Titus Refner News Today

WEST LAFAYETTE — Members of the DeKalb FFA chapter competed at the Indiana FFA State Convention, held June 19-23 at Purdue University, West Lafayette.

AUBURN — With just a few weeks until actors were set to take to the stage in performances of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” last December, Excelsior Arts Academy and Youth Theater Executive Director Kent Johnson was forced to cancel the show. Cases of COVID-19 were on the rise, and while the First Christian Church in Auburn was the perfect setting to tell the Christmas story, there was not the room needed for the cast to socially distance backstage, Johnson explained. “Th...

Projects were judged last week, and awards were presented Sunday in a virtual format. Refner will be receiving a plaque and a $300 cash award. His project was titled “Best of the Big Three.”  He tested the fruit production of husky cherry red tomatoes using nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.  Refner raised 12 plants, with three as control subjects and three apiece with each of the “big three" fertilizers. He fertilized and watered the plants, plucked fruit as it ripe...

ANGOLA — DeKalb County schools are sending 13 students to the Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair.