The Three Rivers City Commission continued a contentious discussion over the sale of the former Carnegie Library building Tuesday.
“So what is the real problem? I think the real problem is that, in your eyes, us as Black people do not have the right to demand equality. How dare us? Who do we think we are to want an equal playing field?”
Lockport Township Assessor Dale Hutson explained the role of a Designated Assessor at a township Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday evening. His explanation came in response to recent concerns about the need for someone to fill the Designated Assessor position by several township trustees.
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners and the Three Rivers City Commission will both hold regular meetings as planned this evening, Tuesday, September 15. Both are accessible via the Zoom online meeting platform, which is also accessible by telephone.
In this week’s column, Aundrea Sayrie asks “When is a cult a cult?”
Watershed Voice reached out to a collection of parents and Three Rivers Superintendent Ron Moag for their thoughts and reactions to how the first week of school went amid the unique, new challenges of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the options put in place by Three Rivers Community Schools administrators to meet those challenges.
The Three Rivers Public Library announced Friday it will reopen at its new location on Monday, September 21.
Available for registration are four, 10-week-long accelerated online classes that begin October 5 and run through December 18. Students wishing to enroll in the courses should apply as soon as possible.
Students returning to classes at Glen Oaks this semester are likely to notice some visible changes to the campus after staff and contractors spent the summer working on completing improvements.
A new barbershop opened Thursday morning at Michigan and Main Streets in downtown Three Rivers.
At a meeting of the college’s Board of Trustees on Thursday, Vice President of Student Services Tonya Howden said enrollment is down. At 958 students, enrollment is down 12 percent from the same time last year.
In a Thursday press release, Glen Oaks Community College announced that it will be participating in a free tuition program unveiled concurrently by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners discussed funding assistance requests by local fire department for the purchase of new pagers at an Executive Committee meeting Wednesday morning.
The Three Rivers Lions Club’s ever-popular Ox Roast which normally takes place during the annual Three Rivers Water Festival in June, will instead occur in the form of a drive-through event in September at the Lions Club facility on Sixth Street.
Three Rivers Community Schools reopened to instruction for the academic year under its “Return to Learn” COVID-19 response plan Tuesday. Board of Education members heard updates on the reopening, pandemic planning documents, and bond-issue construction work at a Tuesday evening work session.
Circuit Court Judge Paul Stutesman issued a ruling Tuesday in a suit against the City of Three Rivers over a petition submitted this summer to place a marijuana ordinance on the November ballot. Stutesman ruled the petition, submitted by Jobs for Michigan Communities (JMC), does not conform to a state statute that dictates proper size and language.
Old Town Treasures on North Main Street is receiving a loan to help it recover from the shutdown and move forward with some rebranding efforts.
“In all of my contemplating about how to heal and foster positive change within a community, I have never once considered ‘code switching’ to be an obstacle.”