With the Indiana Legislature’s session this year being a short one and non-fiscal, state Reps. David Abbott and Craig Snow and Sen. Ryan Mishler talked Friday about what they were doing down at the statehouse.

Over the 50 consecutive years that Terry Sims has been a teacher at Madison Elementary School, he estimates he taught around 4,000 students.

Updates on the two Kosciusko County Department of Parks and Recreation projects were provided by board members at their meeting Thursday.

SYRACUSE - The Lakeside, formerly KellyJae's, hosted a ribbon-cutting and open house Wednesday evening as a thank-you to the community for its support.

INDIANAPOLIS - To help Indiana schools celebrate Earth Day 2024, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) is offering free hands-on classroom presentations to elementary students across the state.

NORTH MANCHESTER - Manchester University offers more than a dozen presentations in its Values, Ideas and the Arts (VIA) series for spring 2024.

NORTH MANCHESTER – Manchester University's annual Science Olympiad Invitational expects to draw hundreds of middle and high school students to the North Manchester campus.

Every American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollar the county has must be allocated by the end of 2024 and spent by 2026.

With Fellowship Missions closing Friday on the building at 123 S. Buffalo St., Warsaw, Warsaw City Councilwoman Diane Quance on Tuesday asked the shelter’s executive director and co-founder, Eric Lane, what he was going to be doing with it.

CLAYPOOL – At Tuesday night's meeting, the Claypool Town Council heard updates from Commonwealth Engineers and accepted a K21 Health Foundation grant agreement as the town prepares for wastewater treatment improvements.

The Kosciusko County Convention, Recreation and Visitors Commission approved providing funds for improvements to the county's Convention and Visitors Bureau building during its meeting Tuesday.

LAGRANGE COUNTY - A 16-year-old pedestrian from Nappanee was killed early Sunday morning after being hit by a vehicle.

A park at Gateway Grove is part of the Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department’s special projects plans for 2024.

The City-County Athletic Complex (CCAC) and The Salvation Army will receive American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds from the city of Warsaw, but only after the Common Council approves a new purchasing agent ordinance in February.

A new county health officer was approved by the Kosciusko County Commissioners at their meeting Tuesday.

An Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam is the January 2024 Kosciusko County Veteran of the Month.

BURKET — The Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. has a new director of communications, marketing and grants.

Parkview Kosciusko Hospital is now open to serve patients in Warsaw and the surrounding community.

As of Jan. 4, Kosciusko County is in compliance with the Indiana state law that requires all of the county’s voting machines to be equipped with a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), County Clerk Ann Torpy told the county commissioners Tuesday.

After getting approval from the Kosciusko County Commissioners Tuesday and the County Council Thursday, the Sheriff’s Office will be applying for two grants for the Community Recovery Program (CRP) totaling around $1 million.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced Tuesday that applications are being accepted for the 2024 Indiana Educator Fellowship for Creative Teaching.

SYRACUSE - Chautauqua-Wawasee is bringing the Purdue Varsity Glee Club back to Syracuse on March 1 for their only performance in northeastern Indiana during the first half of 2024.

WINONA LAKE — Grace College and Mission Point Community Church invite all community members to participate in the 13th annual Supermarket Sweep on Jan. 31 at Kroger, 2211 E. Center St., Warsaw.

SIDNEY — Sidney is continuing to work on getting part-time police help.

All applications for the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club Essay Contest need to be returned to Shari Benyousky at juxtapaused@gmail.com by Feb. 1.