Bristol News

Choose a book by author Penelope Stokes to read, then come to enjoy impressions, opinions and treats.

Divorce Care Group, 6:30 p.m. every Monday at Crossroads Community Church, C.R. 17 at C.R. 18, Goshen.

The return of the Elkhart-based Indiana National Guard's 1538th Transportation Company from Iraq this week was a joyous occasion.

Once again the club is sponsoring a "Cutest Baby Contest" during the Bristol Homecoming Festival July 9-11. The baby must be between the ages of newborn to 24 months on July 11.

Feel like "clowning around?" Join Ronald McDonald at 12:30 today. The last-but-not-least of the Terrific Tuesdays in June, Ronald brings his unique magic and fun to BPL.

Photos of pets adopted from the Elkhart County Humane Society are needed to form a a oereunion collagea to be displayed year-round at the animal shelter in Bristol.

The Bristol Lions Club is holding its annual "Cutest Baby Contest" July 9-11, during the Bristol Homecoming.

Members met May 26 at Bea Blosser's home, hosting the Happy Hoosiers Home Extension Club for a lunch.

Elkhart County authorities remained on the scene of a meth lab in a neighborhood near Bristol early Wednesday.

56900 block of Mark Manor Drive, Elkhart, stolen: red 1997 Ford Windstar, June 12.

Jessica Crumpler of Elkhart, Ind., has been accepted to Sullivan University for the 2009 academic year.

A Bristol woman hit a tree Wednesday afternoon after falling asleep at the wheel.

Admission to the museum is free on Sundays. * Asher B. Durand, the son of a watchmaker and silversmith who became a landscape painter with the Hudson River School, will be the subject of a presentation by museum curator Brian Byrn during the Noontime Talk today from 12:20 to 1 p.m. Free to the public.

ITa TMS FESTIVAL TIME: Rhapsody in Green blooms Friday at Island, Bicentennial and Lundquist parks in downtown Elkhart.

Admission to the museum is free on Sundays. * Assistant Curator Stacy Jordan will present a PowerPoint lecture about the early romantic landscape painter Thomas Cole during the Noontime Talk today from 12:20 to 1 p.m. Free to the public.

* "Once Upon a Mattress" opened Tuesday and runs concurrently with "Plain and Fancy" through July 12.

"Hats! The Musical," based on the women of the Red Hats Society, debuts at the Bristol Opera House Friday for a three-weekend run presented by Elkhart Civic Theatre.

Outside the door of an Elkhart company, reads the quote, "If you want to do something good, go somewhere else.

BRISTOL LIBRARY 505 W. Vistula St., P.O. Box 789, 848-7458, Fax 848-4391, www.youseemore.com/bristolwash Sign up for the free children's, teens and adult summer reading programs.

The 13th Garden Tour of the Michiana Master Gardeners Association will be in the Middlebury area July 11, with homeowners opening their gardens from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tour's 10 garden locations include Krider Gardens and the NIPSCO arboretum.