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Battle Creek, MI 49001

The View Newspaper Group Battle Creek Shopper News strives to remain independent, objective & profitable while passing along a variety of news & sports from YOUR community in our FREE paper via the U.S. Send to [email protected]

Executive Editor:
Shelly Kehrle-Sulser - [email protected]

Sports/Assistant Editor:
Will Kowalski - [email protected]

Copy E

ditor/Obituaries:
Ann Pulsipher - [email protected]

Delivery:
Sue Snyder - [email protected]

Front Desk Supservisor:
Eric Thompson - [email protected]

Advertising deadline is 4:30 p.m. Tuesday for Thursday publication. Send to [email protected]

Sales reps:

Cheryl Johnson - [email protected]

Sue Camburn - [email protected]

Trisha Koning - [email protected]

12/06/2024

Santa and Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, one of Santa’s Elves, The Grinch and Sugar Bear are inviting kids and adults down to Santa’s Village at the Post plant, 275 Cliff St. to write and drop off their letters to Santa and get a box of cereal.
They will be out there tonight until 7 p.m. and again Saturday from 2-7 p.m.
They will also be out there Friday and Saturday, Dec. 13-14 and Dec. 20-21 from 2-7 p.m.

11/28/2024

Wishing you a joyful Thanksgiving filled with warmth and cherished moments with friends and loved ones.

11/25/2024

Some images from Saturday night’s Battle Creek Christmas Parade. Photos by John Hendler.

11/23/2024

The Harper Creek volleyball team saw its memorable season come to an end Friday evening at Kellogg Arena following a four-set loss to Detroit Country Day in the Div. 2 state semifinal.
Look for the story and more photos in the next edition of the Shopper News. Here are some images from Friday evening.
Photos by John Hendler.

11/20/2024

The postseason run by the Lakeview Spartans ended Tuesday in the MHSAA Division 1 state quarterfinal with a straight sets loss to Fenton at Lansing Eastern’s Don Johnson Fieldhouse.
Fenton won by scores of 25-19, 25-23 and 25-23.
Lakeview and its eight seniors end a 2024 season in which they were underdogs from the start to finish with a record of 44-8.
Fenton will play in the state semifinal at Kellogg Arena on Thursday taking on Rockford at 6:30 p.m.

11/20/2024

Harper Creek volleyball is final four bound after beating Grand Rapids South Christian 3-1. Harper Creek will play Detroit Country Day in the Div. 2 state semifinal Friday evening at Kellogg Arena at 6:30 pm.

11/15/2024

Battle Creek Lakeview captured a rare regional volleyball championship by outscoring SMAC foe Portage Northern 25-19, 25-15, 22-25, 25-19 in the MHSAA Division 1 Regional Final at Thornapple Kellogg High School in Middleville Thursday. The Spartans will head to the Don Johnson Fieldhouse in Lansing to face Fenton in the state quarterfinals Tuesday, Nov. 19.

Lakeview hadn’t won a district title since 2013 before back-to-back titles in 2021 and 2022, but then fell in its opening match of the 2023 postseason.

That wasn’t the plan, and winning Thursday didn’t go quite as planned either. All of a sudden a team powered largely by eight seniors had four-year varsity senior Anya Rankin, senior all-state hitter Livi Overbeek and their teammates looking to fire attacks down on sets put up by junior Madeleine Thawnghmung. Thwanghmung, a setter for her club team and on the Lakeview JV the past two seasons, was suddenly thrust onto the court when senior setter Caitlyn Miller was injured chasing a ball into the Lakeview student-section midway through the opening set against the Huskies.

Lakeview barely missed a beat and now the Spartans are one win from playing at Kellogg Arena in the state semifinals. The Spartans won a state championship in Class B in 1982 and finished as the state runner-up in 1984, but haven’t been to the state’s volleyball final four since it made its regular home in Kellogg Arena beginning in the fall of 2007.

Read more in the Nov. 21 edition of the Battle Creek Shopper.

11/15/2024

The Harper Creek High School volleyball team won its Division 2 regional final this evening, defeating Three Rivers in straight sets by scores of 26-24, 25-6 and 26-16. The win sends the Beavers into the state quarterfinal match on Tuesday, November 19 at Loy Norrix High School at 7 pm in Kalamazoo against either Grand Rapids Christian or Grand Rapids South Christian.

11/13/2024

3rd-ranked Harper Creek to host Div. 2 volleyball regional final on Thursday

After a slow start in its regional semifinal which saw the team drop the first set versus Niles on Tuesday evening, the Harper Creek High School volleyball team came back to win three straight to advance to Thursday evening’s Div. 2 regional final where they will host Three Rivers at 6 p.m.
After Niles took the first set 25-21, the Beavers won the next three by scores of 25-19, 25-13 and 25-17.
Cassidy Pratley led the team with 22 kills, while Camille Robinson had 15. Ella Chantrenne had 12 kills and Krista Brannen had eight kills. Taegen Anderson led Harper Creek with 49 assists. Addison Woodruff had 27 digs and Chantrenne had 19 digs.
Photos by John Hendler.

11/13/2024

Lakeview advances to volleyball regional final

The Battle Creek Lakeview varsity volleyball team took a 26-24, 25-17, 22-25, 25-17 win over Byron Center in the MHSAA Division 1 Regional Semifinal at Thornapple Kellogg High School in Middleville Tuesday. The win puts the Spartans in the regional final back in Middleville Thursday versus Portage Northern.
Lakeview is a team primarily powered by eight seniors. The Spartans won back-to-back district championships in 2021 and 2022, but the 2023 team was taken down by Harper Creek in the first match of the postseason.
Senior setter Caitlyn Miller didn’t even get to play in that one postseason match last fall, as she missed her whole junior season with an injury. She said she learned what she could from the new perspective of the court from the sideline last year. She did a great job of spreading the Spartan attack around Tuesday night in her team’s win over the Byron Center Bulldogs - a team that entered the state postseason listed among the honorable mention ranks in Division 1. Lakeview had three girls with double-digit kills.
Miller had 41 assists in the victory. Senior Anya Rankin led the Spartans in kills with 13 and had 18 digs. Senior Livi Overbeek had 11 kills and 14 digs, and senior Carson Howard had ten kills.
The Spartans had to have some variety in the attack to keep the ball away from the Bulldogs’ stand-out sophomore libero Mallory Johnson, and Howard on the block and senior libero Camille Oxley hustling all across the court were key in limiting the big swings of Bulldog senior outside hitter Reese Lowe as much as possible. Oxley finished with a team-high 21 digs.
Photos and story by Brett Bremer.

11/04/2024

This Friday, Nov. 8

10/18/2024

Thank you, Shelly, from all of J-Ad Graphics, Inc. on your "storied" career! We wish you all the best as you turn the page. Watch for her on Nov. 23 as she rides in the Harper Creek Optimist Club Christmas Parade as Grand Marshal!

"I will cherish the memories of everyone I've met and worked with in Calhoun County and beyond forever in my heart. Thank you all for all of your trust, patience and understanding. Your stories are precious and they continue to deserve recogniton. I wish you all the best." -Shelly

10/17/2024

The Oct. 17, 2024, Battle Creek Shopper News:

10/16/2024

Congratulations to Calhoun County Geographic Information Services (GIS) Manager Brent Thelen, recipient of the 2024 GIS Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award, presented at this year's MiCAMP Conference!

This award honors Brent's leadership and contributions to advancing GIS technology. His work has driven successful initiatives in Calhoun County and beyond, demonstrating his lasting impact and expertise in the field.

10/15/2024

Happy 100th birthday today to the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. Read all about it in the Shopper News.

10/15/2024

The end of an era

As of last week, Asst./Sports Editor Will Kowalski has retired from the Shopper News and Executive Editor Shelly Kehrle-Sulser is also leaving The View Newspaper Group, a division of JAMS Media, LLC, at the end of this week.

Thank you for trusting us with your stories for so many years. Each of us are die-hard journalists and have so enjoyed covering these vibrant, diverse communities for J-Ad Graphics.

Interim staff will handle news and sports starting Monday, Oct. 21. You can still email your news items to [email protected].

10/12/2024

Your current FREE Shopper News: (Note - the editor adavertantly took credit for the photo of James McCloughan on the front page. The photo was provided.)

10/11/2024

"This year's Fire Prevention Week™ (FPW ™ ) October 6-12, 'Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!™' strives to educate everyone about the importance of having working smoke alarms in the home. Whether you are teaching in a classroom, community or in your own home." This week, the BCFD has been providing fire prevention education along with other depts. Read more in the current and in next week's Shopper News.

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Today, category grand prize winner of $10,000, Rock N Roll Creamery, owned by Kiyona Garrett, demonstrates their award-winning craft at Food Prize in downtown Battle Creek. Watch for more in next week's Shopper News!

Also happening this Saturday night: Fantastic Beats (& where to find them) concert by the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra featuring Jordan Hamilton who joined a children's concert this morning at W.K. Kellogg Auditorium.

A Mexico regional dance was one of several performances at the downtown Battle Creek kickoff fiesta to Hispanic Heritage Month:

Chanting "Protect the right to read" and "ban liars and crooks, not books", the RISE Corp. Children's Defense Fund Freedom School joined a national Day of Action today to protect their freedom to read any book and protested the banning of books. Willard Library has not banned any books, said RISE Director Damon Brown, adding that it was only a symbolic location for the action. See more in a future Shopper News.

Starting tomorrow night at Harper Creek High School, 7 p.m.

The maple sap has been pouring revenue into Athens youth programs for 75 years! Read all about it in the current Shopper News:

The inaugural Next Level Podium Challenge this weekend at Kellogg Arena is organized for youths and for college level competition by Branch Gymnastics of Battle Creek. Read more about it in the next Shopper News. Here, WMU's team rehearses its floor routine on the elevated platform, one of only a few privately owned such platforms in the U.S.