Category Archives: Top News Stories

Coldwater Family Fare store closes on Friday, nothing official on property future
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Friday will be the final day the Coldwater Family Fare grocery store at 410 North Marshall will be open. The closing of the store was announced just over a month ago and caught ...
Jim Measel May 14, 2021 Signs posted Thursday at the Coldwater Family Fare store.

Community Health Agency offers updated quarantine guidelines for schools
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - With the school year winding down, the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency has issued guidelines concerning the quarantining of students in a close contact situa...
Jim Measel May 13, 2021 EpicTop10.com / CC

Hillsdale Hospital to vaccine county youngsters from 12 to 18 next Saturday
HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) - Hillsdale Hospital announced on Thursday they will offer Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to eligible Hillsdale County youngsters between the ages of 12 and 18 next Saturday, M...
Jim Measel May 13, 2021 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC

Hillsdale woman hurt in fifth Branch County injury crash this week
QUINCY TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A bad week on Branch County roads continued on Thursday morning as a Hillsdale woman was injured when her small SUV crashed into a tree east of Quincy. The crash on U.S. 1...
Jim Measel May 13, 2021 Branch County Sheriff's Department patch

With Steel retirement, Union City School District begins search for new Superintendent
UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) - The process of selecting a new Superintendent in the Union City Community School District has gotten underway as Ronna Steel will be retiring at the end of the school year. Her...
Jim Measel May 12, 2021 Union City School Superintendent Ronna Steel

CCS schedules Community Forum for Tuesday evening at new Lakeland school
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Community School district want to hear from its patrons about the future of the district. They have scheduled a Community Forum for next Tuesday, May 18 at the new...
Jim Measel May 12, 2021

Three 911 Project tower sites expected to be in place by end of month
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Branch County Administrator Bud Norman told the 911 Communications Board on Wednesday that platforms and towers at three of the five sites that would be part of a $9.3 million B...
Jim Measel May 12, 2021 Scary Side of Earth / CC

Commissioners approve Lake George lake level interlocal agreement
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Branch County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution during Tuesday's meeting which approves an interlocal agreement on the lake level of Lake George. The Branch Count...
Jim Measel May 11, 2021 Branch County Court House (photo courtesy Justin Lopshire, Midwest Communications, Inc.)

Frye enters no contest plea in fatal 2019 Amish buggy crash in Algansee Township
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A Fremont, Indiana man entered a no contest plea on Tuesday in Branch County Circuit Court to a charge of O.W.I. Causing Death in connection with a Algansee Township crash in Ju...
Jim Measel May 11, 2021 Blogtrepreneur / CC

Council passes resolution in support of MDOT 2023 project on west side
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater City Council passed a resolution Monday night in support of the proposed MDOT roadway improvement project on U.S. 12 from Willow Lane to Western and Butters Avenue...
Jim Measel May 11, 2021

