Plainwell

Plainwell city approved a 2018-19 budget which will slightly decrease its fund balance from 20 percent to 19 percent.

A Plainwell man who was sent to prison for abusing his 2-month-old daughter has been denied his request for a new trial but was given the chance to have a new sentencing hearing.

Further details in court records show how police and federal agents zeroed in on the man who the say robbed the PNC Bank in Plainwell Thursday, June 14.

Plainwell school board members heard from staff and volunteers urging them to move the district’s Renaissance High School to the former Plainwell Community Center as soon as possible.

Plainwell school board members voted unanimously to appropriate $75,000 toward a school resource officer for the 2018-19 year.

Plainwell Community Schools intends to have a school resource officer on campus to begin school in the fall.

The Plainwell Parks and Trees Commission organized the planting and dedication of a redbud tree along the riverwalk behind Plainwell Auto in memory of longtime Plainwell resident Dale Harrington.

A man who was accused of shooting a Plainwell resident and leaving him lying in the street in Kalamazoo last year has been sent to prison.