Page 98 - Lagrange County News Today

INDIANAPOLIS — DeKalb and LaGrange counties each recorded one new COVID-19 death in Tuesday’s statewide report.

Only Whitley and Steuben counties remain in the red for Indiana’s county metrics for COVID-19. The designation is a combination of the number of cases per

TOPEKA — Standing on the southwest corner of the four-way stop in downtown Topeka shortly after noon on Monday to get a breath of fresh air, Topeka Town Marshal Stan Strater Jr. ended up saying hello to the drivers of almost every car that passed by. He knows them all by their first names. “Ah, Ruth, how are you?” he shouts, waving back to the woman driving a maroon SUV who waved at him first as she rounded the four-way stop in Topeka. Across the street, a brown Ford F-250 haulin...

INDIANAPOLIS — Steuben County has logged another COVID-19 death, it’s 46th overall and 13th this month.

Last line of defense: New bill would strip protections for many of Indianas wetlands Sarah Bowman and London Gibson, Indianapolis Star How climate change will impact Indiana Replay Video UP NEXT Update 12:45 p.m. Jan. 25. 2021: Lawmakers passed SB 389 out of the Senate Environmental Affairs Committee Monday afternoon, after more than two hours of testimony and discussion. The final 8-3 vote fell along party lines. The bill will now head to the Senate floor.  © Michelle Pemb...

Three local counties boost rating to orange INDIANAPOLIS — A week after seeing COVID-19 ratings worsen to their worst point ever, Indiana showed marked improvement last week, with many counties getting better ratings than the week before. That included northeast Indiana, where Noble, DeKalb and LaGrange counties all improved from red to orange. Steuben County stayed in red, but just barely, as it showed improvement from a week ago, too, just not enough to change colors. Overall, Indiana sa...

LAGRANGE — When Tharon Morgan learned she’d been hired as LaGrange County’s new highway department engineer, she said she felt like she was coming home. Morgan, a civil engineer, is a 2010 graduate of Prairie Heights High School and a 2013 graduate of Trine University. In the years since she graduated from college, she worked as both a land surveyor and as a staff engineer for the Indiana Department of Transportation in Fort Wayne. The highway department engineer’s job, she ...

Positivity rates continued to decline in northeast Indiana on Friday, as did the total number of COVID-19 cases reported.

AUBURN — The DeKalb County Health Department on Wednesday reported 25 new cases of COVID-19 in DeKalb County residents.

INDIANAPOLIS — Two more local residents lost their lives to COVID-19, with DeKalb and Steuben counties each recording one new coronavirus death in Wednesday’s report.