Goshen News

The 2010-11 Goshen Community Schools school year will begin sometime between Aug.

Key action: Approved the renewing of an agreement to have the Humane Society of Elkhart County provide animal-control services and shelter space for the city.

Initial efforts for a Goshen community center are moving forward. According to Goshen Community Center Board member Bill Rieth, speaking at the City Council's meeting Tuesday evening, the total cost for development of a business plan and completion of a feasibility study, a conceptual design and site assessments will be between $70,000 and $80,000.

Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. Location: Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the concert.

This year Goshen College's Management Development Program offers a three-week mid-winter "Lunch and Learn" series targeted to administrative support staff looking to improve work habits and the work environment through lunchtime seminars in Goshen piloted by experienced community leaders.

Two Goshen residents arrested in connection with meth lab. Jennifer McClean, 31, and Scottie Benton, 36, were arrested last night in Goshen on preliminary felony charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and maintaining a common nuisance, according to an Elkhart County Sheriffa s report.

A car made its own drive-through at a restaurant in Goshen Sunday when the driver mixed up the pedals.

Another bike path segment is in the works that would connect with a path being installed as part of the ongoing Six Span Bridge upgrade.

Here's a look at the topics that came up at Tuesday night's Goshen City Council meeting.

Fourteen doctors and nurses from South Bend and Mishawaka hospitals departed for Haiti on Tuesday afternoon from Goshen and South Bend airports to help the victims of the Jan.

A Goshen family is counting their blessings after a scare at their new house. The introduction to their new neighborhood came with a visit from the Elkhart bomb squad.

Rob Kaminski picked the wrong chair for a mid-afternoon meal at Goshen's Panera Bread Sunday.

No one was seriously injured Sunday when a vehicle went through the front window of a Panera Bread store in Goshen.

The City of Goshen and Goshen Community Schools are ready to fund a study to see if it would make sense to build a community center.

Many cities in Elkhart county are continuing to feel the impact of the recession and Goshen is no exception.

Elkhart County dispatch said a business in Goshen caught fire late Friday night.

A church is a place where people can connect through religion, and minister Yvonne Riege sees potential for structures beyond pew-lined chapels.

Goshen once again came under the eye of the nation Thursday as part of a CNN feature on the local economy headed by Goshen's own Kate Bolduan.

THE GOSHEN NEWS Elkhart police arrested a man on a charge of armed robbery after he was reportedly seen running from a convenience store about 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Ideas for a community natatorium have grown and the project is making a little progress, though it has a long way to go.