While the waters are now receding, Tippecanoe River overflowed its banks below the Webster Lake Dam in North Webster due to the recent rains. Hoosiers who sustained damage caused by severe weather and flooding that began April 17 and resulted through April 22, can report damage online. Also, … Read More
Milford-based film company Ace In The Hole Films, in conjunction with Death Sickle Productions from North Webster, has begun pre-production on their upcoming feature film, “The Debt Collector,” which will be released in the fall of 2014. “The Debt Collector” tells the story of Chris, a college student … Read More
Although Indiana Conservation Officers cited the holder of a permit to kill mute swans in the Barbee Chain of Lakes, ICO Nick Vander Molen said the permit is still valid. Barbee property owners, upset with what they believe was the brutal killing of mute swans on Sechrist Lake … Read More
Precious Metal Clay class will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 29. Cost of attendance is $55. Using a small ball of metal clay we will learn to form it into a pendant with different tools, textures and stamps. After firing in the kiln you are left … Read More
The North Webster Public Library announced its Four Months of Fun contest winners at the big National Library Week Celebration last Thursday and awarded their long awaited prizes. Since January, the library has been holding contests and drawings each month. The winner of January’s Audio Book Drawing was … Read More
An investigation by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources into the alleged beating death of a mute swan on Sechrist Lake has still not been concluded. A Saturday meeting among property owners of the Barbee Chain of Lakes where it happened is expected to see a large attendance. … Read More
Tippecanoe Township celebrated the opening of its new office in the Tippecanoe Township Building, 102 S. Morton St., North Webster, with a ribbon cutting by the North Webster-Tippecanoe Township Chamber of Commerce on Monday, April 15. The trustee office has been moved to larger quarters in the same … Read More
North Webster Elementary School is conducting a census to obtain names of students who will be attending kindergarten this August. To be eligible for admission to the kindergarten program, a child must be five years old on or before Aug. 1, 2013 and reside in the North Webster … Read More
Roy Messer, 61, of North Webster, Ind., passed away on April 15, 2013, at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was born on Sept. 7, 1951, to Irvin and Dorothy (Smith) Messer. On Nov. 25, 1971, he married Bonnie LeCount who preceded him in 2012. Roy retired from … Read More
North Webster Police, Indiana State Police and deputies of the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department were called at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to a residence in the 9000 block of CR 500 North, North Webster, for a potential hostage situation, but it appears the call was a false alarm. … Read More
This week libraries all across America are celebrating National Library Week and the unique role libraries serve in our communities. The North Webster Community Public Library has been joining in the festivities all week long. Don’t miss the library’s big celebration at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18. It’s … Read More
Incidents Officers of the North Webster Police Department recently investigated the following incidents: Saturday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. Crystal Flash Road. A small male dog, possibly a terrier, was found and transported to the Kosciusko Animal Welfare League, Warsaw. Friday, April 12, 9:40 p.m. South Main Street. NWPD … Read More
North Webster Elementary School is celebrating Grandparents Week all this week, April 15-19. Grandparents are invited to have lunch at school with their grandchildren and to shop the “two-for-the-price of one” book sale that will benefit the North Webster Elementary Parents-Teachers-Friends Organization and provide interesting material for students … Read More
A lost cell phone ultimately led to the arrest of a North Webster man accused of breaking into a Syracuse residence over the weekend and stealing prescription medications. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested Kenneth J. Keene, 51, Saturday afternoon after locating his cell phone at the scene … Read More
North Webster Fire Chief Jeremy Likens said two trailers were so badly burned in a late night fire an exact cause may never be known. At about 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, a woman on B18 Lane at Kuhn Lake saw flames and called 911. An officer responding to … Read More
Allen Shepherd, 69, of North Webster, Ind. passed away at 2:12 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at Lutheran Hospital of Indiana in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was born on Jan. 4, 1944, in Floyd County, Ky., to Henry and Roxie (Slone) Shepherd. He was married on May 22, … Read More
