In Calhoun County, where farmland meets community pride, Jordan and Lauren Mullins are quietly redefining what it means to be local producers. As first-generation farmers with a brand-new family and a ...

Two time-capsules-in-one were found recently by construction workers in the courtyard at the Eaton Rapids High School. Workers found a large steel box, measuring 16” x 16”, that had been placed there ...

Patrick McNutt is a well-known resident of Eaton Rapids. He’s always busy, is very social, and zips around town in his bright yellow power wheelchair. He grew up in Jackson and graduated from Jackson ...

There have always been bad people in our society, and always will be, even in small-town America. Dimondale was the setting, 130 years ago, of a brutal murder of a child. It was deemed so heinous that ...

Many in Eaton Rapids know her as Raven Rawson, Program Coordinator for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. But to her growing audience on YouTube and Facebook, she is “Ranger Raven, the Island ...

Weather is commonly joked as the conversation topic for when there is no topic. On an awkward first date, one might ask what his or her date thought of the weather they were having. Or in a lull in ...

I still remember several years ago, likely when I was a senior in high school, driving through Eaton Rapids with a couple of friends and seeing Main Street lined with Airstream trailers. Mostly to ...

A fire fighter’s first duty is to answer every call with skill, efficiency, and speed. The equipment that firefighters use can make a difference in the fire they are battling and in their own personal ...

The remains of Ensign Frances Charles Flaherty will be returned to his hometown of Charlotte on August 21, 2021. Flaherty was killed at Pearl Harbor within the first minutes of the December 7, 1941, ...

(Photo by Deb Malewski – The library staff pictured left to right: Bryonna Barton, Director; Jeremy Leik, Technology Coordinator; Emmy Datema, Youth Services Librarian; Teresa Baldwin, Assistant ...

On the first real cold day in Charlotte in several weeks, community members filled Peter’s Circle in downtown Charlotte Thursday, Jan. 26 to get their first glimpse of Charlotte’s first piece of ...

Two Eaton County men were honored Tuesday, July 11 for their longtime dedication to youth at the Eaton County Fair. Max Simpson and Roger Harris were each presented with the 2017 Emerald Award during ...