Keep Your Voice Down: Maxwell Knauer
Watershed Voice Staff Writer Maxwell Knauer joins Keep Your Voice Down hosts Doug Sears Jr. and Alek Haak-Frost for what might just be the most chaotic conversation in KYVD history.
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Watershed Voice’s Summer Fundraising Drive starts today
Donate today or any time in the next two weeks (August 4 through August 18) to help us reach our summer fundraising goal of $5,000. Whether it's a one-time donation or a monthly contribution, your support can make a difference.
Keep Your Voice Down: Abdul El-Sayed
The former Rhodes Scholar and Michigan gubernatorial candidate fields questions about civil liberties, affordable housing, Medicare for All, and automation's impact on the economy. Abdul El-Sayed is running for Michigan's soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Gary Peters, who is not seeking reelection in 2026.
Keep Your Voice Down: Artist Showcase lineup drop
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. reveal the lineup for the fifth annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase, which will take place later this month at The Huss Project in Three Rivers. The duo also explores the role of AI in content creation and journalism, what is lost in the over reliance of such technology, and what society stands to gain by re-embracing human creativity and connection.
Keep Your Voice Down: Three Rivers Pride Preview
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Three Rivers Pride Board Secretary Lexi Jacobs, President Chuck Lepinski, and Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Apwisch to preview the third annual Three Rivers Pride Festival.
Constantine’s Harvey House to open Wednesday with ‘open hearts and steady hands’ following Saturday shooting
Two gunshot victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries, authorities say, while a third was listed in critical condition. A fourth individual broke a leg after jumping from a second-story deck in an attempt to escape the gunfire.
Help us celebrate five years of Watershed Voice this month
Please consider starting a monthly donation of $5 or more as we celebrate our fifth anniversary. And if you get a chance, join our staff and board of directors at Useless Creatures this Saturday, April 5 from 4-6 p.m. in downtown Three Rivers to commemorate this important milestone.
Severe storm causes power outages, property damage in St. Joseph County
A National Weather Service damage assessment on Monday confirmed that the storm was not a tornado but rather a “straight-line wind” event.
Keep Your Voice Down: Watershed Voice — An oral history
In honor of the news organization's upcoming five-year anniversary, Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Deborah Haak-Frost to provide an oral history of Watershed Voice's inception and the months and years that followed. Join us as we recall the trying and triumphant times of your favorite award-winning nonprofit news magazine.
Keep Your Voice Down: Lucky Fultz
Three Rivers singer-songwriter Lucky Fultz details his musical influences and methodology, Tupac gets praise, Drake gets all the smoke, and male vulnerability is celebrated.
