WPOA Cottage Tour July 27
The home of Gerald and Edna Mann, Pier 521, is one of four Lake Wawasee Cottages featured on the WPOA Cottage Tour on July 27. Bring your friends, your family, co-workers to the Wawasee Property Owners...
View ArticleCCF Golf Event Returns To Tippy
Ron Smock, left, chairman of the 2013 Steve Dodds Charity Golf Tournament for the Cancer Care Fund of Kosciusko County, makes sure Matt Funkhouser, head golf professional and Tippecanoe Lake County...
View ArticleSyracuse Police Reports
Accidents Syracuse Police Officers investigated the following accidents: Saturday, 10:07 a.m. South Huntington Street, south of Railroad Avenue. Driver: Michael L. Griewank, 55, LaGrange. Griewank was...
View ArticlePole Barn Destroyed By Fire
Milford Fire Department was called out at 4 a.m. this morning to the home of Rodney Miller, West CR 900 North, when a pole barn on his property caught fire. Fully engulfed when firefighters arrived,...
View ArticleFormer Salesman Earns Prison Time For Theft
Steven J. Gutowski, whose last known address was Winona Lake, was sentenced to four years at the Indiana Department of Corrections this morning in Kosciusko Superior Court on three class C felony...
View ArticleUPDATE: Head-On Crash On U.S. 6
The driver and passenger in this Jeep sustained unknown injuries. Both were transported to IU Health Goshen. (Photo by Deb Patterson) Turkey Creek Fire Territory Paramedics and New Paris Fire and EMS...
View ArticleSLA Looks To Add Music With Fireworks
Carla McClain, left, presented Dean Schwalm with a token of appreciation for his years overseeing the water quality testing on Syracuse Lake. McClain and several others have been learning the...
View ArticleSyracuse Police Reports
Accidents Officers of the Syracuse Police Department recently investigated the following accidents: Saturday, 2 p.m. Huntington Street, south of West Henry Street. Drivers: Lisa D. McNiel, 38, CR 29,...
View ArticleBoating In Shallow Water Harming Lakes
Boats specialized for wakeboarding and surfing create large wakes and need to be operated in deeper water Skiing, wake boarding and now surfing are popular sports on the area lakes. Specialty boats, to...
View ArticleGet Optimum Performance, Go In Deeper Water
This bathymetric map of Lake Wawasee shows the various depths with many indicating the best place for skiing, wakeboarding and surfing is the darker blue areas where depths range from 20 feet to 80...
View ArticleFewer Impacts At 10-Feet Or Deeper
Studies of the effects of motorized watercraft on the aquatic ecosystems by numerous experts in the field have been conducted and written as early as 1976. A majority of the studies were published in...
View ArticleBREAKING: Child Rescued From Lake
North Webster EMS and Fire are en route to the area of EMS B3A lane where a small child reportedly fell into the lake and has been retrieved from the water. CPR is reportedly in progress. Police radio...
View ArticleNWFD Quickly Controls Fire
North Webster Fire Department responded to a fire at 36 EMS T14 Lane, Leesburg, at 1:53 a.m. this morning. The fire was quickly contained to the outside wall of the residence as it started to go into...
View ArticleGingerich Waiver Hearing Postponed
Paul Henry Gingerich was only 12 years old when he was sent to prison for conspiracy to commit murder. (File photo) A waiver hearing for Paul H. Gingerich, 15, Cromwell, set to begin this morning has...
View ArticleSyracuse Police Reports
Incidents Officers of the Syracuse Police Department recently investigated the following incidents: Sunday, 11:19 p.m., reported at 9:51 a.m. Monday. Officials at What You Want Store, South Huntington...
View ArticleMilford Police Report
Accidents Officers of the Milford Police Department recently investigated the following accident Friday, 6:45 p.m. South Main Street. Joe Ousley Jr., Warsaw, reported his vehicle was struck by a...
View ArticleWACF Annual Meeting Saturday
Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation will host its annual meeting at 8 a.m. Saturday at the WACF Wetlands Educational Center, 11586 N. SR 13, Syracuse. The morning will start with a breakfast followed...
View ArticleINDOT Proposal To Address Dangerous Intersection
Shown is a diagram on file at Syracuse Public Library of the right of way and bridge area on the proposed CR 29 project to place a bridge over US 6. (Photo by Deb Patterson) A public hearing will be...
View ArticleINDOT Identifies Properties Affected By Dangerous Intersection Project
This photograph of an aerial view outlining the potential effected areas was taken from the document on file at Syracuse Public Library. (Photo by Deb Patterson) The intersection of U.S. 6 and CR 29...
View ArticleWACF Education Center To Be Renamed
Tom Yoder, land acquisition committee member, shows the Lake Wawasee watershed with the crucial properties outlined identified in a 1995 Commonwealth Engineering Study. WACF has acquired approximately...
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