Columns
Community celebrating an award-winning institution
On Friday, Oct. 30, beginning at 1 p.m., the Niles District Library will be celebrating a major milestone ...
Columns
We must learn how to wait
Waiting is never easy. Life is filled with waiting. We wait in lines, we wait in traffic, and ...
Columns
Joys of children’s birthday parties
This past weekend, my oldest grandson turned five. What a wonderful age. He already knows just about everything ...
Columns
Honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is a campaign to spread awareness on the disease. We have ...
Leader Columnists
Partnerships are fuel to drive us forward
Author and award-winning social medial consultant Simon Mainwaring may not be a household name but his ideas on ...
Leader Columnists
The sun will come out
This time of year, I usually have theater on the brain. Nearly a decade of fall musicals at ...
Editorials
Customers, businesses make great team in fight against breast cancer
While the month of October is traditionally associated with the rusty red of falling leaves or the mellow ...
Editorials
Keeping kids safe during Halloween
With only a week away from the big night of tricks and treats, families across the area ...
Editorials
Community helps Fernwood back on track
Southwest Michigan lost a treasured asset Wednesday when a fire essentially destroyed the railway garden at Fernwood, but ...
Editorials
Time to get a flu shot
Most people would agree that getting a flu vaccine is a good idea. It is especially beneficial — ...
Letters to the Editor
School board: Vote ‘yes, yes’ Nov. 3
The following letter was written by me, on behalf of the Dowagiac Union Schools Board of Education. All ...
Columns
Ask Trooper Rob: Can I legally carry pepper spray?
“Someone saw me with a small can of pepper spray on my key ring. They then told me ...
Letters to the Editor
Where are the 3D movies?
As have many southwest Michigan residents, I have enjoyed attending movies at Wonderland Cinema/Moore Theaters in Niles.
Columns
Tele-town hall meeting enables 2,258 residents to share priorities
More than 2,200 southwest Michigan residents were able to share with me their priorities for the future during ...
Leader Columnists
Force still strong 38 years later
For me, and truly an entire generation growing up in the late 1970s and 1980s, “Star Wars” has ...
Leader Columnists
When the world changes color
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
Columns
Thant ‘syncing’ feeling
I loved that old cell phone because it was so unreliable — I could ignore phone calls and ...
Editorials
Lawsuit proves city is dedicated to taxpayers
Earlier this week, news broke about a lawsuit the city of Dowagiac has filed against Ken Allen, the ...
Editorials
Study highlights risks of staying ‘connected’ while driving
Teenagers today love their phones.
Editorials
Enthusiasm for bridge work shows great dedication to city
When local residents found out about the Main Street Bridge demolition and reconstruction two years ago, there were ...
Editorials
Supporting our local history
The photos and artifacts that help tell the history (thus far) of the Grand Old City will be ...
Editorials
Fight or flight
The fight or flight response, for those who do not know, refers to a physiological reaction that occurs ...
Editorials
Support student theater
This weekend, students at Southwestern Michigan College will take the stage to perform the dramatic thriller, “Wait Until ...
Letters to the Editor
Thanks to all for the Warbirds fly-in
I’d like to express a note of gratitude from myself and perhaps all the folks who were able ...
Letters to the Editor
World needs improved customer service
I’m a person who retired from the business world where the words “Outstanding Customer Service” were our mantra. ...
