10 Years AgoWawasee High School will be represented on the football field in the RCA Dome as The Warriors take on Northern Lakes Conference rival NorthWood in the first game of NLC Day.
It looked to be a quick and painless victory for Triton volleyball Thursday night, with the Trojans up two sets to none and winning both fairly easily. But Tippecanoe Valley had different plans.
An open house is planned Saturday in honor of Jerry and Judy Hartman’s 50th wedding anniversary. Jerry Hartman and the former Judy Schultz were married May 4, 1968, in the United Methodist Church, Pierceton.
FORT WAYNE – Charles Leon Carr, 82, Fort Wayne, passed away Nov. 20, 2015, at the Bethlehem Woods nursing facility after a 10-year battle with Parkinson disease.
10 Years AgoThe Elks #802 hoop shoot winners competed in Ligonier Jan. 20. Tippecanoe Valley Middle School's Heidie Bruner will represent the 2nd District in Anderson Feb. 24. Bruner won the girls division for ages 12-13. Heidie's parents are Ron and Wanda Bruner. Other local competitors included Mentone's Hannah Boggs (8-9 girls), Mentone's Brittany Cross (10-11 girls), Akron's Deon Shaefer (8-9 boys) and Akron's Steve Tillman (10-11 boys). Tillman won the local competition.25 Years AgoFrances Noble, who has worked for the past 24 years in the file room of the Justice Building, retired this week. When friends ask what she is going to do with all her spare time, she jokes, "I'm going to sit at home by the window and watch the cars go by with my husband." Actually, she and her husband, Wayne, also retired, are planning to travel, starting with a trip to Florida and then a vacation along the Northwest Coast.50 Years AgoWhen Tom Phillips, 23, returns to Argentina, Newfoundland, for the third time next week, he'll be taking his wife, Suzanne, and two little sons, Tommy and Kelly, along. Argentina, where the Phillips family will live for the next 14 months, is a tiny town, entirely surrounded by a military base, beautiful forests and rocky hills. It's 90 miles by dirt road to St. Johns, a city approximately the size of Lafayette. An alumnus of Akron High School and veteran of five years service in the Navy, Phillips will complete his tour of duty in April 1962.75 Years AgoKosciusko County's first annual table tennis tourney, sponsored by the Essig Sporting Goods Store, under direction of Raymond Essig, will get under full swing here when 49 contestants begin participation. Thirty-one participants represent the adult division. Fourteen players compose the high school division and four youngsters make up the grade school division. Silver and bronze medals, compliments of the Ward Jewelry Store, will go to the winners and runners-up in each division. The Essig Sporting Goods Store also will give prizes in the form of table tennis equipment.
Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer has appointed local attorney Scott Reust, of Rockhill Pinnick Attorneys LLP, as the next city attorney for the city, effective Jan. 1.
WINONA LAKE - New this year, redevelopment commissions must develop a spending plan by Dec. 1 for 2025, the Winona Lake Redevelopment Commission heard at its annual entity meeting Wednesday.
Warsaw Board of Zoning Appeals had one case on its agenda Monday night, but without the petitioner present nor the notifications of neighbors received by the Planning Department, the matter was tabled until the Feb. 22 meeting.
House Republicans are determined to cut federal spending – except when the spending is on stuff they like, and then they quickly dispense with any misguided notions of frugality.