Local & State News

 05/19/14 March Madness may be over, but bracket fever continues in Marshall County with the launch of a Burger Wars Bracket to find the best place to get a burger in the county as voted on by customers. Eight Marshall County restaurants ... Read more...

05/19/14 INDIANAPOLIS – If you own a phone chances are you have received a call from an automated voice asking you to press “1” for a service you don’t want or need. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said while these calls are ... Read more...

05/19/14 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (IN-02) released the following statement after the Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs Robert Petzel announced his resignation this afternoon: “On ... Read more...

05/19/14 Washington, D.C. – Senators Joe Donnelly and Dan Coats today gave an update regarding the process for filling the upcoming vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.  Earlier this year, Judge Sarah ... Read more...

05/19/14 Indiana has almost 150 million ash trees, and they are dying by the thousands, costing Hoosiers millions and marring the landscape. The killer is tiny, elusive and resilient. The emerald ash borer beetle, EAB for short, can fly, ... Read more...

05/19/14 If you are renting, it is important to know your rights as a tenant.  Indiana’s landlord/tenant law provides protection to Hoosiers.  Knowing your rights from the beginning can help one avoid any unnecessary problems in the ... Read more...

Washington Discovery Academy’s Kindergarten class and Earthworks made a healthy granola bar called a “Discovery Bar” as part of their Healthy Garden project.  They will be selling these bars this Saturday, May 17th at ... Read more...

Late last year the rumors started going around town about giant blueberries popping up as art along the sidewalks in Plymouth.  A group has worked all winter to bring the 3 foot blueberries to the community selling a half of dozen of them ... Read more...

Late last week Walsh and Kelly completed their paving project on LaPorte and Garro Streets in the area of River Park Square and over the weekend a water main ruptured causing water to bubble up through the new pavement.  Utility ... Read more...

To keep our students and staff safe, the Plymouth Community School Corporation is implementing the V-Soft Raptor visitor management system (commonly called Raptor). Raptor enables schools to produce visitor badges and electronically check ... Read more...

PLYMOUTH – City of Plymouth residents began receiving their annual drinking water consumer confidence report and once again it’s good news. Yearly the city Water Department publishes a report regulated by the Indiana Department of ... Read more...

Last year, there were runners from four states involved in the Pride of Plymouth Bands Zombie Chase 5K!  The 5K run/walk course is set to go through Centennial Park’s paved and unpaved trails taking the participants through multiple ... Read more...

This week members of the Marshall County Council gave Wes Burden head of the County Health Department permission to begin the process to replace an employee.  Jerry Fussell, Environmentalist for the county has taken another position and ... Read more...

  Department Heads and several volunteers from Miller’s Senior Living Community in Plymouth attended the 18th Annual REAL Services Age of Excellence Awards banquet held at South Bend’s Century Center Thursday, May 8th.  The Age ... Read more...

Nello Corporation, Inc., a global designer and fabricator of galvanized steel towers and poles, announced plans today to relocate its Fort Worth, Texas operations to Indiana, creating up to 639 new jobs by 2023. The South ... Read more...

 This Saturday’s Plymouth Farmers’ Market (PFM) will feature music by the Webster and Menominee Elementary Schools under the direction of Bob Pickell at 9 a.m.   Also planned is the reveal of the giant blueberry sculptures that will ... Read more...

Plymouth VFW Post 1162 at 606 Lake Avenue in Plymouth will host a Shine and Show Car Show this Saturday.  If you have pride in your ride, antique, custom, sport, car, truck, or bike….bring it to Post 1162 for a meet and greet.  ... Read more...

This picture of Triton Elementary School students shows those students who had the Most Improved Reading Composite Score from the middle of this school year to the end of the year: Seated:  Avery Viers (kindergarten), Skylee Schuh (grade ... Read more...

The Earl Gaerte Classic will be one to remember this Saturday, May 17 at Plymouth Speedway. Not only will the Winged Outlaw Sprints on Dirt (SOD) Series drivers be racing their Winged Sprints, they will welcome 2001 World of Outlaws ... Read more...

On Wednesday May 14, at about 4:45 a.m. Officer Nick Young, of the Bremen Police Department, was on regular patrol in the area of State Road 311 and State Road 106 in Bremen when he observed a vehicle traveling southbound on State Road ... Read more...