The Liberty Bell has a new home, and it is as powerful and dramatic as the Bell itself. Throughout the expansive, light-filled Center, larger-than-life historic documents and graphic images explore ...

When the sound of falling pins first echoed down the narrow lanes of Hastings Recreation in 1940, few could have imagined that the game of 10 pins would become such a lasting part of local life. For ...

COVID cases have continued to tick up in Barry County, where 123 active cases were reported on Tuesday. One additional death also was reported, for a total of 90 COVID-related deaths since the ...

The Hastings Public Library, as we know it today, stands as a landmark of cultural and educational growth in Barry County. The story begins in 1896, when the Women’s Club of Hastings assembled a small ...

When the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Hastings was drawn in 1884, it revealed something most res­idents today would never guess: not one, but two roller-skating rinks operating in the city’s downtown ...

The upcoming meeting schedule at the Page Memorial Building in the Vil­lage of Lake Odessa just got a little bit busier, with the recent scheduling of a “Committee of the Whole” meeting of the Lake ...

The staff at FoxView, an event center in Nashville, is offering people an opportunity to smash things, grab dinner to go, or watch a car drop at the stroke of midnight as perfect ways to welcome in a ...

When we walk among the stones of Riverside Cemetery today—15,957 plots laid out across rolling ground along W. State Road, with 8,502 currently occu­pied— we are stepping into more than a ...

In June, HASS passed its 2025-26 budget. Much of the budget is still uncertain, waiting on final numbers from the state to come in. The district’s general fund expenditures are pro­jected at ...

Barry County had a two point lead heading into the final event of the evening against the Ottawa Hills Bengals Thursday at the Community Education and Recreation Center in Hastings, but couldn't quite ...