Bloomingdale News

Two people were sent to a local hospital following a Van Buren County house fire late Monday.

A 65-year-old man was killed early Tuesday in a house fire in northern Van Buren County, police said.

The engineering company locked in a dispute with two Van Buren County townships and a village over a sewer project is taking them to court.

The loss of transmission to two substations early Friday morning resulted in power outages for about 26-hundred Midwest Energy Cooperative customers in Van Buren County.

Preliminary discussions about closing South Haven's courthouse and consolidating court operations in Paw Paw is raising concerns in the lakeshore community.

Decatur Public Schools and Porter Township have joined other Van Burn County school districts and municipalities supporting a plan for a fiber optic Internet network in the county.

An argument between a chief of police and a county deputy earlier this year has ended with the chief pleading guilty to domestic assault.

Three Bangor men are facing charges in connection with the thefts of more than 20 signs from roads and businesses in Van Buren County, police said.

Bloomingdale's police chief has been suspended from his duties pending the outcome of an assault charge against him.

The police chief of a small Van Buren County community has been arrested following a domestic violence incident, the county sheriffa s office reports.

The Bloomingdale Police Chief has been arrested by the Allegan County Sheriff's Department.

More than two dozen communities in Southwest Michigan will pay tribute to veterans with events on Memorial Day.

A two-ton tank and trailer containing anhydrous ammonia, a common component in the manufacture of methamphetamine, was stolen Monday from a farm field in Van Buren County, police said.

The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners last week endorsed a plan by a local company for a $17 million fiber-optic, broadband-Internet project.

Some folks living in Van Buren County say that thieves are sucking the gas right out of their cars, and it's happening while they're parked right next to their homes.

Allegan Township could have its first township-owned park under a recreation plan adopted by the township board of trustees.

Kalamazoo Gazette Thursday March 19, 2009, 9:15 AM BLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP -- A jewelry box and a small kitchen appliance were stolen Wednesday during a home break-in in Van Buren County, police said.

BLOOMINGDALE -- The Bloomingdale Public Schools Board of Education may be deciding to get rid of the closed Grand Junction Elementary School on County Road 388.

A former Van Buren County magistrate who retired after his arrest for drunken driving pleaded guilty Monday to driving while impaired.

It is being sponsored by the area's Christian Fellowship Youth Group. 521-3615 or 628-2196. 7 p.m. Saturday.