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INCIDENTS
County:
Tuesday, 4:03 p.m., 4700 East 500 North, Craigville. Caller reported harassment from male subject.
Tuesday, 9:00 p.m., 5800 North Lincoln Avenue, Uniondale. Civil issue regarding vehicle.
Tuesday, 11:31 p.m., 600 West and 900 South, Warren. Subject hit sheet metal in the roadway.
Bluffton hosted its annual tennis tournament over the weekend crowning champions in age groups and divisions for boys and girls.
Bluffton’s head boys’ tennis coach Robert Vanderkolk and girls’ head tennis coach Spencer Schwartz, along with assistants Hunter Cunningham and Ashlee Xayyachack, helped put together the event. Food trucks were available, and it was...
Here’s the Thing: My take on a few shorts, bits and pieces
Demons of Unrest
I am just finishing Erik Larson’s excellent book, The Demons of Unrest. This is a historical telling of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the runup to the beginning of the Civil War. The book demonstrates...
The Amish Cook: Gloria deals with a family tragedy multiple states away
“Yes, let’s do it… but then we’re going to have to wait until after they’ve left. Do you know what color paint they planned to use? Do they have the needed materials there?”
Though I wasn’t particularly eager to...
Homemaker’s picnic celebration
Members of the Extension Homemaker’s Jefferson Club celebrated with a picnic lunch at the home of Carol Baker on a recent Wednesday. Activity for the afternoon was a live auction to raise money for the coming year’s...
Time to Take a Devotional Break: A Headstone & a Legacy
Studying random headstones during a cemetery walk or simply scanning the obituary section of a newspaper can provide unique insights about the names listed in stone or print. However, without personal knowledge of a particular individual, each headstone or article shares only...
Here’s the Thing: Why do these things exist? It’s all a conspiracy.
Have you ever looked at a thing and wondered what in the HECK was the inventor thinking and WHO is behind this object that is causing you such distress?
I remember one fall day in the ’50s, my mother...
The Amish Cook: A neighbor’s good deed was a gift from God
Summer is in full swing. It’s not my favorite season, but I never would want to do without it. Just this afternoon, Joshua came running up to me with a fresh cucumber he picked for me. I took a bite off the...
Angekeep Journals: Mourning dove-ing at eye level
Every time a mourning dove landed on the grass below the oil sunflower seed feeders looking for spilled seed, an earlier memory focused. Was this one? Was that one? Were any of them one of the pair of mourning doves birthed at...
Dotting my i’s and crossing my t’s at the county fair
Spending time at the county fair each July has been something I have enjoyed doing since I first started working for The News-Banner some 25 years ago.
We try our best each summer to cover all aspects of the...
Angelkeep Journals: A post-4th political pedigree puzzlement
Reflecting on July 4th celebrations never included a question of “Should we grill,” but rather, “What shall we grill?” Something on the BBQ long ago became as Independence Day American as sparklers.
Perhaps sparklers and snakes rank as “old...
Swift’s life choices are fodder for attack. Don’t buy it.
I am not a Swiftie. I can’t name a single song by Taylor Swift besides “Shake it off.” But a recent Newsweek column about her life choices has me infuriated.
John MacGhlionn opined that Swift is not a good...
Revisiting childhood memories at the Salamonie
Recently, Sarah and I took the boys (her husband, Dustin, included) to the Salamonie. I missed them dearly and needed some sister time. Trudy and Rozlynn were supposed to go with us, but Trudy unfortunately got the plague. (A stomach bug. Same...
Enjoying the dog days of summer with two cool canines
Since we’re now in the dog days of summer — the 40-day period that lasts from July 3 to Aug. 11 — it seems only appropriate to use today’s space to write about the two 100-plus-pound pooches that make my wife and...
Can’t help it. Kate made me do it.
I may have found a new hero.
A number of weeks ago, Melba Edwards of Zanesville fame dropped off a 1963 yearbook of Lancaster Central High School and a few artifacts from the presidential campaign of Kathleen Tyson Heslop....
Chamber celebrates expansion of Perma-Column LLC in Ossian
The Wells County Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to announce the expansion of Perma-Column LLC in Ossian. The Chamber staff and ambassadors joined Perma-Column in celebrating this milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their facility located at 400 Carol Ann Lane, Ossian,...
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Thursday, July 18, 2024
Today’s news: Commissioners approve road conversion line-up; Royal Showmanship; 4-H fun; Bolyn featured...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Today’s news: BHMSD fills board vacancy, recognizes Holland’s service; Southern Wells considers designing...
Motive for attempted assassination of Donald Trump remains elusive
By MICHAEL BIESECKER,
ALANNA DURKIN RICHER,
Fort Wayne man arrested after Pokagon State Park shooting
Indiana Conservation Officers, the Steuben County Sheriff’s Department and Indiana State...
FSSA halts POWER Account contributions after federal ruling
By WHITNEY
DOWNARD
Indiana Capital...
Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have broad immunity from prosecution
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —...
Meet them in the ‘jungle’
When the Creative Arts Theater presents...
Here’s the Thing: Sometimes intent and event simply do not sync
For 70 consecutive years, Bob Skorjanc (81) has been attending the...
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