Alek Haak-Frost

2 months ago | watershedvoice.com | Alek Haak-Frost

Watershed Voice is celebrating five years of community supported, solutions oriented journalism this month. Since launching on April 8, 2020, Watershed has been nominated for three nationals awards, winning two in 2022, has published over 3,000 articles, and provided a reliable source of local news to residents of St. Joseph, Cass, and Kalamazoo counties. Last year we removed our paywall in an effort to make the news accessible to everyone, no longer requiring a subscription to access our work.

2 months ago | watershedvoice.com | Najifa Farhat |Alek Haak-Frost

A powerful thunderstorm swept through St. Joseph County on Sunday evening, bringing widespread power outages, downed trees, and property damage across the region. According to the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office, Sturgis and Three Rivers were the hardest-hit areas. The National Weather Service (NWS) reported that the storm, fueled by intense winds, caused “widespread” damage across southern Michigan and northern Indiana, with gusts reaching 60 to 80 mph.

2 months ago | watershedvoice.com | Alek Haak-Frost

Watershed Voice launched in 2020 only weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic had much of the country sheltering in place, and a short time before protests, the size and frequency of which the country hadn’t seen since the Civil Rights movement, dominated the headlines. It was a tumultuous time in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the worst time to start a new business outside of the Great Depression. Yet somehow, five years later, Watershed Voice is still here.

Feb 20, 2025 | watershedvoice.com | Alek Haak-Frost

This week Three Rivers singer-songwriter Lucky Fultz spoke with Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. about his upcoming album “Riverside Drive,” which is set to drop on February 28. Fultz details his musical influences and methodology, Tupac gets praise, Drake gets all the smoke, and male vulnerability is celebrated. The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Normal” by Lucky Fultz.

Feb 13, 2025 | secondwavemedia.com | Alek Haak-Frost |Frank Stanko

THREE RIVERS, MI — Affordable housing is on the lips of seemingly everyone nowadays. But what does affordable housing actually look like in St. Joseph County? Watershed Voice looked at the question from multiple points of view, including from that of a developer, city and county officials, and homeowners themselves. What is affordable housing? The most common definition of affordable housing comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).