CLAYPOOL – Bryon Wells was appointed Monday to the vacant Clay Township Advisory Board position, but he will not be on the ballot during the November general election.

While the Warsaw Common Council still has to vote on the proposed 2027 budgets presented to them on Monday, Aug. 3 and Aug. 17, council members praised the city department heads Monday after the last half of the budgets were presented.

On the first five-hour day Monday of the two days of budget hearings for county departments, the Kosciusko County Council cut $1 million from the Commissioners’ $6 million Economic Development Income Tax (EDIT) fund for infrastructure and major improvements.

County Council is the purse strings of county government, and at their meeting Monday for 2027 department budgets they were pulling on those strings to tighten budgets as much as they could.

Warsaw Redevelopment Commission on Monday approved a change order for Abonmarche for the Millworks streetscape.

CARES, along with community partners Fellowship Missions, Allendale Treatment, Bowen Health and the Kosciusko County LOSS (Local Outreach for Suicide Survivors) Team, will host Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at The Gathering Place, 123 S. Buffalo St., Warsaw.

As summer winds down, Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office is partnering with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) to increase patrols and conduct sobriety checkpoints as part of the annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over national enforcement campaign, supported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Anticipation is sky-high for Grace’s women’s soccer team as they approach the start of the 2026 campaign.

One driver is dead after a three semi-tractor-trailer collision Sunday night in Washington Township.

Memories were evoked and shared at Baker Boy’s Club/Baker Youth Club’s 100th birthday celebration on Saturday.

WASHINGTON - FEMA announced Saturday that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Indiana to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding beginning on Aug. 11, 2026, and continuing.

Two Illinois men were arrested Friday in Milford on warrants.

AKRON — Beaver Dam Community Church's Wheels on Fire-Cancer Crusaders' job from God "is to love, to help and to cherish one another," said Wheels on Fire member Terry Randall.

FORT WAYNE – Parkview Health has been named to the Forbes 2026 list of America’s Best Employers by State, ranking No. 29 out of 75 companies in Indiana.

Lake City Bank welcomed Mariana Reyes as vice president, community reinvestment officer.

FORT WAYNE – Four Parkview Hospitals were recently recognized for dedication to excellent stroke care through the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines program.

NORTH MANCHESTER – Manchester University's Center for Environmental Resilience and Social Engagement and Earth Charter Indiana will host the inaugural Regional Student Environmental Conference Sept. 28 at Manchester University's North Manchester campus.

Kyle Alger could have gone into any engineering field, but through an assortment of decisions, he chose civil engineering.

Kosciusko County Convention & Visitors Bureau (KCCVB) is inviting both residents and visitors to participate in two short community sentiment surveys designed to help shape the future of tourism in Kosciusko County.

An update to the Kosciusko County Council Thursday night from the Kosciusko County Trustee Association included a brief argument between a trustee and a councilman over the words “spending down” in an email the trustee previously sent out to the council.

The state provided the county with some funds in a Lane Mile Distribution, and Thursday the Kosciusko County Highway Department (KCHD) asked to spend those monies mostly for road material.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture announced the winners of the 2026 Indiana Agriculture Photo Contest.

WASHINGTON – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Scholarship Fund announced the recipients of its Class of 2026 scholarship awards, which includes Lindsay Petersen of Akron.

A fair share of the wage committee recommendations presented to the Kosciusko County Council at their meeting Thursday were related to requests from the Sheriff’s Office for 2027.

BURKET – Burket Town Council approved a resolution adopting internal control standards Thursday.