(ANGOLA) - Steuben County Commissioners have scheduled what is being called an "Emergency Meeting" for Friday morning. It is scheduled to start at 11:30am in the Commissioners room at the Steuben County Community Center. Commission Chair Ron Smith says the meeting has been called to deal with a personnel matter. Commissioners conducted an executive session on the matter last Friday. Further details are not being released at this time.
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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

(ANGOLA) - Officials for Lakeland Nursing Center say all of their residents who were displaced by a fire on June 7th are expected to be back in the facility by the weekend and they should be back to full operations on Monday. A total of 65 residents had to be evacuated when a fire that was called electrical in nature by the Angola Fire Department broke out in the attic of the facility. It took firefighters about a half hour to get it under control. A final estimate on the damage has not been figured up yet. All of those evacuated went to other locations around Angola until other nursing facility housing could be found. No injuries were reported during the evacuation which involved the assistance of numerous individuals.
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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

(UNDATED) - Officials at Trine University and Ivy Tech have announced a new transfer agreement program that will allow students to earn bachelor degrees for less than at any four year Indiana college. The partnership creates two paths from an associate degree to a bachelor's degree. What's called the 3 + 1 pathway allows students to attend Ivy Tech for their first three years and then go to Trine for their senior year. The 2 + 2 pathway will allow students to go to Ivy Tech for their freshman and sophomore years and then attend Trine for their final two years. Trine will reduce tuition by $100 per credit hour for Ivy Tech graduates maintaining a GPA of at least 3.0. Ivy Tech students accepting invitational into Phi Theta Kappa can also get a $125 discount per credit hour at Trine.
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(BRUSKY PRAIRIE) - The Prairie Heights School Board approved the appointment of Jeff Reed as the districts Assistant Superintendent on Monday night. Back in January, the board approved a recommendation from Superintendent Alan Middleton to have Reed and Vicki Walker share the assisting superintendent and middle school principal duties for the second semester. That allowed Reed to train and learn about the assistant superintendent duties from Walker who in turn was appointed on Monday night by the school board as the Middle School principal.
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

 

(ANGOLA) - Tickets for Dancing With the Stars, which is being put on by the Go Angola Downtown Alliance, are now on sale at various locations. Tickets for $20 per person can be purchased at The Hair Center, Sutton's Deli, A Wild Hare Antiques, Lake Shore Design Center, the Elks Lodge and Shabby Chic. Dancing With the Stars will take place on June 28th at the Angola Elks Lodge. Dinner will be served at 6:00 followed by the Dancing with the Stars competition featuring local celebrities and then music and dancing with Elements until midnight.
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(ANGOLA) - M and C Trenching of Fremont had the lowest of three bids that were opened during Mondays Steuben County Commissioners meeting for the demolition of a run down Crooked Lake property. M and C Trenching  submitted a bid of just over $10,600 for the tear down of the home at 720 Lane 274. Commissioners awarded the bid contingent upon its approval by County Plan Director Frank Charlton. He said the property was bought with the hopes it would be flipped but that has not happened. Charlton said nothing has been done for the last six months. Under the county's Unsafe Building Ordinance, the demolition of the project is put up for bids and a lein is then placed on the property. Pictures taken by the Steuben County Plan Office in early May showed the house had rotting wood and there's garbage strewn throughout the interior.
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(KENDALLVILLE) - A 5-year-old boy who was pulled from Kendallville's Bixler Lake passed away Sunday at Parkview Regional Medical Center. The Allen County Coroners Office identified the victim as Dominic Slone-Lehman of Cromwell. Indiana Conservation Officers say lifeguards at the park came up one person short during a head count shortly before 5:00pm on Saturday. At about the same time, the boys father reported him as missing. The youngster was then found floating in about five feet of water. Lifeguards and medics performed CPR on him before he was rushed to Parkview Noble Hospital. He was then flown to Parkview Regional where he later died. The Indiana D.N.R. and Kendallville Police both investigated the incident. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(FORT WAYNE) - A Ligonier woman entered a guilty plea in a federal drug case this week in U.S. District Court. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 27-year-old Glenda Brickey of Ligonier pled guilty before Magistrate Judge Roger Cosbey to the felony offense of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The charge was filed in March following an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency and Ligonier Police.
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(ANGOLA) - Four months after the doors first opened, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Friday for the new Northeastern Center outpatient office on Intertech Drive in Angola. The new 9,000 square foot facility replaces the one that was being used on Hoosier Drive. Officials at the Northeastern Center say they have 180 employees in the four counties they serve including 20 in Steuben County. The Northeastern Center offers an inpatient mental health hospital in DeKalb County. They also have outpatient and residential mental health facilities in DeKalb, Steuben, LaGrange and Noble Counties.
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(JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP) - Two men were flown out following a crash in Williams County on Friday afternoon. The Ohio Highway Patrol reports a car driven by 23-year-old Matthew Maneval of Pioneer was slowing to turn right on State Route 15 north of County Road H at about 2:15pm when it was struck from behind by a pickup truck driven by 22-year-old Jesse Sims of Bryan. Maneval's vehicle was then pushed into the path of a car driven by 33-year-old Jonathan Wade of Montpelier. Troopers say 39-year-old David Weirich was struck by flying debris. Maneval was flown by the Samaritan Helicopter to a hospital in Toledo while Promedica Air flew Wade to Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne. The Highway Patrol says the accident is still under investigation. They were assisted by Williams County E.M.S. and Bryan firefighters.
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(ASHLEY) - A Michigan woman was flown out with what were described as critical injuries late Friday afternoon after her car collided head on with a semi on I-69 just south of Ashley. The DeKalb County Sheriffs Department says the accident happened just south of the 339 mile marker at about 4:40pm when a northbound car driven by 76-year-old Marian Randall of Bloomfield, Michigan veered off the interstate, went through the median and entered the southbound lanes where it was struck by the semi driven by James Gochis of Saline, Michigan. Randall was flown to Parkview Regional Medical Center where the Sheriffs Department says she was in critical condition as of late Friday night. Gochis was taken to DeKalb Health where he was treated and released for a right knee contusion and a lower back strain. The Sheriffs Department got assistance from DeKalb County E.M.S., Ashley firefighters, Indiana State Police, the Waterloo Marshal's Office and the Steuben County Sheriffs Department. The interstate was shut down for over three hours during the accident investigation.
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(ANGOLA) - The city of Angola has lost out on million of dollars in state grants as it was not chosen as an Indiana Stellar Community. WBIW Radio in Bedford and WLFI-TV in Lafayette reported Friday night that the Stellar Community Committee picked Bedford and Richmond as this years winners. They are expected to get over $18 million for community improvement projects. This was Bedford's third try for Indiana Stellar Community Funding. There were six finalists for the funding. The committee made Angola their first stop on May 7th. The other finalists who lost out were Frankfort, Petersburg and Wabash. The grants are awarded as part of a joint effort involving the Office of Community and Rural Affairs, the state Housing and Community Development Authority and the Department of Transportation.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012  3:26:53 PM

 

    MIDDLEBURY - A rash of fires just outside Middlebury early Wednesday morning is being investigated as arson.
    Middlebury firefighters were called just after 4 a-m to a vehicle fire at 53336 Palmetto Drive just north of the city limits.
    About 45 minutes later they were called to 53245 Hilltop Drive where a shed was on fire.
    A third fire call came in 50 minutes after that reporting a house fire at 53162 Palmetto.
    The Elkhart County Sheriff's Department, Middlebury Police and the State Fire Marshal are investigating the blazes.
    Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's department.