Sunday was a day I won’t ever forget.

Tax Day is almost here. For a lot of families, that used to mean anxiety: scrambling for documents, bracing for a bill, or hoping the refund was enough to matter. This year is different.

Shortly after the Beyer brothers opened their Spring Fountain Park amusement and conference center to the public, groups from the Brethren church tradition began meeting annually in Winona Lake for conventions.

Spring Break last weekend launched in stride with the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball Final Four last weekend.

We believe managing your finances effectively is essential for long-term financial health and stability. However, many people unknowingly engage in habits that may hinder their financial well-being. By identifying and addressing these bad money habits, you may be able to gain control of your finances and work towards a more secure future. Here are 10 common bad money habits to kick.

Last week, Jaden Ivey was released by the Bulls for what the team described as conduct “detrimental to the team.”

Billy Sunday, the famed baseball evangelist who moved to Winona Lake in 1911, reached 100 million people in his evangelistic crusades. But during the first 20 years of the 1900s, Sunday was also an ardent crusader against alcohol.

Each Monday, Fox Sports’s Colin Cowherd has a segment at the start of his second hour named, “Where Colin Was Right, Where Colin Was Wrong.”

We all experience the death of friends and family members in our lives. In financial planning, we often find ourselves involved in the aftermath of those deaths. If the deceased planned their estate before their death, it usually makes it easier on the survivors.

In the book of Revelations even “no mores” are listed in relation to eternity and the new heaven and new earth coming one day.

Purdue’s basketball season ended with a West Regional Final loss to top-seeded Arizona Saturday night.

One of the distinguishing factors in the landscape of Winona Lake is the canal, which was dredged in 1902. The original idea of dredging a canal came from John Thorpe of Chicago, a landscape artist of note.

The Triton Trojans boys’ basketball team is headed to their fifth state title contest since winning the Class 1A championship on their first try in 2008. It’s easy to forget the 2008 champs were the first of four squads altogether making trips to Indianapolis in late March.

The weather here has been crazy this week. I think we have experienced all four seasons in just a few days. Regardless of the weather, spring officially started this week, and spring here in Kosciusko County sometimes brings severe weather. Natural disasters and other catastrophes could require you to leave your home with little or no notice. That is why we believe every family should prepare what we call an “evacuation box.”

I get a lot of questions from you all during the course of a normal week, and I think some of them are questions more people want to ask but don’t.

Every evangelist has a music man — a partner who leads the choir, warms up the crowd with congregational singing, and sometimes plays an instrument. For evangelist Billy Sunday, that person was Homer Rodeheaver. And Rody’s chosen instrument was the slide trombone.

The morning begins with some non-sports thoughts.

The market has been a bit chaotic lately as it digests the geopolitical events of the last few weeks. Volatility is back, not just for stocks but for oil, gold and crypto too. We believe all of this has renewed inflation fears, even as evidence mounts that the economy is slowing.

One of the difficult things about sports is also the best thing about it.

The subtitle of the centennial history of the Town of Winona Lake uses the words “Third Wave Rising.”

We are already at the preseason scrimmage portion of spring scholastic sports. Fans, parents, friends, and the athletes they’re supporting and cheering will begin regular season competition around the time the state boys’ basketball finals take place at the end of this month.

A common topic for this column and the Smart Money Management radio show is simple portfolio building and the importance of having a plan for managing your long-term investments, particularly your retirement accounts.

There are things in life that we know are coming, and we still are not and cannot be prepared enough to experience them anyway.

The town of Winona Lake is blessed with many good churches, but the oldest is Good Shepherd Church, located immediately behind Westminster Hall with the church entrance on College Avenue.

I was wondering why I haven’t been gravitating to the NBA as much as I had among several post-COVID seasons.