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Heritage Runs Away From Manchester

After starting the 2000 season with a big 20-7 win over Mississinewa last Friday night, the Manchester Squires would get their first real test against a veteran team in Heritage Friday night.The Squires were hoping to turn the tables against the Patriots.The Patriots defeated the Squires 35-21 last year. After piling up 450 yards on the ground last week against New Haven in a 39-20 win, Manchester had a huge task at hand.The question of the night was if the Squire defense would rise to the challenge. The answer, too much J.D.Myers.Myers scored all three touchdowns on the ground, enabling Heritage to pull out a 20-0 win over the Squires.
Craig Helfrich, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Columbia City Hammers Whitko

COLUMBIA CITY - The Columbia City Eagles pulled off a surprise win over Whitko, ranked No.5 in the coaches poll on Friday night.Columbia City won a 33-12 shocker behind two touchdown performances from Josh Monesmith and Marshall Keith. Whitko defeated the Eagles in each of the last two years, but it was not meant to be this year. After Jimmy Linn scampered for a three-yard touchdown, Columbia City came back with four straight scores, including an 88 yard kickoff return by Monesmith to blow the game open. Whitko (1-1) will be at Southwood, the defending TRC champions, on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Concord Downs Wawasee

Are These Tigers For Real? Pole Position Column By Dale Hubler, Times-Union Sports Writer Did Warsaw's football team really dismantle its first two opponents, Columbia City and Tippecanoe Valley, by a combined score of 68-9? Were the Fisher Field stands really that populated over an hour before the start of Warsaw's season opener, a game in which the Tigers pummeled Columbia City 33-0? Did Kim Leasure, father of junior offensive lineman Jarod Leasure, really look at his watch continuosly while he was at work on the day of Warsaw's first game and count down the hours until kickoff? He says he did. Did the Tigers really go 81 yards in 15 seconds and score a touchdown on the first play from the line-of-scrimmage against Valley last week? The answer to all of these questions is yes.
Photo by Gary Nieter, Times-Union- | July 28, 2016

Warrior Spikers Get Past Squires; Warsaw Beats Whitko

Syracuse - Wawasee's volleyball team won a three-game match over the Manchester Squires 15-10, 11-15, 15-12 on Tuesday. Lydia Carpenter had 11 kills and five blocks for Wawasee, while Kara Mathew added five digs and eight kills.Sara Frantz had 25 assists and four digs. Megan Eckert had 20 assists and five blocks for Manchester.Greta Miller delivered three aces, 10 points and two kills.Jodie Peden had seven digs, six blocks and four kills.Jessica Hicks had two aces, eight points and four digs. Wawasee won the junior varsity match 13-15, 15-6, 15-4, to improve to 4-2.Gennie Brissette had four kills for the Warriors.Megan Sell had 20 passes and nine service points for Manchester, while teammate Kasie Zile had 18 sets.Manchester's junior varsity team is 2-1.
Staff Report, Prep Roundup- | July 28, 2016

Vikings Tame Lamb In 20-6 Win

GAS CITY -ÊTippecanoe Valley senior fullback Josh Carter scored three touchdowns as the Vikings beat Mississinewa 20-6 Friday Carter scored on a 1-yard run and 4-yard run in the third quarter and a 4-yard run in the fourth quarter.Valley, trailing 6-0 at the half, scored all 20 in the second half. As they did last week, the Vikings again controlled time of possession.Tippecanoe Valley's football team allowed just five first downs for the second straight game.The Vikings kept Mississinewa senior running back Chris Lamb in check.Lamb, who rushed for 208 yards last week against Manchester, tallied 89 on 26 carries against Valley.Mississinewa finished with 111 yards of total offense. Wes Backus led Valley with 73 rushing yards on 10 carries, while Carter added 51 rushing yards on 12 carries.Valley finished with 201 rushing yards.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Tops Wildcats In Volleybal

Tuesday night's match between Warsaw and Whitko in the Tiger Den was a study in two teams who have shown flashes of good volleyball but haven't put it together for an entire match.The Tigers rode a strong team performance en route to a 25-15, 25-16, 25-18 win. Warsaw jumped out to an early lead, 5-0.The Tigers had problems serving in the first game, allowing Whitko to close to 16-14 before the Tigers ran off a 9-1 string of points. For Whitko and coach Brett Lyvers, the 9-1 run is indicative of the Wildcats' season.
DANIEL RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Young Tiger Duo Not To Be Overlooked

Look at the matchups for Friday's girls tennis state finals at Indianapolis North Central High School and the numbers might be startling. Those numbers - 24-3, 29-1, 29-3, 24-2, 31-1, 22-1 and 11-7 - are the records of the seven doubles teams that will battle for the right to play in the state championship match set for 2 p.m.Saturday. What might startle local tennis fans is that the last record listed belongs to Warsaw's Kara Kesler and Liza Weidenbenner.Kesler, a sophomore, and Weidenbenner, a freshman, will have the task of trying to tame seniors Danielle Moore and Demetra Strath of Merrillville.Moore and Strath boast the 31-1 record. Wednesday afternoon Warsaw coach Jill Basden was asked how she reacted when she found out her team's first-round opponent.
DALE HUBLER, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Wins Golf Sectional

The man who ran Rozella Ford Golf Course for years walked up to take a peek at the sectional scores teams were putting up on yet another chilly and rainy spring day. Don Dicken, Rozella's golf pro for 35 years, took a sip of his steaming coffee.Then he looked at the scoreboard and said this, which is all you need to see to understand how Warsaw's day went: "Matt (Teevan) had a bad finish," he said.Then he looked at the scores that had been reported."And that's low so far?" Indeed it was, at least for the scores that had been reported. Teevan shot a six, a five and a six on the last three holes to finish with a score of 80.After firing a career-best 36 on the par-35 front nine, he shot a 44 on the par-35 back nine. One other thing about Teevan: he learned he would be in Warsaw's lineup less than 24 hours before the match.He is the Tigers' No.5 golfer.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

No. 13 Tiger Spikers Whip Wildcats

It was not hard for Jamie Byron and Dave McCracken to be looking ahead toward the future. Tuesday's high school volleyball matchup between McCracken's Whitko Wildcats and Byron's Warsaw Tigers was, albeit just a glimpse, a possible sectional matchup come the end of the season. For Byron, new to the volleyball scene in the area, it was a chance to see a team, any team, that could be a postseason opponent for the Tigers.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

Whitko Spikers Surge Past Manchester

NORTH MANCHESTER - The Whitko Wildcat volleyball team came from behind to beat Manchester Thursday evening. Manchester won the first game 15-12.Whitko came back to win the second game 15-2 with strong net play by sophomore Shana Miner and good serving by Brigitte Goble. Manchester held the 5-2 lead in the tiebreaker and extended it to 12-7.Whitko then clawed back to a 13-13 tie, and then the Wildcats sealed the 15-13 win with a Tisha Shepherd kill on an overpass. For Whitko, Amber Landis had four kills, two aces, eight digs and two blocks; Brigitte Goble had three kills, two aces, five digs and one block; Kayce Moore had three kills, three blocks and one dig; and Tisha Shepherd had three kills, four blocks and two digs. Greta Miller and Jodie Peden each had three kills for Manchester.Erin Groombridge and Karmen Miller each had three assists.Peden had seven blocks, while Carrie Rodriguez had six digs.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Triton Reacts To Teachers' Grievance

BOURBON - The Triton School Board responded Monday to a grievance filed by the Triton Teachers' Association on behalf of four elementary schoolteachers against the Triton School Corp. Board president Kevin Boyer said the board had decided, in favor of the school corporation, not to provide substitutes to cover the four teachers' classes while they met twice a month for a 35-minute collaborative book study. In a special meeting Dec.6, Indiana State Teachers Association UniServ Director Kent Kimpel told the board the four teachers believe their contract with the school corporation was violated when they were required to meet after school hours twice each month for a book study, because their teaching schedules would not allow them to meet during school hours.
TIM ROBERTSON, Times-Union Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Police Probe Weekend Robbery Try, Carjacking

An attempted armed robbery on Friday and a carjacking on Saturday are under investigation by local authorities. In Friday's incident, two Hispanic males are suspects in the attempted armed robbery of a Grindle Trucking employee shortly before 5 p.m. The 55-year-old female employee was about to enter the West Winona Avenue business with cash for the weekly payroll when she was approached by the two men as she exited her car.One man reportedly displayed a gun, which a witness told police was a 12-gauge Mossburg shotgun with pistol grips.
Ruth Anne Lipka, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

Shot Fired; Two Jailed In Warsaw

Two men were jailed Tuesday night after one allegedly fired a round from a pistol at the other. Thomas Lopez, 29, of 330 EMS T26 Lane, Leesburg, is preliminarily charged with criminal recklessness.Bond was set at $5,000.Also charged was Scott Malcolm Hutchison, 35, of 2793 N.CR 600E, Warsaw.He was charged with disorderly conduct and is being held in the Kosciusko County Jail on $350 bond. According to a Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department report, Hutchison went to the Lopez residence to speak with his ex-wife, Candace Lopez, about a visitation dispute concerning their children. A KCSD press release noted that Hutchison and Candace Lopez have a history of custody disputes. Hutchison reportedly arrived at the residence about 7:30 p.m.with a metal baseball bat and struck the vehicle Candace Lopez was driving while she was in the driveway.Hutchison allegedly followed his ex-wife home after exchanging custody in Oswego.
Ruth Anne Lipka, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

Bandit, Rebels And Basketball Highlighted Local News Events

This year's most interesting stories of local interest involved a bandit, a basketball hero and a handful of rebels from Silver Lake. In a survey by the Times-Union news staff, the top news story of 1996 was the ongoing tale of the Bicycle Bandit, the assailant who kept Warsaw residents nervous for the entire summer as he casually broke into upward of 70 homes. In most cases, the assailant - believed to have fled the area - entered many homes that had been left unlocked.Often, the suspect rooted through purses and took only cash. The common denominator in most cases was the bandit's escape method - use of a bicycle - with fresh tracks in the grass left behind near many of the homes. On two occasions, he was confronted by residents inside, one of whom included a son of Mayor Jeff Plank.In the other incident, he confronted a woman and punched her in the face.
Dan Spalding, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Commissioners Table Request To Vacate Right Of Way

To give both sides time to reach a compromise, the Kosciusko County commissioners tabled a petition Tuesday by Kenneth L.and Brenda J.Wright and H.Allen and Helen A.Heuss for 60 days. The petition is to vacate a 35-foot-wide, 100-foot-long right of way on the northwest side of Chapman Lake, adjacent to EMS C27 C1 Lane in Plain Township. Matt Sandy, Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission assistant planner, told the commissioners that service providers did not comment about the vacation but many adjacent property owners were against the vacation.Though not a county maintained road, the public right of way has a usefulness to it and the plan commission recommended that it not be vacated, Sandy said.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

ABC Warns Bar Owners About Gambling

Liquor licenses could be lost if Kosciusko County bars and taverns don't get rid of their illegal professional gambling devices. Every alcohol permit is renewed annually.Permits with violations against them are cleared with the Alcohol & Tobacco Commission before the permit goes before the local alcohol board for yearly renewal. Thursday, the Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage Commission approved a motion that any permit with a report of a violation against it regarding illegal gambling or gambling devices in the establishment may be given a 30-day continuous extension to correct the violation before the local board decision is made. If the violation is not corrected, the board could make a decision based on the violation report not to renew the alcohol permit. Each case may be judged on its individual merits. Two businesses with permits up for renewal before the local board Thursday were warned about gambling devices on their premises.
DAVID SLONE Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

KCH Negotiating Purchase Of Bowen Inpatient Building

Kosciusko Community Hospital is negotiating with The Otis R.Bowen Center for Human Services Inc.to purchase the building currently owned by Bowen Center and operated as an inpatient unit. Bowen Center's office building will not be affected by the sale. Bob Murphy, of R.P.Murphy & Associates, planning consultants, told the Kosciusko County commissioners Tuesday that when the deal is struck, KCH will ask the Bowen Center to relocate all clients.Bowen Center has no place currently to relocate and serve clients needing inpatient care, Murphy said.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Remembering 1998

At the end of every year, newspapers, magazines and networks look back at the year in review. They pinpoint the highlights of the year, as well as the low points.The media says farewell to those who have passed on during the year and welcomes the new faces. The Times-Union is no exception. Staff writers chose the top 10 local stories of 1998.A list of 30 was compiled and narrowed down to 17, due to a couple of ties.Those 17 were then ranked by the staff writers and pared down to the top 10.Those stories, chosen in order, are: 1.Brandon Robinson - Robinson, 18, of 1815 Deer Trail, was initially charged with three counts of driving while intoxicated causing death.He was later charged with three counts of DWI causing death, three counts of reckless homicide and two counts of DWI causing serious bodily injury. Robinson entered a plea of not guilty.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

County Reappoints Various Officials

County Commissioners Avis Gunter, Eddie Creighton and Brad Jackson met for the last time of the year Tuesday. They'll reassemble in 1999 on Jan.5 at 9 a.m.Their final business of 1998 included reappointments, contract renewals and highway matters. Tom Everett was reappointed as the Veterans' Administration Officer.Mike Miner will remain as the county attorney, and Ellsworth Everest will keep his position on the Civil Defense and Environmental Emergency Management.Remaining on Kosciusko Development Inc.is Eddie Creighton.Bob Knudsen will keep his appointed position at Arrowhead RC&D and Matt Vigneault will serve on the St.Joseph River Basin Community Association. Gordon Vanator will replace Arden Warner on the Alcohol Beverage Commission in 1999.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Local Gunshops See Problems In New Instant Check

Gun buyers won't have to worry about an extra fee for the National Instant Background Check.They may have to worry about waiting a while to find out whether their gun purchase is acceptable or not, though. Glenn Meeks, Albertson's Sport Shop manager, said the fee that was initially planned for the FBI check into a gun buyer's background was dropped, at least for the first year. "Congress said the law was unfair," Meeks said. Earl Howard, of Little Hawk's Guns, Knives and Collectibles, said, "Right now, there is no user fee for the background check.Congress appropriated the fee." Howard said Congress appropriated about $260 million for the background check. "Instead of charging (the gun buyer) for the background fee, they spread the cost out among the American people.It's supposed to protect the people.The American people benefit from the criminals not getting the guns," Howard said.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016
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