Riverfest 2026 : Live Music / Carnival Rides / free parking - - Tonight til Sunday Aug. 2 at Niles MICHIGAN, 49120

TODAY and

SUNDAY

August 1, 2026 in downtown

NILES, MICHIGAN

(S. Berrien County, SW Michigan)

Sunday August 2, 2026

admission is FREE

(Sunday activities include

Community Worship led by Spero House)

Riverfront Amphitheater

Riverview Park

Niles, MI 49120

nilesriverfest.com/

Local bands:

Work in Progress

The Erly

Grateful Living

Jeff Whitaker

FRIDAY acts includes Erudite, Seventh Generation Roots, Tribe Reggae Show,

Shock Roxy

SATURDAY Aug. 1, 2026

2 p.m. Oscos

Aaron Conley

Hey Annie

St. Joe Jack

Fillmore's Ladder (Grateful Dead tribute band)

Sunday, August 2, 2026

11 a.m. Community Worship service at Amphitheater

Oblates of Blues

Ron Hamrick

The Santana Project (5 p.m.) -- closes out the free entertainment

Investigators in Tucson (Pima County, AZ) ask the public for help

 Consider the writing

style of the ransom

notes -- --

consider whether you know

of any men who at the

Jan. 31 - early Feb. 2026

had changed their mood

and appearance /

had unexplained injuries /

had left the region at the

time Nancy Guthrie was 

abducted.

Pima County AZ Sheriff's dept. independent of Kash Patel's FBI releases two ransom notes

First note demanded

$4 million saying

If payment is not received

by the last deadline of Monday

the 9th at 5 p.m., she will be

killed; your mother is aware of

this and her life is in your hands

_________________________

Second note

sent before the Feb. 9 deadline

. . .we did not fully grasp the

seriousness (of her physical situation)

we never intended to hurt her,

that was not her intention.

She perished shortly after she was taken.

We believe it was heart-related.

She is buried in nature now.  Nothing

you could have done could have changed

the outcome.  We want your family

to know this and hope you all can

find peace.  We are truly sorry.

Six months ago -- Nancy Guthrie of Tucson kidnapping unsolved -- 84-yr.-old mother/grandmother -- UPDATE Aug. 1, 2026

August 1 -- media given Kidnappers' ransom notes (family

faces dire_ and bizarre development: the group kidnapping the

84-year-old may not have wanted her to die from deprivation

of her heart medicine) 

NYTimes.com/2026/07/31/

us/savannah-nancy-guthrie-

ransom-note.html

Tucson, AZ

Jan. 31, 2026

during the first days/weeks/month

FBI director on a "party hearty/hard"

binge with U.S. Olympic Hockey

in Italy Winter Olympics after

winning GOLD medal over Silver

medalists from Canada. . .

Russia's missiles kill 9 in Kyiv (Ukraine's capital) hours after Trump backs off pledge to supply Patriot Interceptors

 NY Times

breaking news July 31 - Aug. 1, 2026

Nine dead, 30 injured in a barrage of Russian

missiles

________________________________

Trump fidgeted and backed off pledge

to Zelenskyy earlier at the Graham Funeral

(National Cathedral) to let Ukraine

manufacture PATRIOT missiles

REPORTING

Constant Meheut -- assigned to KYIV, Ukraine

Beatles Tribute Band Concert at the Acorn, Three Oaks - Friday August 7, 2026 [ in six days ]

 pre-announcement

at Harbor Country dot-org

[ New Buffalo, S. Berrien

County, SW Michigan region ]

Phil Angotti + Friends

play the Beatles Catalog

Friday August 7, 2026

General Admission $30

Reserved Seating $60

8:00 p.m. Eastern until

likely 11 p.m.

The Acorn is

107 Generations Drive,

Three Oaks, MI

(Berrien County)

Primary ballot on August 4, 2026 (MICHIGAN) -- polls open 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Races for

Governor

U.S. Senate

U.S. Representative (5th Congressional)

Michigan (Lansing) St. Senate

Michigan (Lansing) St. House

Berrien County Judge

Niles City Council Wards 1,2,3,4

The "fix" on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pools [ American Flag Blue ]

 July 31 - Aug. 1

Todd Blanche's Dept. of

Justice has admitted that

the Trump-Vance "fix" on

a District of Columbia

institutional landmark was

hasty and botched. . .

National Watermelon Day 2026

 Monday August 3, 2026

annual honoring of

summer's favorite juicy 

Fruit!

almanac.com/fact/

national-watermelon-day