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Credit Photo Illustration by WBOI Seven area counties now have about 30 percent of their populations fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Indiana Department of Health.    Northeast Indiana’s 7-day positivity rate is down to 5.7 percent, falling a few tenths of a percent since earlier this week.   Indiana’s positivity rate is down to 4.5 percent, with 1,406 new cases reported on Thursday.   Whitley, DeKalb, Steuben and LaGrange counties remain in the state’s second-worst...

Credit Screenshot of the Indiana Department of Health Northeast Indiana’s 7-day positivity rate dropped a bit more on Friday, although hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are at their highest since early February.   Allen County’s total for those infected with the illness topped 40,000 with the addition of 83 new cases on Friday, according to the Allen County Department of Health.   The county’s 7-day positivity rate stands at 5 percent, deemed safe by the WHO for community spread. And 34 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana entered April seeing rising COVID-19 numbers from all-time lows hit in March, and although the state saw more overall activity, the uptick was slow and short-lived, already starting to come back down. That being said, northeast Indiana hasn’t started to see an improvement yet, as cases continue to rise again across regions near the Michigan border. After March was arguably Indiana’s best month ever during the pandemic, April didn’t quite hit the same m...

Credit Screenshot of the Indiana Department of Health There are now four northeast Indiana counties in the state’s safest zone for COVID-19 spread, but there are also four in the state’s second-worst zone.   According to the Indiana Department of Health on Wednesday, Adams, Huntington, Wabash and Wells counties are all in the “blue”, measured by 7-day positivity rates and cases per 100,000 residents.   DeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben and Whitley counties are all in the “orange”, with po...

Here is the schedule: Mondays, May 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursdays, May 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 10 a.m. to 11a.m. LaGrange County Public Library Space is limited; call 260-463-2841, extension 1030 to register. A $5 donation is suggested for each session. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one. If you don’t have a yoga mat, feel free to bring a rug or a blanket instead. Social distancing will be carefully observed. Preschool Virtual Story Time LaGrange County Public Librar...

INDIANAPOLIS — Northeast Indiana is now becoming the state’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot, with three of four counties in our local area now rated orange, representing high spread of COVID-19. Five of the seven counties rated orange this week are located in the northeast corner of the state, even as most of Indiana is showing low spread of the virus. Indiana, as a whole, looks better overall this week, but northern Indiana continues to struggle with higher COVID-19 activity. A week after ...

4 Indiana Department of Natural Resources.  Connecting Wetlands, Wildlife, and You  Veto request for SEA 389 - 5  The DNR has estimated dollar values for some of the annual benefits wetlands provide:  ●  $1.8 billion in water storage,  ●  $850 million in erosion prevention,  ●  $202 million in water purification, and  ●  support for Indiana’s multi-billion dollar outdoor recreation, hunting, and fishing industries5.  The water storage and water quality functions of wetlan...

LAGRANGE — A Shipshewana man who police say drove the get-a-way car for a machete-wielding accomplice who was accused of robbing a Shipshewana hotel will be spending the next 10 years of his life in prison after agreeing to a plea deal with the LaGrange County Prosecutor’s Office. Matthew David Felder, 26, of the 7600 block of North C.R. 920W, agreed to plead guilty to a charge of aiding in armed robbery, a Level 3 felony. He also agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of possessio...

. But just a few days before the event, only six people had signed up. While the lack of interest concerned county health workers, it did not surprise them. Over the past few weeks they have noticed a steep drop in interest in the COVID-19 vaccine. About 20% of the county’s population over the age of 16 has been fully been vaccinated, placing Miami among the state’s counties with the lowest percentage of vaccinated adults. The county stretches along U.S. 31 north from Kokomo.  “It’s cr...

No new COVID-19 deaths were reported in northeast Indiana on Monday, and the area’s positivity rate dropped below 6 percent for the past 7 days.