• Jail graduates two
  • Cass gas station preserved
  • Essex first Sobriety Court success
  • J. Gage families play at math
  • Area’s best wrestlers gathering

The Latest

Road Commission has three-year contract

CASSOPOLIS—A new three-year contract between the Cass County Road Commission and Teamsters Local Union 214 was signed early in January and replaces a contract that ... Read more

Bond cost $21.85 million

Dowagiac Board of Education put a price tag of borrowing $21.85 million to implement by fall 2015 the educational plan developed to restructure the school ... Read more

Lori, Tyler team up

State Rep. Matt Lori, R-Constantine, will sponsor office hours to meet with residents of Sturgis and Dowagiac in February. The sessions are: • Lori and ... Read more

Pamida boosts schools, pantry

Stacey Petersen, a new shift leader at Pamida, presented more than $1,100 to Dowagiac Union Schools and to Helping Hands of Cass County in Cassopolis ... Read more

Release concert Saturday

Edwardsburg’s Emilee Allan performs a CD release concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Lerner Theater, 410 South Main St. in Elkhart, Ind. Call (800) 294-8223 ... Read more

  1. 69 homeless counted in Cass
  2. Life on streets takes toll
  3. Barn Swallow meets Feb. 4
  4. Reaction to State of the Union
  5. Juvenile charged in homicide
  6. Niles’ Mann, 20, seeks House
  7. Pancake breakfast Saturday
  8. Eggstravaganza March 31
  9. Sonar for the sheriff
  10. Transit merger discussed
  11. Chili cookers fired up
  12. SMC trims dance, theater
  13. Roetzel faces 46 counts
  14. Vint charged in shooting
  15. Songwriter rocks Kincheloe
  16. Gas prices ease up
  17. Road mill on ballot Feb. 28
  18. Ice sponsors announced
  19. Jan. 24 police log
  20. Drunk boating bill clears panel
  21. Berrien fair beef due Feb. 1
  22. Berrien Relay registering
  23. Valentines for veterans
  24. Ice age leads off lectures

Sports

Area’s best wrestlers gathering

Area’s best wrestlers gathering

There has been a change to the annual Berrien County Wrestling Invitational. Read more

  1. Rangers upset bid comes up short
  2. Leader launches NASCAR contest
  3. Dowagiac grapplers drop pair

College Sports

Irish hire Hiestand as offensive line coach

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – A 29-year coaching veteran, Harry Hiestand has joined the University of Notre Dame football coaching staff as offensive line coach and ... Read more

Paterno dead at 85

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Nearly 24 hours after the rumors of his death were found to be false, Joe Paterno lost his two-month battle with ... Read more

Opinion

Did Dowagiac ever have an organ grinder?

Here is a memory of the past,  sitting on top of our big curved china cabinet that was given to my mother years ago from ... Read more

20,000 jobs take on a life of their own

Twenty thousand jobs. Or, in Congressman Fred Upton’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, “tens of thousands” of jobs lost ... Read more

Letters to the Editor

Milnot cans became balls, skates

To Cardinal Charlie: Your recent article in the Dowagiac Daily News where you mentioned Milnot and the can which you used for games in the ... Read more

SMC dance cuts lamented

To the editor: My name is Antonette Green and I am a student at Southwestern Michigan College (SMC).  I am enrolled in the Dance Education ... Read more

Special Section

Local Government

Road Commission has three-year contract

CASSOPOLIS—A new three-year contract between the Cass County Road Commission and Teamsters Local Union 214 was signed early in January and replaces a contract that ... Read more

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Direct Marketing sales

Do you want to work in a fun and fast-paced environment with unlimited earning potential? Do ... Read more

Hot Issues

Meth a rural drug

Policing authorities agree that methamphetamine is the drug of choice in rural areas. And Southwest Michigan is decidedly rural, but there are differences from one ... Read more

Off The Water

Healthy variety for family meals

“Kids who grow up on farms, who have gardens and plant seeds, nurturing them into plants ... Read more