Wakarusa News

St. Joseph County honored the top four police officers on its DUI Taskforce on Wednesday.

Indiana Conservation officers are investigating a drowning that occurred on June 27, 2009 at approximately 5:36 pm at Cass Lake, which is located in Northwest LaGrange County, northwest of Shipshewana, Indiana.

Authorities said a 3-year-old girl and a 41-year-old woman died in separate drownings over the weekend in northern Indiana's LaGrange County.

A Goshen teen was cited for failure to yield the right of way at an intersection late Sunday morning after a two-car collision at County Road 3 and County Road 36 in Elkhart County.

A 3-year-old girl drowned Saturday in a northwestern LaGrange County lake, according to Indiana Conservation Officers.

In a short claims meeting Monday, Elkhart County Commissioners approved an amendment to an agreement establishing animal control services for the town of Middlebury for the second half of 2009.

At approximately 2 p.m. Friday, Goshen resident John Adomitis was riding a motorcycle eastbound on C.R. 40, east of Ind.

Elkhart County's grant writer, Kris Krueger, starts each morning in the Elkhart County commissioners office checking out what new stimulus money has been released that day, according to county administrator Tom Byers.

The federal stimulus package was designed to create jobs and, as the name implies, stimulate the economy.

A continuing drop in enrollment at Wa-Nee Community Schools has led to the lay-offs of three elementary school teachers.

Part of the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds has seen better days. "Rotary Boulevard is in desperate need of being upgraded," said Fair President Gale Gerber at Wednesday's county Fair Board meeting.

The fifth Wakarusa Indiana Bluegrass Festival is set for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the Festival Ground, 66425 Ind.

Wakarusa Town Council members tabled a request from a property owner seeking approval for a new development, citing the need for a timeline of clean-up of the property.

Tickets are $43 each. * Christian music artists Sandy Patty and Dallas Holm perform at 2 and 7 p.m. June 13.

The recession has dealt another blow to Elkhart as about 250 more people will officially receive notice today that they'll be unemployed within 60 days.

Sure, it won't be Cedar Point, but the new Wakarusa playground will still be a unique place to play.

Has Elkhart's battered economy hit bottom or maybe even turned the corner? At least one economist and a city business leader think it has.

Electric Motors Corp. now says it may start building prototypes of its electric and hybrid vehicles as early as this fall.

Adam Freymiller correctly spells 'insecticide' during an early round of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.

Dozens of eighth-graders huddled around Adam Freymiller on Thursday to sign his yearbook.