Fussle Gives First Hand Account Of Situation In Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The smell is undescribable. Those on the ground in Haiti, besides asking for water, food and medical supplies, keep asking for one thing: Masks.

Councilman Sanders Remembered With Fond Words, Memories

An outpouring of condolences from community leaders was heard in Warsaw following the death of Kosciusko County Council President Bob Sanders.

GEC Adult Education Offers Opportunities For A New Career

Wawasee Holds Outdoor Graduation Ceremony

Conspiracies

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 in the unelected Elon Musk).

Warsaw Library Board Hears About New State Park Passes

Warsaw Community Public Library is now offering state park passes for its patrons.

Let's Be Clear

Editor, Times-Union: So you think it will be okay if fact checkers are eliminated on social media platforms?

CASA Of Kosciusko County Announces Election Of New Board Members

CASA of Kosciusko County announced the election of three new board members in 2024.

Letters to the Editor 07-03-2003

- School Proposals - Greatly Missed - 'Terrorist Hunter' - Angels On Sheridan Street - Intent Of Legislators - Project Of Liberty School Proposals Editor, Times-Union: In light of recent controversy over the decisions by the Warsaw Community School Board, here are a few ideas for reforming education at the local level. 1.The current school building plan approved by the school board on June 16 should be canceled.It adds more needless debt during a state budget/spending crisis.The property tax situation still needs to be resolved first; and this current plan downsizes small towns.

Train Derails At Burket

BURKET -ÊTrain traffic is reduced and moving slowly through Burket after a derailment caused significant damage to railroad tracks Tuesday evening. Around 8:16 p.m.Tuesday, a bulk train car lost its rear wheel assembly, including the four back wheels and axles, on the railroad tracks at Burket.The back of the train car, which sustained significant damage, dragged, causing damage to the rails and ties of the track for at least a half mile. The car, which previously carried calcium powder, was empty at the time of the derailment. "I don't know why it derailed, it is a rare failure," said Burket Fire Chief Kevin McSherry."We are very lucky it was the rear set of wheels that came off." When the wheels came off the car, the train came apart, but the car did not turn over.The wheels flew off to the side, barely missing Powell's Tire Co.on Walnut Street next to the tracks. "It very well could have gone through the wall of the business," said McSherry.

Warm Weather Brings Out Thieves

While the warm weather this weekend may have urged joggers to dig out their running shoes it also prompted a few thieves to get back to work. Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department received reports from victims of several burglaries on Saturday when temperatures reached a record high 62 degrees. Burglars pried open the front door of John Hurd's home at 2398 E.CR 1050N, Milford.Hurd returned home Saturday evening to find bedrooms gone through, drawers overturned on the floor and closet doors left wide open. A handgun, jewelry, cash and other personal effects were stolen from the residence. Authorities report witnesses saw a black van backed up to Hurd's front door around 4:15 p.m.Saturday. Also hit Saturday was the summer cottage of Jim Labee, Boling Brooke, Ill.Labee reported his Silver Lake cottage broken into at 10:30 p.m.Taken from the cottage was $1,000 in fishing equipment.Entry was made through a damaged door.

Congestion

Editor, Times-Union:Let's go back a few generations from Dr. Remington's nostalgic, well-put letter on Warsaw and its growing pains.In 1926, my dad moved his five children just off of Lake Street (on Perry) into a nice big house - population about 5,000 then.

Beavers Had Local Ties In Early 1990s

Michael Joseph Beavers once lived in this area before moving back to Michigan, Warsaw police learned today. According to Detective Sgt.Steve Adang of the Warsaw Police Department, Beavers, 38, and his first wife lived in a mobile home park on CR 29, in Elkhart County, just outside Syracuse, in the early 1990s.At that time, Adang said, Beavers worked at Hoskins, a manufacturing facility in New Paris that is no longer in business. Adang said he believes Beavers lived near Syracuse for only "a couple of years," and moved back to Michigan in the early 1990s. "About the time he left is when he starting getting in trouble up there," Adang said. Beavers reportedly entered The Cutting Edge around 9 a.m.with a sawed-off rifle and knife Monday, tied up four female employees, sexually assaulted one and cut another before reportedly committing suicide.

Child Dies When Car Rolls

MENTONE - A 5-year-old Mentone girl was killed when she was ejected from a car she was riding in when it rolled into a cornfield along Ind.25, east of CR 780W, near Mentone. Valeria Ayala-Castro of West Main Street was pronounced dead at Kosciusko Community Hospital after the 1:30 p.m.accident Sunday.She was thrown several feet from where the vehicle was at rest after the accident. Witnesses told police that the vehicle, driven by Juana Ayala, 31, of West Main Street, Mentone, dropped off the right side of the road and, when she attempted to bring the car back onto the roadway, Ayala apparently overcorrected.The vehicle then swerved back to the right, went into a ditch and became airborne before flipping several times.The car came to rest upside down in a cornfield. Ayala and another passenger in the car, Alexandria Ayala-Castro, 9, of West Main Street, Mentone, were airlifted from the scene to Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne.

Man Arrested After Southtown Foot Chase

WINONA LAKE - A 20-year-old man led Winona Lake police on a chase through Southtown Estates Tuesday afternoon. When a Winona Lake police officer attempted to serve an outstanding arrest warrant on Ronald Wayne Redden Jr., Redden reportedly tried to flee from the officer. Redden, 20, of 601 Charles St., Winona Lake, ran out of his house, then ran back inside through a back door."He obviously did not want to go with us," Winona Lake officer Chad Stevens said. Redden was trapped in the basement of the home by Stevens, who used pepper spray to try to subdue Redden. Redden then escaped the house and ran down the street several blocks.He was reportedly found hiding in a bush on Roy Street. Stevens said that none of the officers were injured by the pepper spray.An EMS unit came to the house to check on Redden's grandfather and sister who were also in the house during the incident.Both bystanders were said to be uninjured.

Milford Man Injured In Roadside Attack

A Milford man was attacked Sunday night as he tried to change a flat tire on CR 175E, near Milford. Chet T.Wortinger, 22, was driving home from his mother's Syracuse residence when a tire on his Dodge Neon car went flat.He pulled to the side of the road, about an eighth of a mile south of CR 1300N, to change the flat. At about 9:50 p.m., a vehicle Wortinger thinks was a pickup pulled up and shined a bright spotlight in his face. A man reportedly got out of the vehicle and asked if Wortinger needed help.He said no, and was then hit over the head with an unknown object. Wortinger went unconscious.He later woke up and drove home on the flat tire, leaving the spare and tire jack alongside the road.

Conservation Officer Attacked By Deer

A conservation officer was gored by a penned deer Saturday afternoon while he was feeding the animal. Carl Hepler of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources has two whitetail bucks in separate pens at his McKenna Road residence, according to conservation officer Lyle Enyeart.When Hepler was feeding a 2-1/2-year-old male, the animal attacked him when he turned his back to it. Enyeart said that it is instinct for the animals to fight this time of year.Normally, Enyeart said, a buck will try to fight another buck, but will also fight a doe "or anything he can....Carl said he knew he made a mistake and turned his back." Hepler was pinned in the corner by the animal and it "kept going at him," said Kosciusko County Sheriff Al Rovenstine.A 911 call regarding the incident came into the sheriff's department at 3:58 p.m.Saturday.

Fairlane Sewer Project Under Way

Construction workers recently broke ground on a new sewer project along Fairlane Drive, supervised by Warsaw's wastewater treatment department. For the next two months workers will replace sanitary sewer lines in the area, as well as repair force mains and add new back-up pumps for the sewer system. "Over the years there has been settling on the ground because (this neighborhood) is so close to the lake, and it's not all settling uniformly," Wastewater Treatment Utility Department Head Dave Henderson said."We get in there and clean it up." The $116,375 project is being completed by Everest Excavating LLC of Warsaw. Until completion, Henderson said there will be restricted one-lane traffic in the area, which is close to Lakeview Middle School. "When it comes to traffic, we'll try and keep it moving during the day, and we'll open (the roads) back up at night to the best of our ability.

Suspect Extradited From Kentucky

A Warsaw man wanted in connection with a fight with a Warsaw police officer last fall was extradited from Kentucky to Kosciusko County Wednesday.His arrival back in the county so soon came as a surprise to local law enforcement officers. Francis Charles Hamilton, 31, of 722 N.Cook St., was preliminarily charged with resisting law enforcement, probation violation and burglary.He is being held in the Kosciusko County Jail on $70,000. Authorities reported earlier that Hamilton, in custody in Kentucky, was fighting extradition to Indiana."We thought he was going to fight it all the way to the governor," said Kosciusko County Sheriff Al Rovenstine. Hamilton was wanted in connection with a search for a suspicious person in the Valley Springs area. On Nov.19, Warsaw Ptl.David Morales allegedly spotted a man in a cornfield near the location of two suspicious person sightings.Morales attempted to apprehend the subject and a fight ensued.