Athens News

There was a time when school officials looked into the future and saw nothing but growth.

A local school district already cut to the bone is looking to remove a piece of its skeleton.

If he builds it, Mark Doubleday hopes, they will come. The Athens village councilman has closed a deal on a $27,000 building on the village's main drag.

Two area events are planned Wednesday to mark Veterans Day 2009. The first will begin at 11 a.m. at the Fort Custer National Cemetery at 15501 Dickman Road in Augusta, just west of Battle Creek.

Community Unlimited's eleventh annual Haunted Hallways was host to over 1200 people over the course of the two hours it was open this Halloween.

Marshall will host its first H1N1 vaccination clinic Saturday after Tuesday's clinic in Athens.

Looking for a chance to catch up on some scrapbooking? Need to finish your holiday craft projects? Here's the perfect opportunity! The Arts & Culture Committee of the Athens Area Community Foundation will hold its second annual Scrapbook Crop on Saturday, November 21.

The Michigan Association of Chamber Professionals recognized Monica Anderson, president of the Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce, with the 2009 Michigan Chamber Professional designation at its Leadership Conference & Annual Meeting Oct.

The Spencer Family Funeral Home in Athens will host its eighth annual Veteran's Day Service and Candlelight Ceremony at 7 p.m. Nov.

A controversial natural gas pipeline compressor station is up and running in Athens Township and may cause less of a stir than the public ruckus that came before construction.

Top Chin-Burmese singers will perform in a concert at 7 p.m. today to help raise money for the Chin people in Burma, officially called Myanmar, who are currently experiencing a food crisis.

The Kellogg Community College volleyball squad improved to 6-7 in the MCCAA and to 9-19 overall on Thursday when it defeated host Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor 25-19, 24-26, 25-27, 25-18, 15-8. For the Bruins, Katie Taft had 23 kills and 10 digs; Alyssa Tone had 13 kills; Kelsey Bivens had 50 assists; Alyssa Quist had five aces; Kelsea ...

Beebe and Debbie at the Lakeview Vet Clinic for their genuine and compassionate care of Dottie Kay Macaulay, my "god dog." They are truly amazing.

Laura Gilbertson and her very talented choirs. The Marshall Singers, Belle Canto and Redhawk Chorale gave an awesome pops concert on Sunday.

A troublesome ditch in Athens Township could come under Calhoun County's jurisdiction for maintenance and flood prevention, an effort residents will be asked to pay for.

A Bellevue Township man was charged for the work of 13 firefighters last July, though only two firefighters showed up to check on a brush fire he'd already doused.

The last municipality to appoint a member to the FireKeepers Casino Local Revenue Sharing Board is taking its time.

I'm getting tired of this two steps forward, one step back nonsense. Last week, I penned another wasteful screed about the optimism I felt watching music growing like a slow-moving good infection in this city.

Athens knocked off two community development birds with one stone Tuesday when it launched a new entrepreneurship program at Athens Middle School.

The Athens Village Council on Tuesday took two steps forward on its community development efforts, including approving a contract for police services in the village.