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GOSHEN — The Elkhart County 4-H Fair is over for the year, however, some award-winning recipes deserve to be shared. Our food pages will feature those recipes in the upcoming

ANGOLA — Steuben County has a new highway engineer, Charles "Chip" Porter, a Tri-State University graduate.

ANGOLA — A second set of replacement windows to be installed at the former First National Bank of Angola building on the Public Square started going in on Monday afternoon and appear to be complete, minus some trim. The work comes months after a lawsuit ordered removal of the first set of replacement windows then the February approval by the Angola Historic Preservation Commission of a new set of windows was approved. "The HPC is very pleased with how this situation turned out. The company...

Commissioners want to wait on new jail AUBURN — Two out of three DeKalb County Commissioners made it clear Monday that they do not support building a jail right now. During their weekly meeting at the courthouse in Auburn, Bill Hartman and Todd Sanderson said they want to wait until a spike in construction costs subsides. The commissioners have been considering a new jail seriously since January, when they chose the Elevatus architecture firm of Fort Wayne to design a jail on property at t...

ANGOLA — The Orton Farmstead property at 1025 N. C.R. 200W that was slated for demolition for a roundabout project might not meet that fate as it was discovered the

ANGOLA — The Angola Historic Preservation Commission has decided to write to the Indiana Department of Transportation requesting it be given time to photograph and document a Pleasant Township farmstead before it is bulldozed to make room for a traffic circle. The Commission on Tuesday voted to respond to a letter it received from the state agency about a property at 1025 N. C.R. 200W that is slated for potential demolition as part of an upcoming intersection improvement project. The lette...

ANGOLA — Designs for the new second-story windows to be installed at the former First National Bank building were unveiled during an Angola Historic Preservation Commission meeting Tuesday and received unanimous approval from the body’s members. Tuesday’s approval of a new certificate of appropriateness filed by Thomas Blake, owner of 15 S. Public Square, means he can move forward with installing the new windows, bringing him into compliance with a Steuben Circuit Court order. Bl...

Thanks to social media, we get to keep up with friends from long ago or reconnect with them after years of not staying in touch. Just recently, I reached out to one of my friends from junior and senior high school, Bob Yapp. Bob and I met in the seventh grade at Joseph I. Brody Junior High School on the southwest side of Des Moines, Iowa. Had I lived literally two blocks east of my boyhood home on Kirkwood Avenue, I would have gone to a different junior high school and I might never have had th...

ANGOLA — It would appear the former First National Bank building in downtown Angola is going to get a second set of new windows just a month after replacement windows were installed by its owner, Thomas Blake. Blake and staff and representatives of Indiana Landmarks and Angola government met Thursday with the goal of meeting a resolution over the windows that were installed on the west and north sides of the building that the Angola Historic Preservation Commission ruled against allowing. ...