Ossian News

While most of Wells County was ringing in the New Year holiday, area firefighters were practicing their live firefighting techniques in a steel trailer designed to burn over and over again.

An Ossian woman was arrested in the alleged stabbing of her husband. Ossian police officers arrested April Bennett after they were called to a stabbing at a home on Cedar Court Thursday afternoon.

A Bittersweet solution has been reached in Ossian. Ossian Town Manager Luann Martin informed the members of the Ossian Stormwater Board Wednesday night that a solution to the vexing drainage problems at the east end of Bittersweet Lane in Rose Ann Heights appears to have been found a ' and it was within view all along.

Government offices in Wells County, with one exception, will be closed Thursday and Friday for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

When: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today - emergency medical workers are welcome What: H1N1 injection vaccine Who: Pregnant women; ages 6 months to 18 years; caregivers of infants younger than 6 months; ages 25 to 64 with chronic health conditions What: H1N1 nasal spray Who: Healthy people ages 2 to 24 years; people up to age 49 who care for infants ...

An H1N1 flu clinic has been scheduled in Wells County this week. There will be a clinic from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at New Hope Lutheran Church, 8824 North Indiana 1 in Ossian, county officials said in an e-mail. No appointment is necessary, and the vaccine will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.

Joyce Rinehart of Ossian was shocked when she heard a teenager had been shot and killed near her rural northern Wells County home Wednesday night.

A Uniondale man is dead following a shooting in Wells County Wednesday night. The shooting happened just after 8 p.m. near the intersection of 800 N. and 100 W. just west of Ossian.

A Portland, Indiana man already jailed in Wells County now faces seventeen additional charges in Allen County.

A man accused of ramming the Wells County sheriff's police cruiser during an August drug-fueled crime spree is now charged with robbing and raping an Allen County woman the same day.

Several pop machines from Markle to Petroleum; Uniondale to Ossian were broken into over the weekend, allowing thieves to make off with an undetermined amount of cash.

A problem with ponding water at Jefferson Street and Bittersweet Lane in Rose Ann Heights had the Ossian Stormwater Board searching for a solution at the boarda s regular meeting Wednesday night.

The BZA turned down an application for current office space in the Ossian Industrial park to be used as a residence.

By RUTH STANLEY Managing Editor Nobody lost a job, but residents of Columbia City will have to drive a little farther to purchase a used car from a Kelley's Superstore.

They arrested Ronnie Lee Savage from Fort Wayne Friday. Police began getting tips about a suspect following the release of video images caught on the store's surveillance camera.

The Indiana Soybean Alliance Board of Directors will have two new members in January.

Jeff McCall's world was knocked off its axle the day after Christmas in 2007. That's when the Wells County man discovered his production-supervisor position at Ossian Smoked Meats was eliminated.

OSSIAN, Ind. a ' Police in Ossian need your help identifying a man they say stole from a hardware store.

OSSIAN, Ind. a ' Police in Ossian need your help identifying a man they say stole from a hardware store.

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