Local & State News

Young Discusses China’s Economic Coercion During CSIS Event

Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks during an event yesterday hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) focused on countering China’s economic ... Read more...

Senator Braun leads bipartisan coalition to safeguard American food exports

Wednesday, Senators Mike Braun, Tina Smith, Roger Wicker, and Chris Coons introduced The Safe American Food Exports (SAFE) Act. This first-time introduced bipartisan legislation is aimed to provide clear authority to the Animal and Plant ... Read more...

St. Joe Announces Closure of OB Dept at Hospital and OB/GYN Medical Office

Friday morning WTCA received three phone calls and a walk-in listener who said the Plymouth Hospital was closing the OB Department at the Hospital.  Earlier in the week we had heard that the OB/GYN medical office was also ... Read more...

City Redevelopment Commission Updates on READI Grant Project for Water Street Townhouses

City Attorney Sean Surrisi updated members of the Plymouth Redevelopment Commission Tuesday evening on the City’s $520,000 READI Grant for residential development in the 200 block of Water Street. This is a project that has been ... Read more...

County Unsafe Building Board Accpets Low Bid for Demolition of Boetsma Building in Culver

Thursday morning local attorney Jeannette Surrisi updated members of the Marshall County Unsafe Building Board on the former Boetsma Home Furnishing structure on Jefferson Street in Culver.  She suspects there was previous ... Read more...

Plymouth Schools to Hold Public Meeting on Redistricting March 28th at PHS

The four elementary schools in the Plymouth Community School Corporation have been working on a redistricting project. There are several reasons for the redistricting, one is to reduce the amount of time students are on the bus, to allow ... Read more...

County Commissioners Open Bids for Tractor Parts

Sealed bids were opened Monday during the County Commissioner’s meeting for two lots of tractor parts no longer needed at the Marshall County Highway Department. The Commissioners opened three bids for the two different lots of ... Read more...

“Meet the Bunny” Event at Martin’s Super Market Benefits M.C. Humane Society

After a two-year hiatus, all 20 Martin’s Super Markets locations in Indiana and Michigan will host a “Meet the Bunny” photo event. A donation of $5 per digital photo will be collected and proceeds will go to local non-profit ... Read more...

Opinion by Plymouth SJHS Administrator: Hospitals Pick Up the Tab for Government Underfunding of Healthcare

Hospitals are vital institutions for our communities. They are where we seek care when life puts a wrinkle in our world. Right now, hospitals in Indiana and across the country are facing unprecedented financial challenges including ... Read more...

Multiple Departments Battling Fire on Lincoln Highway in Plymouth

The Plymouth Fire Department requested assistance from other local departments in battling an intense fire at 14487 Lincoln Highway in Plymouth this afternoon. The business location is 574 Auto Sales and Chavez Body Shop. Argos and Culver ... Read more...

Braun to Biden: Don’t Wait, Release COVID Origin Intel Now

Monday night, President Joe Biden signed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 from U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), a bill requiring the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to any potential links ... Read more...

Senators Young, Smith Introduce Bill to Support Farmers, Conservation

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) re-introduced the Conservation and Innovative Climate Partnership Act to support farmers seeking to adopt ... Read more...

Could a Hampton Inn be Coming to Plymouth

Tuesday evening, March 21st the Plymouth Redevelopment Commission held its regular monthly meeting in the Council Chambers of City Hall.  City Attorney Sean Surrisi told members he anticipates advancing some documents for a hotel ... Read more...

Sheriff Given Approval to Replace 2 Totaled Vehicles with Council Additional

This week, Sheriff Matt Hassel told the County Commissioners the vehicle he ordered in August to replace a patrol vehicle totaled in the spring of 2022 is no longer in production at Ford and the order won’t be filled.  The Sheriff ... Read more...

County Police Arrest Portage Man for Attempted Auto Theft

In early March the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department received a complaint of attempted car theft from Fouad K. Liddawi, who owns property in the 20,000 block of U.S. 6. Unknown persons had gotten into a vehicle parked on ... Read more...

M.C. Health Department Offers FREE COVID Vaccination Clinic, Thursday, Friday and Saturday

The Marshall County Health Department will host a FREE COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic from Thursday, March 23rd through Saturday, March 25th.  This drive-thru clinic will be held at the LifePlex at 2855 Miller Drive in Plymouth from 10 ... Read more...

Marshall County Fiber celebrates 1000th Customer

Marshall County Fiber celebrated its 1000th customer on March 16.  The newly connected customers, Robert and Beverly Brown, were overjoyed to receive high-speed fiber Internet and phone service. “The service has been great,” said ... Read more...

County Plan Commission Meets Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

The Marshall County Plan Commission will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in the second-floor meeting room of the County Building.  There are only two requests for consideration.  Homer and Freda Miller are asking permit of split of ... Read more...

Marshall-Starke Special Olympics Basketball Teams Headed to State Tournaments

Marshall-Starke Special Olympics is currently winding down and finishing up its very first basketball season.  Basketball practices are held at Culver Community High School.  This year they have had two teams and a total of 14 ... Read more...

Updated: Pedestrian Struck on Michigan Road near 2A Road

Update: Marshall County Police provided a few more details on the vehicle-pedestrian accident that happened last Friday night on North Michigan Road near 2C Road, south of LaPaz.  Origional article: The driver of the vehicle was a ... Read more...