Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
It was over 10 minutes after it began - Chris Breault, a sixth-grader at Eisenhower Elementary School, was crowned the 1999 Kosciusko County Spelling Bee champion.
Three sisters, Althea (Iden) Hamlin, Amy (Iden) Knepper and Avis (Iden) Mason accepted a Hoosier Homestead Award from Indiana Lt. Gov. John Mutz at a ceremony in Indianapolis. The three sisters own a farm in Etna Green that has belonged to the same family since 1864.
An Akron mother, Helen Utter, and two children are being schooled on Indiana University campus. Utter, a prominent Akron business woman, has enrolled for her senior year in the school of business at the university. Her 9-year-old daughter, Lynne, is a student at the university grade school, and her son, Channing, is attending the school of business there.
Spring is here! A four-foot blue racer snake was killed a few days ago by Jake Widman, who lives east of Warsaw on Road 30. Widman spied the reptile sunning itself recently in a woods on the Roy O. Bibler farm adjoining Widman's. Jake is a little bit superstitious when it come to snakes.
