WINONA LAKE – A Sunday Night Community Hymnsing, free and open to all, will be held in the chapel of Grace Retirement Village in Winona Lake, on Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. with the prelude beginning at 5:45 p.m.

SYRACUSE – Syracuse Boy Scout Troop 728 will hold a Back-to-Scouts Round-Up for returning scouts and an information night for those interested in becoming a Boy Scouts 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Scout Lodge and Woods, 10433 E. CR 500, a few miles south of Syracuse.

TIPPECANOE — Visitors from across the region gathered at Potawatomi Wildlife Park last week for an evening under the park’s dark skies to experience the Perseid Meteor Shower.

MISHAWAKA – Tuesday, Congressman Rudy Yakym (IN-02) announced he will host a Service Academy Night on Sept. 9 for perspective Service Academy nominees.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation is gearing up for one of their fundraisers of the year — Drive 4 Your Community, sponsored by Kerlin Ford Motors in Silver Lake.

American Legion Band of Fort Wayne will perform as part of the city of Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department Summer Concert Series from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Central Park Plaza, 225 E. Fort Wayne St., Warsaw.

PIERCETON - A town manager and utility superintendent were named Monday during a special meeting of the Pierceton Town Council.

LARWILL - Whitko Community School Board was presented with an award, held the first public bond hearing and heard reports from faculty and staff during a meeting on Monday, Aug. 17.

AKRON - Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation Board of Trustees heard about funding for a new middle school robotics program and recognized two employees Monday, Aug. 17.

CLAYPOOL – Bryon Wells was appointed Monday to the vacant Clay Township Advisory Board position, but he will not be on the ballot during the November general election.

While the Warsaw Common Council still has to vote on the proposed 2027 budgets presented to them on Monday, Aug. 3 and Aug. 17, council members praised the city department heads Monday after the last half of the budgets were presented.

On the first five-hour day Monday of the two days of budget hearings for county departments, the Kosciusko County Council cut $1 million from the Commissioners’ $6 million Economic Development Income Tax (EDIT) fund for infrastructure and major improvements.

County Council is the purse strings of county government, and at their meeting Monday for 2027 department budgets they were pulling on those strings to tighten budgets as much as they could.

Warsaw Redevelopment Commission on Monday approved a change order for Abonmarche for the Millworks streetscape.

CARES, along with community partners Fellowship Missions, Allendale Treatment, Bowen Health and the Kosciusko County LOSS (Local Outreach for Suicide Survivors) Team, will host Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at The Gathering Place, 123 S. Buffalo St., Warsaw.

As summer winds down, Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office is partnering with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) to increase patrols and conduct sobriety checkpoints as part of the annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over national enforcement campaign, supported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Anticipation is sky-high for Grace’s women’s soccer team as they approach the start of the 2026 campaign.

One driver is dead after a three semi-tractor-trailer collision Sunday night in Washington Township.

Memories were evoked and shared at Baker Boy’s Club/Baker Youth Club’s 100th birthday celebration on Saturday.

WASHINGTON - FEMA announced Saturday that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Indiana to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding beginning on Aug. 11, 2026, and continuing.

Two Illinois men were arrested Friday in Milford on warrants.

AKRON — Beaver Dam Community Church's Wheels on Fire-Cancer Crusaders' job from God "is to love, to help and to cherish one another," said Wheels on Fire member Terry Randall.

FORT WAYNE – Parkview Health has been named to the Forbes 2026 list of America’s Best Employers by State, ranking No. 29 out of 75 companies in Indiana.

Lake City Bank welcomed Mariana Reyes as vice president, community reinvestment officer.

FORT WAYNE – Four Parkview Hospitals were recently recognized for dedication to excellent stroke care through the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines program.