Local & State News

IMSTEA Super Mileage Challenge

05/11/11 Each year on a Sunday in April teams of students show up at the Indianapolis Airport at the Vincennes University Aviation Center for technical inspection of a years worth of planning and work. This is the starting of the Super ... Read more...

19th Annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Set for Saturday, May 14

05/11/11 The Nation’s largest one-day food drive will stocks shelves for the food pantry at the Neighborhood Center, Bread of Life Food Pantry and the food pantry at the Church of our Lord.  One can … and the community’s commitment ... Read more...

Yellow River Festival Adds Arts & Crafts Show and Sale

05/11/11  This year’s Yellow River Festival will feature the “River Arts & Crafts” Art Show & Sale, coordinated by the Arts Council of Marshall County.  The theme will be “River Arts & Crafts of 1850.” People will ... Read more...

Triton School Board Meeting

05/11/11 A member of the Triton Teacher’s Association appeared before the Triton School Board on May 9 asking that a contract for teachers be ratified before July 1, 2011. Anita Orcutt, negotiating chair person for the union, said she ... Read more...

Spring Plant Sale at Argos Library

05/11/11  The Friends of the Argos Public Library is having a Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, May 14th from 9:00 AM until noon.  A variety of plants will be for sale as well as baked goods.  Call the Argos Library at 892-5818 to donate ... Read more...

Argos 5th Graders, Biography Research Projects

05/11/11  Argos 5th Graders completed their research-based Biography Project.  The culminating activity was a living museum where each student made an illustrated signboard and presented facts about his subject to other students, ... Read more...

LJH Boys & Girls 2nd in Red Storm Relays

05/11/11  On Saturday, the Lincoln Junior High track teams hosted the 6th annual Red Storm Relays.  Teams competing were Bremen, Urey, Whitko, Warsaw Edgewood, Valparaiso Ben Franklin, and Huntington Crestwood.  Winning the girls’ ... Read more...

City Opens Quotes for Security Renovation Project at Fire House

05/10/11 Plymouth City Attorney Nelson Chipman opened quotes for the security renovation project at the Fire House during Monday night’s Board of Public Works and Safety meeting.  Three quotes were received; Hammer Enterprises from ... Read more...

County Council Begins 2012 Budget Process

05/10/11 Marshall County Council members started the 2012 budget process during their meeting on Monday.  Many department heads came before the council to preview the larger purchases and budget increases they anticipate next year. ... Read more...

Y.R.F. Seeks Artists & Crafters for Show and Sale

05/10/11 This year’s Yellow River Festival will feature the “River Arts & Crafts” Art Show & Sale, coordinated by the Arts Council of Marshall County. The theme will be “River Arts & Crafts of 1850.” People will have ... Read more...

Academies hosts living history event on May 14; ‘Drums Along the Maxinkuckee’ depicts 18th-century life

05/10/11 Eighteenth-century history will come to life May 14 along the shore  of Lake Maxinkuckee as Culver Academies host its seventh annual Living History Weekend. “Drums Along the Maxinkuckee” will allow visitors to step back in ... Read more...

Joe Diffie to Headline Entertainment at 2011 Blueberry Fesitval

05/10/11 The Marshall County Blueberry Festival is proud to announce their 2011 headliner. Country music singer Joe Diffie will entertain on the Michigan Street Stage on Saturday, September 3rd at 8 p.m.    Since he first topped the ... Read more...

Theodore Roosevelt to Speak at Annual Dinner for Historical Society

05/10/11  The public is invited to the 40th Annual Dinner of the Marshall County Historical Society at Christo’s Banquet Center on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011. Social hour begins at 6:30 p.m. with a buffet meal following at 7:00 p.m. ... Read more...

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS RAISE FUNDS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS

05/10/11 The Plymouth Knights of Columbus Council 1975 was out in force over the weekend passing out Tootsie Rolls for a good cause.  35 members of the Knights were at the intersection of Jefferson and Michigan as well as in front of ... Read more...

Control Is Possible, Pathfinder Services Launches ControlAbility

05/10/11  Pathfinder Services, a Comprehensive Human and Community Development organization out of Huntington Indiana, is launching a new personal hair care product line called Pathfinder ControlAbility. Because destiny of great hair and ... Read more...

INDOT Mowing Operations Set To Begin In LaPorte District

05/10/11  The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will soon begin mowing operations along state rights-of-way in the LaPorte District. INDOT mowing operations are designed to minimize costs and risk to highway workers while ... Read more...

Kids Read During Annual Reading Rally in Argos

05/10/11 Argos Community Schools Librarian Mary M. Jackson recently announced the results of their Reading Rally.  Argos Elementary held its annual Reading Rally in the month of April with more nearly 470,000 pages read throughout the ... Read more...

Ancilla College, Marshall County Community Foundation Team Up for ADEPT Initiative

05/09/11 The Marshall County Community Foundation has provided Ancilla College a grant in the amount of $20,300 to help launch the ADEPT (Assistive Developmentally-Enhanced Program and Technology) Initiative, the College announced on ... Read more...

Sheriff’s Deputies Investigate Theft from Unlocked Vehicle

05/09/11 On Wednesday, May 4th at approximately 9:00 a.m. Patrolman Brandon Cooper and Sergeant Bruce Carter of the Marshall County Police Department responded to the 11000 block of Lawndale in reference to a theft. After an investigation ... Read more...

City Police Officers Make Arrests

05/09/11 A week ago on Saturday, April 30th at 1:48 AM Officer Joe Deisch with the Plymouth Police Department conducted a traffic stop on 32 year old Michelle L. Rzepezynski of Monterey.  After further investigation she was arrested for ... Read more...