SYRACUSE — William J. “Bill” Pipp, who has been one of a number of people instrumental in getting gears moving in the Syracuse Water Control Device repair and establishing the Turkey Creek Dam and Dike Conservancy was awarded the 2019 Wawasee Property Owners Association Chief Award. The award … Read More
SYRACUSE — The wheels of progress are now in motion to make sure current and future repairs to the Syracuse Water Control Device are done. Wawasee Property Owners Association Board of Directors approved the establishment of a Water Control Structure Fund Saturday morning, May 18, during its meeting. … Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: Early this morning InkFreeNews learned there were multiple copies of the press release floating around council chambers during the Syracuse Town Council meeting last night. The corrected information was supplied by Councilman Larry Siegel and is shown in parenthesis. SYRACUSE — During the Syracuse Town … Read More
SYRACUSE — It’s been close to two years since discussions were held publicly about how to finance repairs needed to the Syracuse Flood Control Structure, also known as the Syracuse Memorial Dam. Since then a committee of representatives from the Syracuse Lake Association, Wawasee Property Owners Association and … Read More
NORTH WEBSTER — Tom and Holly Tuttle, Syracuse, were presented the co-Chief Award Sunday, Aug. 19, at the Wawasee Property Owners Association annual meeting. The annual meeting, attended by close to 70 people, was held at The Owl’s Nest, North Webster. The Chief Award has been presented each … Read More
SYRACUSE — During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee school board Tuesday, the board approved a $2,000 donation from the Wawasee Property Owners Association to the Wawasee Yacht Club. Funds will be used to cover Wawasee High School student fee costs when attending outdoor sports classes. The … Read More
LAKE WAWASEE — Beautiful, awesome, fantastic, wonderful and many other words were heard by those participating in the 2018 Wawasee Property Owners “Tour of the Century” home tour Saturday evening, Aug. 4. Homeowners, present at each of their homes, were thanked repeatedly by guests for opening their homes … Read More
KOSCIUSKO — The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department is very pleased to receive the donation of a new patrol boat for the department lake patrol program from the Wawasee Property Owners Association and with the assistance of Griffith Wawasee Marina in Syracuse. Thanks go to both of these fine … Read More
WARSAW — The community knows how to prepare for a tornado or flood, but how would the public respond if a rail car of hazardous material accidentally dumped its cargo near a local waterway? Those substances would seep into the closest wetland or stream, potentially causing serious damage … Read More
SYRACUSE — Jim Tranter had no idea the reason a majority of his family had joined him and his wife, Karen, for the Wawasee Property Owners Association annual meeting was because he was to be the recipient of the WPOA 2017 Chief Award. In fact he didn’t realize … Read More
SYRACUSE — Families from Syracuse and Wawasee lakes enjoyed the annual Syracuse Lake Association and Wawasee Property Owners Association family breakfast at Oakwood Resort. Several hundred attended the annual event Saturday morning. Not only could the guests enjoy breakfast with friends they haven’t seen for a year, but … Read More
LAKE WAWASEE — This summer, the Center for Lakes & Streams, at Grace College, began a new project to monitor starry stonewort on Lake Wawasee. Starry stonewort is an invasive algae which can pose a threat to lakes as it can form dense, thick mats which inhibit boat … Read More
SYRACUSE — The rain moved on and the sun came out just in time for the Wawasee Property Owners annual dinner meeting on the SS Lilly Pad Saturday evening, Aug. 20.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — The hosting of the 33rd Annual Wawasee E-Scow Open Regatta on Lake Wawasee, June 4-5, was the perfect time to try out a registered drone. Ryan Nell and Jeff Herdrich, race enthusiasts and lake residents, were following the regatta in a pontoon and used one of their drones to video the event.
Read MoreWARSAW — A petition to rezone 3 acres, located on the south side of Hatchery Road and along the east side of CR 850E, met resistance at the Kosciusko County Area Planning Commission’s regular meeting Wednesday, June 1, from both the public and APC members. Andrew Rossell, engineer … Read More
SYRACUSE — There was a lot of discussion between members of the Syracuse Quiet Zone Committee, along with residents, Syracuse Town Manager Henry DeJulia and representatives from Lawson, Fisher Associates, an engineering firm in Mishawaka regarding safety and insurance liability during a Quiet Zone Committee meeting Tuesday night, … Read More
