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As we approach a new year, we look back at a year of Source Weekly stories

As we approach a new year, we look back at a year of Source Weekly stories

Morgan Schmidt for County Commissioner A lack of affordable housing, homelessness, worker shortages, a childcare "desert," drought and wildfires. These are just a few of...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

Two Indiana Charter Schools Are Competing To Buy A Building For $1 Dylan Peers McCoy/WFYI Two charter schools are competing to buy an elementary building in South Bend under a controversial Indiana law that forces districts to sell or lease closed schools for $1. After the South Bend school board voted earlier this year to close Tarkington Elementary School, the state added it to a list of unused buildings that charter schools can buy. Two schools submitted letters of interest: Career and Succ...

Seventy-five years of wedded bliss By: Tyler Clarke Advertisement Putting a happy ending to a difficult year, Lois and Jock Carr are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary today. "I guess the luck of the Lord and a kind God that he has let us stay here," Lois said by phone recently. Lois and Jock Carr are seen in this undated photo. "It’s God’s will, isn’t it? We worked hard, but we were lucky we had good meals on the table and w...