AKRON — Roofing is nearly complete over all the parts of Tippecanoe Valley High School’s construction project.

BURKET – The town of Burket will not get all of the 2024 budget it asked for as the town had an illegal meeting when it came to the public hearing for the budget.

Fellowship Missions will be closing soon on the purchase of the building at 123 S. Buffalo St., Warsaw, for a recovery hub, and Thursday night the Kosciusko County Council approved additional appropriations from the county’s opioid grant to help them pay for the building.

Louis Dreyfus Co. is seeking tax abatements again from the county, this time for a project at its Claypool plant totaling $59 million.

PIERCETON – Jan. 18 is the date for the free community dinner in Pierceton.

Dr. Alexandru Tanase, board-certified pediatrician, will lead a discussion on the topic Autism: Moving from Stigma to Appreciation of True Potential.

The staff at Grossnickle Eye Center recently donated $1,900 to benefit area homeless shelters in honor of the Grossnickle Eye Center doctors at Christmas.

To help inmates become a productive part of the community after they’re released from jail - and to help keep them from returning to jail - Kosciusko County Sheriff Jim Smith is looking to launch the Community Recovery Program (CRP) that will utilize the resources of many community partners.

The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Merit Board reviewed statistics for 2023 and discussed a new program in the Kosciusko County Jail during a meeting Thursday.

SILVER LAKE – At Wednesday night's meeting, the Silver Lake Town Council agreed to purchase five years of liability insurance for Silver Lake Days to help the festival committee with costs.

WINONA LAKE - Obadiah Clemans bought Three Crowns Coffee, 941 N. Detroit St., Warsaw, in 2022 from the previous owner.

Alex Hall, vice president of programs at the Kosciusko County Community Foundation, was selected as a member of the 2024 class of the Mutz Philanthropic Leadership Institute.

The Warsaw Rotary Club held its 58th Annual Rotary Salvation Army Day on Dec. 21 with a total of $56,000 collected that day.

Forte Residential and Home Health Care Services, 120 S. Lake St., Warsaw, was awarded a $5,000 Main Street Warsaw facade grant Wednesday.

Tickets for the 78th annual Mizpah Shrine Circus are on sale at mizpahshrinecircus.com and start at $16.

INDIANAPOLIS — Local health departments have received enhanced funding for the first time as a result of the Health First Indiana (HFI) initiative.

On Jan. 2, Kosciusko Leadership Academy cadets visited Maple Leaf Farms World Headquarters where Olivia Tucker Ruddell, director of marketing for Maple Leaf Farms, and Mindy Truex, president of Creighton Brothers and Crystal Lake LLC, presented on agri-business in Kosciusko County.

SYRACUSE – Chautauqua-Wawasee’s annual fundraising campaign concluded Monday.

Which lane does a driver get into when they want to turn right to go to the car wash or grocery store from southbound Husky Trail? Which lane to turn right from Husky Trail onto Parker Street?

Looking for solutions to the traffic problems at the intersections of Pope and Detroit and Detroit and Prairie streets, Warsaw City Planner Justin Taylor presented one concept to the Traffic Commission Wednesday.

Purdue Extension Kosciusko County health and human science educator Shannon Shepherd will present Staying Scam Safe at Kosciusko County Fairgrounds, Home and Family Arts Building, 1400 E. Smith St., Warsaw, on March 27 from noon until 1 p.m.

ETNA GREEN — The Etna Green Town Council tabled further discussion on renewing the town's annual agreement with the Kosciusko Economic Development Corporation during its Tuesday meeting.

Warsaw Community Schools is seeing an increase in students participating in free or reduced lunches.

The future of the instrument landing system (ILS) at the Warsaw Municipal Airport is under discussion.

SYRACUSE - January is the time for the annual school board reorganization that includes election of officers, school board meeting times and more.