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  • 2 weeks ago | yournewsjournal.com | Joseph Slacian

    Changes are coming to the City of Wabash’s Historic Preservation Commission. The Wabash City Council unanimously approved an amendment related to the enforcement of the city’s historic preservation ordinance when it met on June 9. “The impetus for this is a streamlining, so to speak,” Mayor Scott Long told the Council. “Actually, we’re having problems getting the Historic Preservation Commission to have a quorum during its meetings which has resulted in some delays of construction.

  • 3 weeks ago | yournewsjournal.com | Joseph Slacian

    The Wabash City Council took the first step toward creating a new Economic Revitalization Area. The Council, when it met on Tuesday, May 27, unanimously approved a declaratory resolution to make a 232 acre site the city purchased last year into the economic revitalization area. The land is west of the WEDCOR Industrial Park. It is bordered by Ind. 115 and WEDCOR Avenue on the east and west, and WEDCOR Avenue and Beauchamp Drive on the north and south.

  • 1 month ago | yournewsjournal.com | Joseph Slacian

    The Wabash County YMCA will begin offering child care at the current Bowen Health building on North Miami Street likely beginning sometime in 2026. The Wabash County Board of Zoning Appeals granted a special exception to the YMCA to open the child care facility when it met May 15. The special exception is needed because the site is in an area zoned residential. Bowen Health is currently building a facility off of Bryan Avenue.

  • 2 months ago | yournewsjournal.com | Joseph Slacian

    The Wabash Carnegie Public Library will host two strategic partnership listening sessions later this month. Library Executive Director Jon Gaskill told the Wabash City Council on Monday that the listening will be on April 23 and again on April 25. The April 23 meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m., while the April 25 meeting will be at 10 a.m. Both are at the library. The meetings are designed to create a strategic plan to guide the future of the Wabash library.

  • Mar 26, 2025 | yournewsjournal.com | Joseph Slacian

    Kristen Petruniw has resigned from the Wabash City Schools Board effective March 18, the Wabash City Council learned on Monday, March 24. Petruniw, who resigned as executive director of Downtown Wabash Inc. in December, will become a guidance counselor for the Wabash City Schools, Mayor Scott Long informed council. He informed the council of the opening because the council appoints members to the school board.

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