Yeiter, Smolen seek District 1 school board seat

An unexpected question from an audience member had the Warsaw School Board district one candidates defending Grace College and school prayer Monday night. The two candidates were participating in the "Meet the Candidates" forum sponsored by the Warsaw Community Education Association and the American Association of University Women.

Warsaw Schools Looks at 2014 Budget

Warsaw School Board Tuesday reviewed the corporation’s proposed 2014 budget of approximately $71 million.

Bill Stumps For Hillary In Rochester

ROCHESTER - Former President Bill Clinton campaigned Monday in Rochester for his wife Hillary, Democrat presidential candidate.

New Town Manager Gets To Know Syracuse

But it's not a big deal to Redshaw. "I don't know how you define (being a people person), but I enjoy working with people," Redshaw said Tuesday."I try to keep my door open as much as I can." His priorities for Syracuse include business retention and economic development.He said he wants to accomplish those goals by being a promoter of the community and helping the town put its best foot forward.He also said business retention is not an issue that can be taken for granted. He said he will promote business retention by "public relations.Going out and meeting people, letting them know who (I am)." A good relationship with the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce will also be a priority with him, he said.

Wawasee Community Responds After Meningitis Death

SYRACUSE - Wawasee Community School Corp. is still feeling the pain of losing a student to meningococcal disease.

Ambrose - America Still Spunky

Reports of his death, Mark Twain once humorously said, were greatly exaggerated. And so are reports of America’s decline. But there’s an obvious difference. Death is final and definitive and has either happened or it hasn’t, which means you cannot really exaggerate it. Decline is a process, and even when dismal predictions go overboard, they can be plausible enough not to be funny.

Milford Gets Four New Reserve Officers

MILFORD – Four new reserve officers are joining the Milford Police Department, though they won’t be on active duty till next year.

Local Grant Will Help Battle Addiction

Indiana American Water Files Rate Request Driven By $875 Million In Investment

Winona Council Doesn’t Reestablish CCD Fund

Threats Beyond COVID-19

Local News Briefs 9.27.2018

Series On Senior Living, Aging At Parkview;

CASA Plants A Pinwheel Garden

World/Nation Briefs 10.22.2012

Neck-and-neck at the end, Obama and Romney seek foreign policy edge in final campaign debateWASHINGTON (AP) — Still neck-and-neck after all these months, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney head into their third and final debate with each man eager to project an aura of personal strength and leadership while raising doubts about the steadiness and foreign policy credentials of the other guy.

Grace College Gets $2.3 Million Grant

WINONA LAKE - Grace College has been awarded a $2,343,000 grant from Lilly Endowment in Indianapolis. The grant is the largest foundation grant ever received by Grace College and will be used to build a residence hall which also will house student services offices. The college plans to integrate residential living for underclassmen from Indiana with student services.Departments such as the financial aid office, the registrar's office and career services will be located in the new building. The building also will help provide for Grace's increasing student population.This year, the number of new students grew by 22.3 percent over last year's numbers.

Nappanee Receives Main Street Award

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Lt.Gov.Kathy Davis recently announced that a Nappanee renovation site has received the Indiana Main Street award for the outstanding adaptive reuse project of 2003. The award is given to a project that brings a historic downtown building back into use or adapts the building for a new use.Owen Weaver, Dave Pottinger and his wife, Faye Walters, along with Jeremy Stutsman and Maija Walters-Stutsman, undertook the rehabilitation of a former lumberyard that most thought would remain vacant until being bulldozed for redevelopment. Against the advice of a financial adviser, the Weaver, Pottinger and Stutsman families purchased the property from Big C Lumber.Renovation took several years to complete, but the area is now being used by many businesses.Former lumber bins have been converted into various leasable spaces and the compound houses a farmers' market, bakery, floral arranger, jeweler and art gallery, among other things.

Times-Union Court News 08-18-2004

Superior Court II The following misdemeanors and infractions were recently admitted and adjudged in Kosciusko Superior Court II with Judge James Jarrette presiding.The month the incident occurred is included to eliminate confusion. The following person also paid $98.50 in court costs: Speeding - n Fined $12 was: Abraham Garcia, Warsaw. The following person also paid $86.50 in court costs: Speeding - n Fined $12 was: Stephannie A Dixon, Cromwell. The following people also paid $84.50 in court costs: Speeding - n Fined $12 was: Shannon M.Howell, Silver Lake. n Fined $27 was: Joel A.Schuh, Warsaw. Disregarding a Stop Sign/Automatic Signal - n Fined $7 were: Juan C.Alvarado, Milford; James M.Bacon, Cromwell. Driving Without Proof of Financial Responsibility - n Raleen L.Hyde, Warsaw, fined $50.

Republican Chairman Won't Seek Re-Election

Kosciusko County Republican Party Chairman Mike Gavin said he will not seek re-election for the post. "I just want to do some other things," said Gavin Monday afternoon. Instead, Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine has agreed to seek the party chairmanship. Gavin has been his party's chairman for four years.He said he has accomplished all the things he wanted to see done, including establishing the Young Republicans, getting the party on sound financial footing, purchasing computer equipment and having the party's Web site at www.koscogop.com up and running. "I'm leaving it in good shape," Gavin said. He also has increased the number of Republicans in office in the county compared to when he became chairman.Gavin said he will stay involved in the party. The caucus to elect a new party chairman has yet to be called, but will be March 5.Gavin's term ends the same day.

Biomet Seeks Abatement For Building Addition

Biomet employees Terry Martin and Tom Bauters and Warsaw attorney Rick Helm approached the Kosciusko County council with a tax abatement request Thursday. The company is planning a two-story building addition for a additional 60,000 square feet at its current manufacturing location on U.S.30. Building costs are about $5.5 million, according to Bauters, a CPA.He presented financial information while Martin gave specifics about the proposed expansion. The building should be completed in September 2003 and an additional 250 to 300 employees are expected to be added after five years. Over the next 10 years Plain Township will realize an additional $567,000 with the new addition.The company currently pays $534,000 in property and personal property taxes. The council approved the 10-year tax abatement, with councilman Larry Teghtmeyer saying there was no reason to deny the company this request.

Claypool Good Neighbors Set To Repair Sidewalk

CLAYPOOL - The Good Neighbors are busy planning a new stretch of sidewalk on Railroad Street from Section to Calhoun in the next few weeks. "There was an accident here recently," said Paul Burkey of the dipping and twisting stretch of broken cement."A little girl fell off her bike and required 17 stitches after the accident." So the Good Neighbors, who have been making modest repairs and improvements throughout the community, saw a sidewalk in need of straightening. To assist them financially the Kosciusko Community Foundation is providing a grant from unrestricted funds, said KCF's Stephanie Overbey. "It's nice to be in Claypool," she said.Good Neighbors are people who just work to get things done.They're people getting together to do nice things for their town." The group has $2,500 on hand for the sidewalk project which will include another sidewalk on Section Street where none now exists.