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Summer Arts Festival Saturday in downtown LaGrange

2 days ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

LAGRANGE – The fourth annual Summer Arts Festival is Saturday on the courthouse lawn in downtown LaGrange. Twenty-eight artists registered to exhibit from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. They include photographers, a weaver, a ceramicist, vintage glass art, a couple of potters, several artists that draw and sketch, painters, a woman who will be demonstrating tattoo art on leather, a glasswork artist, a writer, a watercolor artist and others.
1st Lakeland High School class celebrates with graduates

2 weeks ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

LAGRANGE — Members of Lakeland High School’s first graduating class participated in the Class of 2025 graduation ceremony Sunday in the Farmers State Bank Gymnasium. “Sixty years ago the Class of 1963 became the first graduating class of Lakeland,” said Principal Jason Schackow. “They came here today to be part of your celebration.”Thirteen members of the class planned to attend on Sunday, having gathered at the Van Buren Hotel in Shipshewana for a reunion.
June 4 - Old Settlers Days next week in Columbia City

3 weeks ago | fwbusiness.com | Amy Oberlin

COLUMBIA CITY — Old Settlers Days rolls into Columbia City on June 13 with a skating party at Happy Valley Rink, 625 W. Old Trail Road. Hosted by Hill Top Tavern, 7-9:30 p.m., the skating party is followed by a tractor drive through town by the Shrine Antique Power Club on June 14, starting at 10 a.m. on North Whitley Street. The midway opens at 5 p.m. June 17 followed by the opening ceremony at 8 p.m., featuring the Whitley County division of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir.
Memorial Day - LaGrange County

1 month ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

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Hawpatch Trail coming closer to reality

1 month ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

TOPEKA – LaGrange County Trails is committed to Hawpatch Trail for the long haul, and at Tuesday night’s meeting at the Topeka Fire Station, members of the nonprofit trails organization encouraged the community to get on board too. Planning began seven years ago, and at the end of last year the LaGrange County Community Foundation received a $5 million Lilly Endowment grant for Hawpatch Trail. The Community Foundation continues its support with a matching grant.
Shipshe to increase food, beverage tax

1 month ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

SHIPSHEWANA — Indiana Legislature approved an increase in the food and beverage tax in Shipshewana in January, and last week, Shipshewana Town Council approved a 2% food and beverage tax to begin Sept. 1. The town will use the funds to cover debt service for a new wastewater treatment plant. It is expected to lower residents’ sewer bills by $13 a month, according to figures presented at last Thursday’s Town Council meeting.
LaGrange woodworking business gets abatement

1 month ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

LAGRANGE – LaGrange County Council approved a five-year tax abatement for Miller Stewardship Leasing on Monday. The agreement will provide a 100% property tax break to the business in the first year, then the benefit will decrease by 20% each year. Jonas Miller originally asked for a 10-year abatement for the 19,500-square-foot woodworking building with additional furniture warehouse and mechanical storage room. The company employs a dozen people and intends to add three more with the expansion.
Habitat celebrates 35th build in LaGrange County

1 month ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

LAGRANGE – Makenna Swihart drove a nail into the frame of her new home during a ceremony Friday afternoon at LaGrange County Habitat for Humanity’s 35th build. Swihart and her three young children will live in the home after it is completed this summer. Lakeland Junior-Senior High School’s Building Trades program constructed the house and will complete most of the structural work prior to the end of the school year.
DQ, housing development coming to LaGrange

2 months ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

LAGRANGE – It’s official – Dairy Queen is coming to LaGrange. The town bought several properties at the corner of SR 9 and US 20 last year. Thursday, Todd Haidous – owner of Angola’s DQ and a number of other Dairy Queens and gas stations – signed a purchase agreement for the lots, said LaGrange Town Manager Mark Eagleson. The new restaurant is expected to be open late this year or early next year.
Walking in solidarity

2 months ago | kpcnews.com | Amy Oberlin

Participants in an April 22 unity walk around the LaGrange County Courthouse included event organizer Brandy Lowe, right, victim's advocate for the LaGrange County Prosecutor's Office, and Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Center nurses Elizabeth Castillo and Leslie Cook, who spoke to the audience assembled for an event that included a silent auction, food trucks and a testimonial by a local woman who endured a decade of sexual abuse by a family member when she was a child.