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The Van Buren/Cass District Health Department has announced the hiring of a new county health officer. Danielle Persky will replace the retiring Jeff Elliott. He has served in that role for 38 years and will serve in an advisory capacity through the end of the year. Persky is previously the deputy health officer and director of health promotion at the Van Buren/Cass District Health Department. The department says through her efforts, it has expanded its outreach by working with multiple service organizations, school administrators, county leaders, and local businesses. In 2019 she was recogni...

Starting next Wednesday for the summer will be the Benton Harbor Farmers Market. Berrien County Health Department spokesperson Gillian Conrad tells WSJM News

Meet the Author event coming to the Children's Trail June 5 Cheboygan Daily Tribune CHEBOYGAN — Stacie Sheldon, an Anishinaabe-Ojibwe author who is originally from Cheboygan, will be presenting her book,“Bebikaan-ezhiwebiziwinan Nimkii: The Adventures of Nimkii,” at the Children's Trail in Major City Park on June 5. This will be the first ever summer event hosted at the Children's Trail, as well as the first ever Meet the Author event. It will be a family friendly open house format, going from noon until 3 p.m. A similar event — Meet the Artist — will take place at the trail in Augu...

Library scavenger hunt provides fun for Ionia County families Ionia Sentinel-Standard IONIA — Young children and their families can explore Ionia County through a scavenger hunt as part of an educational campaign.  The Ionia County Great Start Collaborative and each of the county’s seven libraries have teamed up to present the Talking is Teaching spring scavenger hunt. It started April 1 and wraps up May 27. Children ages six years old and younger and their families can visit a library in Ionia County to pick up a sheet for the scavenger hunt, said Holly Blastic, Ionia County G...