Category Archives: Top News Stories
Branch Area Careers Center renovation project almost finished, final inspections still to be completed
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The renovation project at the Branch Area Careers Center is all but wrapped up. Career and Technical Education Assistant Superintendent Randy Sowles told the Branch I.S.D. Board...
May 26, 2022 Branch Area Careers Center, Coldwater MI sign (courtesy of BACC)
State approves $750,000 grant in support of renovating former Gillespie Funeral Home
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A state grant has been approved for the renovation of the former Gillespie Funeral Home at 27 Marshall Street in Coldwater. The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved a $750,000 M...
May 26, 2022 Courtesy of Southern Michigan Bank and Trust
BISD Board approves hiring of two new administrators
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch Intermediate School District Board of Education approved the hiring of Mike Rasmussen as the new Principal of the Branch Area Careers Center on Wednesday. He takes ov...
May 25, 2022
Coldwater Social District being expanded to seven days a week, hours remain the same
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Social District in Coldwater will be expanded to seven days after the Coldwater City Council approved a request from Main Street Director and Economic Development Coordinato...
May 25, 2022 Photo courtesy of Downtown Coldwater Facebook page
City Council approves PILOT program for Old Mill Race redevelopment project
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Plans to redevelop the Old Mill Race Apartments at 517 West Chicago got some financial help Monday night when the Coldwater City Council approved an ordinance which implements a...
May 25, 2022
Stolen pickup truck and utility trailer found by MSP in Kinderhook Township
KINDERHOOK TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A report of suspicious activity in Kinderhook Township early Tuesday morning led the Michigan State Police to find a pickup truck and a utility trailer that had both b...
May 24, 2022
Empty building in Fairfield Plaza to get makeover, office space for Michigan Works!
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A building in the Fairfield Plaza which has been empty since 2009 will be the subject of an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Abatement Certificate public hearing during the Cold...
May 24, 2022 Michigan Works! Southwest logo
Fifth District GOP Congressional Primary could have one less candidate
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - A Republican candidate in the newly created 5th Congressional District is one of 18 candidates who could be thrown off the August Primary ballot because she did not have enough va...
May 24, 2022 DonkeyHotey / CC
Sowards enters guilty pleas to three felony B and E charges, sentencing set for July 11
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A Coldwater man who had six criminal cases filed against him in connection with breaking and entering complaints between last October and this past February entered into a plea ...
May 24, 2022 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Exhibition driving ordinance passed by City Council, goes into effect June 13
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater City Council adopted an ordinance on Monday night on so called exhibition driving in the city. The ordinance prohibits rapid acceleration, squealing, peeling or bu...
May 23, 2022
