Perzanowski Tabbed As Syracuse Town Marshal

SYRACUSE - Indiana State Trooper Thomas Perzanowski was named as the new Syracuse town marshal at the Syracuse Town Council meeting Tuesday. Perzanowski is retiring from the state police at the end of this year after 20 years of service.He has a B.S.degree from Goshen College and a M.S.degree from IU/PU Fort Wayne.His position as town marshal is effective Jan.8. "He probably had as good qualifications as could be asked for," Council President William Cutter said. There were 12 total applications for the job, he said.Perzanowski lives in Syracuse and Cutter said Perzanowski would have applied for the town marshal job previously but it was too soon to retire from the state police. "It just seemed like it happened at an opportune time," Cutter said."We're really happy with the selection.It was a unanimous selection.He's a fine man." Current Town Marshal William F.Endler's resignation will be effective Jan.7.

TIF District Set Up For Biodiesel Plant

Four county boards convened in the old courtroom Monday to approve the Louis-Dreyfus request to establish an economic development area and to approve a tax abatement and benefits for the company. All members of the county council, commissioners, area plan commission and redevelopment commission heard from Louis Dreyfus representative Mike Mandl, Todd Samuelson of Umbaugh and Associates and Thomas Downs of the Ice Miller law firm. In March, after nearly two years of research and study, Louis Dreyfus Commodities announced its decision to build one of the largest soybean processing plants in the world in Kosciusko County, south of Claypool. Groundbreaking at the 250-acre property was April 20.Construction costs are expected to be $120 million.

Kosciusko County Participating In Screening, Discussion Of WFYI’s Hoosiers Movie

In celebration of Indiana’s Bicentennial, the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce will host a public screening and discussion of “Hoosiers: The Story of Indiana: The Next Indiana” at 7:30 a.m. Nov. 29.

Justice Building Interior Renovations Bids Opened

Bids for the interior renovations of the Justice Building were opened Tuesday by the Kosciusko County Commissioners, each coming in at less than $2 million.

County Employees Looking At 2-Percent Pay Raise

During the first of two budget meetings scheduled for this week, the Kosciusko County Council preliminarily approved giving all full- and part-time employees a 2-percent pay bump in 2012.

Enjoying The First Day Of School

Willa Henry takes a break from her retirement to wish students a happy return to class. Henry is enjoying her first year of retirement after teaching 41 years in the Warsaw school system. Today was the first day of school for Warsaw. Henry was photographed on her porch at her home on Kings Highway in Winona Lake. Photo by Gary Nieter, Times-Union

Hupp Retiring

After 26 years of service with the Warsaw Police Department, officer Brian T. Hupp is retiring, effective Aug. 31.

Ivy Tech Celebrates Retiring Chancellor

Valley May Cut Back Teacher's Hours

MENTONE - Tippecanoe Valley High School vocational agriculture teacher Lisa Paxton is facing a possible reduction in the number of days on her teaching contract. A public hearing was held Monday to give Paxton a chance to speak to school board members regarding the possible reduction. Superintendent Dr.Karen S.Boling said Paxton's days would be reduced from a 240-day contract to a 195-day contract, or 9-1/2 months, due to state budget projections and school financial concerns. Boling said she received the state budget projection approximately one month ago from the Senate, indicating new money received would be 1 percent.She said the board then became concerned with funding.

Lady Warriors Beat Lakeland Lakers

SYRACUSE – Offensively, the Wawasee Lady Warriors aren't where they want to be yet.

City Council To Discuss Making Dubois Drive One-Way

Dubois Drive may become a one-way street if approved by the Warsaw City Council at its meeting tonight. The Warsaw Traffic Commission recommended Dubois Drive become a one-way street westbound between Parker Street and Provident Drive at its meeting Thursday.The commission also discussed making the street one way at its Oct.5 meeting to avoid congestion problems at Dubois Drive and U.S.30. The topic was discussed as part of the Argonne Road, Center Street and Parker Street project. Jeff Weaver, director of engineering services for U.S.Infrastructure, attended the meeting and commission members requested he resubmit design plans reflecting design changes suggested by the commission. The project, according to commission members, would allow for using timing of signals more efficiently, provide three lanes at U.S.30, which would move more traffic and provide better access to the BP Station and The Spectacle Shoppe Inc.

Clinton Should Lead By Example

When President Bill Clinton took office back in 1992, there was one idea he had in particular that I support. That was his drug plan. He proposed cutting the amount of money spent on drug interdiction and enforcement.The purpose of those programs was to keep drugs out of the United States. Clinton said the money would be better spent on education programs for our young people.Telling them that drugs are bad. I agreed with that.It sounded good. Why spend money on stopping drugs coming into the country? Just eliminate the demand from within. But now, almost four years later, drug use by teens has more than doubled nationally.The annual survey by the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services shows that more than 2.4 million youths between 12 and 17 admitted using an illicit drug at least once during the prior month. It figures. One of the few times I agree with a program of Clinton's and it turns out to be a dismal failure.

Streets get facelift this summer

SOUTH WHITLEY - The relative peace and quiet of the town's downtown area will be replaced this summer with the sound of jackhammers, dump trucks and the shouts of construction workers as the streetscape undergoes a long-anticipated facelift. The folds and wrinkles of the uneven and crumbling sidewalks will be hauled off and replaced with smooth concrete, bordered with memorial bricks and lined with ornamental street lights. Citizens received a construction schedule from Gove Associates engineer Jerry Williams Wednesday during a special meeting of the town council. The sidewalk reconstruction project is the brainchild of South Whitley's Main Street organization, a project that has come to fruition after four years of planning.

Zimmer Continues Renovation To Old Lake Theatre

The final remnants of the Lake Theatre interior recently were removed from the northwest corner of Buffalo and Main streets, allowing workers to begin initial construction of a Zimmer building for planned corporate housing. The old lighted marque is dismantled.The slanted floors and cushioned seats of the theater are gone as well. Replacing the cinema, which opened its doors in 1952, will be a structure Warsaw Community Development Corp.Director Carmen Lock thinks will be quite the "showcase" for the surrounding area. "I believe this new building will be the greatest improvement for downtown Warsaw," Lock said."I stand back and just admire what's taking place." The new Zimmer facility will consist of 40 lodging units for corporate visitors, a majority which will be surgeons traveling to Warsaw to use the Zimmer Institute, a training facility in the basement of the company's headquarters on Main Street.The new building will not be open to the public.

Local Woman Writes First Children's Book

On Matt and Sue Baker's 25th wedding anniversary in 2005, a furry bundle of joy unexpectedly arrived in their back yard.

'Lake House' Launches Year-Round Outdoor Sports Venture

WINONA LAKE - Filled with an inventory of items usually only found in a bigger city, The Lake House opened its doors Oct. 2.

Zoning Board Allows Exception For Sign

A John Deere dealership sign near U.S. 30 will be taller than development standards allow thanks to a decision by the Warsaw Board of Zoning Appeals.

City Approves Rezoning; Plan Commission To Review Meijer Development Plan

Warsaw City Council unanimously approved a request to rezone property at the southeast corner of Anchorage Road and U.S. 30 Monday night.

County Planners Give Nod To Solar Energy Petition

Wanda Lea Schwartz Robinson Humes

Wanda Lea Schwartz Robinson Humes, 56, of 320 W. Main St., Apt. 218, Warsaw, died at 3:05 p.m. March 26, 2008, in Miller's Merry Manor, Warsaw.