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After 50 years, hippie era law on large gatherings in Indiana is dropped The law was recently removed as part of an effort to repeal Indiana county ordinances that have no practical use but have been on the books for as long as 100 years. Author: Associated Press Updated: 1:09 PM EST January 2, 2021 LaGrange County, Indiana, has repealed a 1971 law that was intended to block huge gatherings like the 1969 Woodstock music festival in New York state. "I called it ou...

LAGRANGE, Ind. (AP) — Peace, love — and LaGrange. LaGrange County, Indiana, has repealed a 1971 law that was intended to block huge gatherings like the 1969 Woodstock music festival in New York state. “I called it our anti-hippie ordinance,” county commissioner Dennis Kratz said with a smile. The ordinance regulated large gatherings that lasted more than 12 hours and involved more than 500 people, The News Sun reported. The law...

Five northeast Indiana counties are back in the red advisory level with regards to community spread of COVID-19.

COVID-19 7-day positivity rates are higher in a number of northeast Indiana counties Tuesday, in some cases going back over 20 percent.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s COVID-19 looks worse this week, overall, with more counties in red than ever. That’s likely been brought on by a change in how the state is calculating positivity rates, suggesting the half-red status of the state is maybe more how Indiana has actually looked in recent weeks. Locally, there wasn’t much change except for LaGrange County improving from the worst red rating to orange for the first time since Nov. 4. DeKalb County saw improvement in both...

Credit Screenshot of Indiana Department of Health Neighborhood Health in Fort Wayne is now offering rapid antigen testing as of Monday morning.   The news comes as hospitalizations and ICU usage by COVID-19 patients ticked up slightly to begin the week.   The rapid test results can be prepared in ten minutes and can be used for patients who are within five days of the onset of COVID-19 symptoms. Longer -- and more accurate -- PCR tests are also available for use “when appropriate,” accord...

INDIANAPOLIS — The four-county area has lost four more residents to COVID-19. Steuben County logged its 20th and 21st deaths, LaGrange County tallied its 52nd and Noble County recorded its 54th death in reports from the Indiana State Department of Health over Sunday and Monday. Case numbers are way down to start the week, although that’s more an impact of testing being way down coming out of the Christmas holiday weekend than anything. Activity had been trending downward prior to the ...

SHIPSHEWANA — As 2020 winds to a close, Shipshewana’s annual Ice Festival is now seemingly just another event on a long list of public events that became a causality of the coronavirus pandemic. The two-day annual winter festival usually takes place in the week between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. It features ice sculptures, an ice carving competition and a competitive chili cook-off. But worried that it sill won’t be safe for crowds, the event has been, at best, p...

ANGOLA — Mark Leu no longer thinks of LaGrange County REMC as just an electric membership cooperative that serves a rural community. “We no longer consider ourselves an electric cooperative. We are now an electric and communications cooperative,” said Leu, CEO of LaGrange County REMC. That’s the new reality of two electric cooperatives that had humble beginnings of simply working to string wire to rural LaGrange and Steuben counties so those who lived in the country — m...

LAGRANGE — Travis Glick has been nominated by the LaGrange County Republican Party to fill the soon to be vacant job of LaGrange County Prosecutor. Glick was nominated Tuesday night to fill the final two years of the prosecutor’s term in office by a caucus of Republican precinct committee members. Glick, 38, had served as the LaGrange County Prosecutor’s office chief deputy. He will replace Greg Kenner, the current LaGrange County Prosecutor who will retire at the end of this yea...