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A scrap metal fire was extinguished without any injuries reported after about four hours Thursday once firefighters from seven departments came together with enough water to extinguish the large blaze. At approximately 12:38 p.m., firefighters from the Greenville Department of Public Safety responded to a report of smoke coming from Greenville Steel Inc. at 6632 SW Greenville Road (M-91).

I didn't realize that there are a lot of fish you can catch in Missouri that you're advised not to eat or at least limit the amount you intake. There are various reasons why, but I've accumulated a rather large list of finned creatures that may or may not be good for you in the Show Me State.

I didn't realize that there are a lot of fish you can catch in Missouri that you're advised not to eat or at least limit the amount you intake. There are various reasons why, but I've accumulated a rather large list of finned creatures that may or may not be good for you in the Show Me State.

Logging on Flat River opens up auspiciously. Friant & Cheney have about two hundred men now on the river and the number will receive additions so fast as they can be used. A channel through the ice was open to Langston on Monday, extensive sawing and the use of powder having achieved this result.

The Flat River Community Players are at it again with a laugh so hard your belly will ache, and you will have to wipe the happy tears off your face. Performances of “The Play That Goes Wrong” are set for 7 p.m. on April 21, 22, 28, 29 and at 2 p.m. on April 30 at the Greenville Area Recreation and Community Center, 900 E Kent Road, Greenville, Michigan. Tickets are available at the community center or online garcctickets.ludus.com/index.php.

The Daily News was honored with 37 awards for news, sports, design and advertising in the Michigan Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest, the results of which were was announced on Thursday. The Daily News received 21 awards for advertising and 16 awards for editorial work from 2021 and 2022, including second place for Class D Newspaper of the Year (the Daily News took first place in this category for seven years prior) and second place statewide for Daily Newspaper Excellence in...

When I lived there in the 1950s, Greenville appeared to be prosperous and hopping. When I went downtown, either walking with Cindy or driving with my mom, there were always lots of people walking around and shopping, and all the storefronts were occupied. There was the Greenville Furniture Co., which had interesting things in the basement like doll beds. Cindy and I each got a doll bed there. They were about ten inches long and had plastic gingham covers, one red and white and the other blue and...

The story of transportation improvements in the mid-1800s until World War I is a story of railroads. Routing of railroads made the difference between prosperity if a line went through a town or stagnation if the railroad bypassed it. By 1900 electrified lines offered a new option that lacked smoke or diesel emissions and offered rapid acceleration, fast braking, and the ability to change direction without turning a locomotive around.

Wild Ones, a nature-focused student organization at Duke, visited Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment to look for birds and my personal nemesis, the evening grosbeak.