LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Soup & Pie Success

Editor, Times-Union: Thank you, Warsaw! What a wonderful community we live in! What a great feeling it is to see people lined up outside the Pavilion at 10:30, waiting on us to open the doors at 11. It makes all our hard work worthwhile, when we see all the smiling …
April 23, 2025

The Benefits Of A Data Center In Agriculture And Economic Growth

Editor, Times-Union: I’ve heard folks say I have prime farmland. What I haven’t heard mentioned are the eleven towers scattered across it - eleven towers that you have to till, plant, and harvest around. Heaven forbid you hit one. Planes that spray my fields can’t hit the full area because …
April 20, 2025

Data Center Story

Editor, Times-Union: Oregon’s Hillsboro Herald printed this article on April 16th. It is titled, “190 years of Farming ends as Latest Massive Data Centers and Factories Expand in Hillsboro.”
April 20, 2025

Dissolve The Conservancy

Editor, Times-Union: As a lifelong resident and engaged citizen, I am writing to express serious concerns about the continued existence of the Turkey Creek Dam and Dike Conservancy District (TCDDCD), a special tax district originally formed for the limited purpose of repairing a single dam and a single dike. Those …
April 20, 2025

Four Months

Editor, Times-Union: It took 250 years to build a nation that was the envy of the world. It took four months to tear it down. Countries that once admired, envied, and emulated us … countries that had our backs and gave their support and spilled their own blood defending us …
April 17, 2025

KREMC - Remember Why The Co-op Exists

Editor, Times-Union: It is disturbing to find out that our rural KREMC co-op signed a nondisclosure agreement with Prologis long before it was announced that they were seeking farmland in the middle of an agriculture zoned area.
April 16, 2025

Syracuse Self-Dealing?

Editor, Times-Union: In northeast Kosciusko County, nestled at the north end of Lake Wawasee, sits the town of Syracuse. What began as concerns over bookkeeping has erupted into statewide controversy, the alleged misappropriation of public funds. For this sleepy, summer resort community, the news is deeply troubling.
April 14, 2025

Data Center

Editor, Times-Union: My husband and I live a mile west of the proposed data center. I spent quite a bit of time reading the Forward Kosciusko County Comprehensive Plan.
April 14, 2025

Betterment Of The Whole

Editor, Times-Union: There are some residents in our county that are not even aware of the current land use conflict. Why are the farmers so upset with spot zoning? This is just a fight between farmers and progress, right? Nothing like that could happen where I live - Or could …
April 14, 2025

No To Data Center

The county commissioners are going to be voting on a 554-acre heavy industrial rezoning request. Let me be clear: The Area Plan Commission already reviewed the Prologis data center project, exercised zoning scoring, and unanimously shot it down. Now it’s on you to finish the job and protect the Leesburg …
April 14, 2025

Ag Is Our Beating Heart

Editor, Times-Union: If you look in a Kosciusko County plat book from the 1800s, you will find some familiar names. You’ll find Anglin, Hall, Powell, Stookey, Boggs, Bishop and Moneyheffer scattered throughout Prairie and Jefferson townships.
April 14, 2025

DOE Funded My Dream

Editor, Times-Union: I grew up in Nappanee in the ’80s and ’90s. Because our town was home to lots of working class families like mine, our schools received extra money from the federal Department of Education (DOE) called Title I funds. I can’t say with certainty how our district used …
April 14, 2025

Response To Letter

Editor, Times-Union: In Tony Fleckenstein’s April 8 letter, he defends the current administration’s service-cutting policies as mere attacks on waste, fraud and abuse, while making use of biblical references (“oh, ye of little faith,” “doubting thomas”) to chastise those who place little trust in this White House (and even less …
April 9, 2025

Save The Farmland

Editor, Times-Union: When you drive down the road and see and see fields of corn what do you think? Have you ever considered the economic development that each acre of corn supports?
April 9, 2025

Save Our Farmground And Community

Editor, Times-Union: Prologis says they “appreciate the agricultural community.” Does the world’s largest builder of data center really understand Leesburg, Indiana?
April 9, 2025

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