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2 days ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The city is currently reviewing requirements for qualifications for 20 development teams for the North River property in downtown Fort Wayne. City Redevelopment Director Alec Johnson says this is a preliminary period where they are looking to see if teams can really manage a project of this magnitude. Because so many developers are interested, he says they most likely will need to create a shortlist of candidates that they can dig deeper into.
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3 days ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) - The Allen County Public Library is expanding its partnership with Blessings in a Backpack this summer, with plans to more than double the amount of food given to local children. The organizations’ program, which is meant to fight childhood hunger, launched last year and gave away more than 4,400 bags of shelf-stable food, enough to feed a child over the weekend.
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6 days ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - On Thursday, Fort Wayne Community Schools (FWCS) Superintendent Mark Daniel announced the district is expanding its pre-k before and after-school programs. The YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne CEO, Andrew Gritzmaker, says they are happy to continue their partnership with FWCS and even bring in another non-profit to help. “It’s really exciting because we have two great providers.
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1 week ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
WHITLEY COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) - The Goldwater Institute sent a letter to the Whitley County Consolidated Schools (WCCS) claiming they are violating a mother’s rights by banning her from school grounds. BACKGROUND: Woman banned from school district after recording meeting with principalHeather Nicole Graves Divine says her daughter recorded an incident on the school bus and filed a report, but she was not told about the report.
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1 week ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
NOBLE COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) - A Central Noble Community Schools operating referendum that could have increased property taxes for residents within the district failed Tuesday. BACKGROUND: Residents voting on potential property tax increase in Central Noble Schools referendum Tuesday | Story continues below previous reportThe vote was 704 to 569.
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1 week ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke |Alexander Bullock
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The family of a man killed by a Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) officer is still demanding answers months after his death. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: ‘He’s not armed. He’s not a threat,’ family of man killed by FWPD has seen body camera footage, demanding it be released to public58-year-old John McCloud was fatally shot by an FWPD officer last September during a home burglary just north of downtown.
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1 week ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Fort Wayne Community Schools (FWCS) held a celebratory dinner Thursday for the staff and faculty who are retiring after the school year ends in the upcoming weeks. The longest-serving staff member being honored was Dr. Debra Faye Williams-Robbins, the Deputy Superintendent, who worked with FWCS for 46 years. “Many of these people are people I’ve seen come into the district. I’ve even seen people come in after I did and leave before I did.
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2 weeks ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - A Fort Wayne business is building a pool free of charge to honor 11-year-old Dominic Durnell’s Make-A-Wish. In January, Dominic was diagnosed with Lymphoblastic Luekemia and the community has rallied to his side. Dominic’s mom, Christina Ray-Durnell, says they were told all they could get was an above-ground pool, but she says the neighborhood did not allow those. That’s when she says a family friend began sending letters to local businesses, and one answered the call.
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2 weeks ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The final hour before Indiana state legislatures had to agree on a budget, a cut to state funding for public media cooperations was added. Bruce Haines, the president of Fort Wayne’s PBS station, says that leading up to the final budget, funding for their station was included, but today they were shocked by the change. “We knew that level funding was in the Governor’s budget, it was included in the House side of things, and when it made it to the Senate was still there.
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2 weeks ago | 
21alivenews.com | Justin Lemke
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Gigi University’s first class of the new year graduated Thursday afternoon at Gigi’s Playhouse, after 15 weeks of classes. The program’s goal is to help adults with Down Syndrome learn skills that will help them in the workplace and allow them to achieve their highest potential. “The first day is always different because they’re very nervous usually and they don’t know what to expect, but you can literally watch their confidence grow in 15 weeks.
