Thoughts of two tournaments were on my mind during my Friday afternoon lunch hour: the College Football Playoff (CFP), and the IHSAA boys’ basketball sectionals.

The first thing you need to determine is what to keep. Next, you need to decide how long to keep them. Third, you need a system for keeping them organized.

What makes a quality place to live? Living within proximity to where you work? Natural resources and amenities? Family? The answer for many of us is likely a combination of “all of the above” and more. But regardless of our nuanced want lists, if there’s not enough housing available in a community, it limits opportunities and is certainly a barrier for attracting new people.

The day I was sworn in as your new mayor I concluded a short “thank you & looking forward to serving” speech with an approach I wanted everyone – starting with me – to seriously consider as we began the new year. Call it a reminder, a changed mindset, a new year resolution or a “motto” for each of us to think about before stepping out of our front door each morning:

His name was Randy. Mayberry had Otis on the Andy Griffith show, Warsaw had Randy Walgamuth.

All-star games stink.

I attended, for the first time, the fourth annual We Are Tigers auction Thursday evening. I’ve had schedule conflicts in prior years, and an unexpected opening in my calendar afforded Shawna and me some time to attend.

In February, you’ll turn your attention to gathering your tax documents.

I feel very unfocused this week. It happens almost every year at about this time. There are lots of reasons for it, and I won’t bore you with the details. Why it matters to you is that you get a column with several different topics today.

Depeche Mode’s album (remember those) Violator was released in 1990, and one song – Enjoy The Silence - is playing in my head.

Even if we didn’t have a single calendar in our office, we would know when February came around each year because of the number of calls we get from clients who are anxious to get their tax documents so they can get their taxes done. And rightly so!

From time to time, people will stop me and ask for advice on how to be successful in the sports realm.

Recent Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) enrollment indicates Warsaw will organically land in IHSAA Football Class 5A in the 2024 football season.

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I feel like it’s never a bad idea to start out a column with a little bit of honesty. I’ll start this week’s off with a confession. I’ve blown off starting to write this for as long as I could. Not for your standard procrastination reasons, but because this is the last Can Connor Cover? of the season and I’m not quite ready to say goodbye.

One of the charms of the week leading up to the Super Bowl is hearing players talk about all of the distractions they’ve had to deal with before they play in the biggest game of their lives.

The only two sunny mornings we had in quite a while in Warsaw were February 1 and February 2, the latter being Groundhog Day. With all the miserable variations of winter’s climatic offerings, it’s only fitting the sun would be out long enough for a corpulent rodent to see its shadow yesterday. Whether there will be six more weeks or four more weeks of winter, February offers a few things to take us out of the winter blahs.

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Stories of entrepreneurship and innovation are alive and well here in Kosciusko County.

It happens every winter.

This week, already, attrition in scholastic sports has begun. The swimmers and divers started earlier this week, the wrestlers will battle in sectionals this week, and girls’ basketball sectionals begin Tuesday.

Having a financial strategy that includes an asset allocation plan, may help you to stay on track even as markets change rapidly.

Well, we have finally made it. This weekend boasts the last day where multiple National Football League games will be played until September. Take it all in this weekend people, it’s almost gone.

As soon as the brackets for the girls state basketball tournament came out, a friend of mine sent me a simple but pointed message.

The Warsaw Lady Tigers basketball squad is closing out its regular season, heading into its final three games at 11-7 overall and 5-0 in the Northern Lake Conference (NLC).