Category Archives: Top News Stories
CFD Chief gets City Council permission to start process for new vehicle
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater City Council gave Fire Chief Dave Schmaltz permission on Monday night to begin the process of creating apparatus specifications and then accepting bids for a new v...
Sep 27, 2021 Coldwater Fire Department (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Wallen, Searls and Keller named Union City Citizens of the Year
UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) - Barb Wallen, Stephen Searls and Don Keller were chosen by local residents as the winners of the 2021 Union City Citizens of the Year Award . The announcement of the 2021 winner...
Sep 27, 2021 Courtesy Village of Union City
Fink says new state budget protects Michigan residents from "government overreach into private health decisions,"
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - State Representative Andrew Fink says the state budget for the fiscal year beginning this Friday includes measures which he says protect personal freedoms related to vaccination a...
Sep 27, 2021 Courtesy State Representative Andrew Fink
Coldwater BPU Board to hold Wednesday workshop to discuss search for Budd's successor
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Board of Public Utilities Board of Directors will hold a workshop Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. to discuss the search for the next utility director. Current Director Jeff...
Sep 24, 2021
County wants to move 911 and Payroll Supervisor positions to non-union management
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch County Board of Commissioners brought forward a request during their Wednesday work session to move the 911 Supervisor and the Payroll Supervisor positions to non-uni...
Sep 24, 2021 Branch County Court House and Clock Tower (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Prosecutors file three additional charges in murder case of Lake James woman
ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) - Steuben County Prosecutors have filed three additional charges against a man who is accused of murdering his former Lake James neighbor. According to State of Indiana on line court...
Sep 24, 2021 Courtesy Steuben County Sheriff's Department
Branch County judge issues temporary restraining order to release football players from quarantine
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The statewide advocacy group Let Them Play Michigan is claiming its first victory of the new school year over county health department quarantine rules, after a Branch County ju...
Sep 24, 2021 Let Them Play Michigan rally at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan (courtesy of Let Them Play Michigan)
Angry parents blast Health Department quarantine policy for school kids
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Angry parents blasted Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency Health Officer Rebecca Burns during Thursday's Board of Health meeting over her quarantine orders of sc...
Sep 23, 2021 Tim Reckmann / CC
Bob Swick named as new Branch County 911 Director, begins new duties on October 11
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County Administrator Bud Norman announced on Thursday that Robert "Bob" Swick has accepted the position of being the county's new 911 Director. Swick previously worked wi...
Sep 23, 2021
Heavy rain hits Branch County, over 3 1/2 inches measured since Tuesday night
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Your rain gauge maybe different but the Michigan State University Extension Service weather station at the Bloom Dairy Farm west of Coldwater has measured over three-and-a-h...
Sep 23, 2021 VV Nincic / CC
