Official U.S. Navy Page / CC
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