Rebecca Green

1 week ago | wboi.org | Rebecca Green

The City of Fort Wayne is gearing up for a utility rate hike to pay for millions of dollars in sewer, water, and stormwater upgrades. Officials unveiled the 5-year-plan– called “Moving Forward with Purpose” – this week. They will be making the proposal to the City Council in July. The project has identified more than 70 neighborhood stormwater projects, 60 miles of sewer linings and capacity upgrades, and replacing water mains with a history of breaks.

1 week ago | wboi.org | Rebecca Green

We now have rough tallies of how many protestors lined area sidewalks and flanked government buildings across Northeast Indiana last Saturday. According to Jim Carpenter of Indivisible Northeast Indiana, roughly 5,000 people participated in the Allen County protest on the Courthouse Green in downtown Fort Wayne.

1 week ago | wboi.org | Rebecca Green

Local writer and journalist Dan Stockman contributed to this report. Thousands of people gathered around courthouses and downtowns in northeast Indiana as part of the national No Kings Day of Defiance protests on Saturday. Early estimates nationwide put the number of those marching against the Trump administration at more than 5 million protestors in more than 2,100 planned events around the country. Protests were organized by Indivisible, local Democratic parties, and other groups.

2 weeks ago | wboi.org | Rebecca Green

Six men have been arrested in connection to a fight at Pike’s Pub late last month. The charges include battery resulting in serious bodily injury, criminal recklessness, and strangulation, A video of the May 30 fight went viral. It captured a Black patron being assaulted by white members of the Outlaw motorcycle gang. The video drew outrage and protests throughout Allen County, many calling it a hate crime. On Wednesday, 35-year-old Justin L.

2 weeks ago | wboi.org | Rebecca Green

Fort Wayne City Council issued a unanimous statement Wednesday condemning the attack on a Black patron of a local bar by white members of a motorcycle gang. The statement concerning the May 30 fight at Pike’s Pub, which sits just outside the city limits in Allen County, came after a number of residents spoke at Tuesday’s regular council meeting. In the statement, city council members acknowledged publicly the role the bar itself may have played in the incident.