Mentone To Move Forward With Park Upgrade Project

MENTONE – Mentone Town Council approved a motion Wednesday to hire Troyer Group if it is recommended by town engineer James Emans. Wednesday, Clerk-Treasurer Amanda Yaprak said the town is moving forward with the parks upgrade project.

Nappanee To Appeal FEMA Decision

NAPPANEE - State and local officials plan to launch an appeal after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Gov. Mitch Daniels' Nov. 2 request for aid for Nappanee last week

City Holds Public Hearing On 2010 Budget Reductions

Warsaw City Council held a public hearing for the 2010 city budget Monday.

North Manchester Library Offering Curbside Service

Warsawan Fights Back After Second Stroke

Warsaw resident Merrill Hostetler proved the doctors wrong. Hostetler, 76, is a retired tool and die maker living life differently than before. In November 1998, he had his second stroke, leaving his right arm, shoulder and hand paralyzed.His first stroke occurred eight years ago. "They (doctors) said I'd never use my right hand, but I've proved them wrong," Hostetler said with pride. "We never, ever thought he'd get this good," his wife, Marjorie, said."We never thought he'd live." "The whole right side (arm) is paralyzed," she said. Hostetler said doctors "told me that I'd never move my right hand." But despite doctors' predictions, Hostetler hasn't given up hope. He has a nurse that comes two hours every morning to work on range of motion and exercise for his right hand. "He can use that hand a little bit," Marjorie said."We're just trying to keep what he's got." Besides exercise, Hostetler also uses wood carving as therapy.

Squires Score 19 Runs In Second Inning, Beat Valley

When a team scores 19 runs in an inning, it’s usually on its way to a blowout victory.

Changes In Warrior BB Programs

SYRACUSE - In a span of 48 hours, Wawasee athletics has lost a girls basketball coach and potentially two boys basketball players. First things first.Varsity girls basketball coach Randy Aalbregtse announced Wednesday he will temporarily step down from teaching classes and coaching his team the rest of this year.He's taking a nine-week medical leave of absence, effective Friday.Aalbregtse and Wawasee athletic director Mary Hurley declined to mention specifics for the record.Aalbregtse gathered his players and talked to them Wednesday afternoon. "This is the best for everybody involved - the kids and everybody at school - at this time, because of my situation," Aalbregtse said. Aalbregtse missed two games for personal reasons earlier this season.Mark Sumpter stepped in then, and he will coach the team the rest of the way now.In those two games, the Warriors lost to Class 3A No.1 NorthWood 57-33 on Dec.16, then beat Northridge 44-41 in overtime on Dec.20.

Lt. Gov. Holcomb Reflects On 1st Month Of Job, Discusses Stellar Communities

Eric Holcomb has only been Indiana’s lieutenant governor since March 3, but he’s not slowed down since then.

Goldberg - Conservatives Offer Least Bad of Possible Debt Solutions

A lot of conservatives are having fun at President Obama’s expense after his latest gaffe. In the midst of testy debt-limit negotiations, Obama told House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, ‘‘Don’t call my bluff.’’ The first rule in bluffing is to keep it a secret that you’re bluffing. So, technically speaking, that’s like a con man saying, ‘‘Don’t give any weight to the fact that I’m lying.’’

Airport Board Updated On Power Line Lowering Project

Parkview Hospital Looks To Locate At New YMCA Site

Warsaw Board of Zoning Appeals Monday approved a use variance to allow medical offices and a hospital in Warsaw at the new YMCA site.

WCDE Puts Public In Driver's Seat

Skid control.Emergency and quick stops.Serpentine and special parking. Warsaw Community Driver Education Co-op Inc.took local media, school board members and others through those skills/activities Wednesday at Lakeview Middle School to show what students are offered through driver's education courses.The sample of the complete 30-plus hours of classroom and more than six hours of driving instruction was tailored down to 45 minutes. Before the journey began, each person was given the chance to sit in the driver's seat of a semi tractor-trailer.From the driver's seat, the "no-zones" (areas on the road where a semi driver can't see) were pointed out.

Women's NCCAA Athletes Participate In Local Community Service Projects

WINONA LAKE - Women's basketball players competing in the National Christian College Athletic Association Women's Basketball tournament had the opportunity to give back off the court Wednesday.

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Commissioners Fail To Decide Rezoning Request

Unable to make a decision Tuesday, county commissioners Brad Jackson and Ron Truex sent a rezoning petition back to the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission for further consideration. Commissioner Avis Gunter was not present at Tuesday's meeting. Despite the fact the plan commission already unanimously recommended the county commissioners deny the petition, the plan commission will take up the rezoning matter again at their meeting Oct.3 at 1 p.m.in the county courthouse. Doyle and Elaine Munson petitioned the commissioners to rezone 97 acres from an agricultural district to an agricultural II district.The property is on the east side of Packerton Road, north and south of CR 375S in Wayne Township. Attorney Steve Snyder, representing the Munsons, said there's a high concentration of residential development to the north of the property and residential development is going to grow in the area.

BOW OK’s Permits For New Taxi Company Owners

Assessing A Clear Case Of FEMA Vs. 'Romnesia'

Words have a way of coming back to haunt Mitt Romney, especially when he says them in front of television cameras.

Commission Continues Study Of Dunkin Traffic

Offensive Collapse Foils Lady Lancers' Upset Bid

WINONA LAKE – A second-half collapse foiled the Grace College women’s basketball team’s plans to upset No. 10 Marian on Wednesday night at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.

Couple Recall World War II Service

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of interviews with World War II veterans.The articles will appear each day of publication through May 28. ***** The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land battle of World War II in which the United States participated.More than a million men fought in this battle - 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans and 55,000 British. Don Nichols, now 78, was right in the thick of it. Nichols, then 18, was a recent Warsaw High School graduate.He sought entry into the Air Force in the summer of 1943.He ended up a Sherman tank gunner in the Third Army's 10th Armored Division. "I knew I'd be inducted anyway," Nichols said of the draft greeting many young men in the early 1940s.He passed all the Air Force tests, but that branch of the military was overcrowded with personnel at the time.