Marshall County Community Foundation (MCCF) announced the Fall 2020 grant awards from Community Funds totaling $75,850.Due to COVID-19, no group in-person awards presentation took place this grant cycle. MCCF Board members instead delivered award signs to individual sites. Multi-year grants approved prior rounds were also issued with $12,500 from Community Funds. Twice each year,...
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On Sunday, October 18th at 6:18 P.M. Officer Arnold with the Plymouth Police Department was dispatched to a vehicle crash in the 1000 block of West Adams Street where one of the vehicles fled the scene. Officer Beatty located the vehicle that fled the scene at the intersection of State Road 17 and Glenn...
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On Wednesday, October 21st at approximately 7:34 A.M. Marshall County Sheriff’s Deputy Smith responded to a property damage accident in the area of US 6 & Jarrah Road. After an investigation 26 year old, Aaron Collins of Indianapolis was taken into custody for Driving While Suspended with a Prior. It was also determined that...
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County Sheriff Matthew Hassel is reminding residents that the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department will be participating in the DEA National Drug Take Back this Saturday October 24, from 10:00am until 2:00pm.  Hassel said, “We have partnered with Michiana Behavioral Health and the 525 Foundation for this event. Residence will be able to drop off...
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Sheriff Matthew Hassel today announced that Marshall County citizens who would like to join him in the fight against crime are invited to become members of the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association. Many local citizens and some businesses have already joined the Association in support of our efforts. The Indiana Sheriffs’ Association is a nonprofit, professional,...
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The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 2,880 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. Today’s numbers represent results from 36,552 specimens submitted, the highest number to date. To date, a total of 155,246 Indiana residents are known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections...
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U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spoke about this week’s Senate vote to deliver needed coronavirus relief to the American people. Senator Young also addressed the upcoming confirmation vote for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “Well evidently Speaker Pelosi and National Democrats believe that giving the American people, during a time of...
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Attorney General Curtis Hill applauded the passage of the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which assigns the three-digit number 988 as the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The legislation was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Oct. 17, and the number is set to go into effect nationwide by mid-2022. “A three-digit...
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Thursday morning the Marshall County Commissioners signed a Public Health Disaster Emergency Declaration as it relates to the coronavirus. During the live conference call, heard on WTCA, Kevin Overmyer, President of the Commission said Marshall County has over 1,320 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 237 active cases and 26 deaths. He said St Joseph...
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Indiana’s unemployment rate drops to 6.2 percent for September, and the national rate is 7.9 percent. The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the prior four weeks as a percentage of the labor force. Locally, Marshall County remains ranked...
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On Tuesday, October 20th at approximately 3:00 A.M. Marshall County Sheriff’s Deputy Bennett responded to a report of an impaired or reckless driver southbound on US 31 from the north county line. Deputy Bennett located the suspected vehicle and conducted a traffic stop in the area of US 31 and 12th Road. The driver,...
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During Monday’s County Commissioner meeting, President Kevin Overmyer said he received complaints and pictures of an older combine with steel wheels driving on Ironwood road in the area of 18th Road. Overmyer said referring to the picture, “It’s not a new combine, it’s maybe 20 to 30 years old and they took the rubber...
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On Tuesday, October 20th at 8:07 A.M. Deputy Hafke with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department responded to a single vehicle crash in the area of 4A and US 31 in the southbound lane. Upon arriving to the scene Deputy Hafke located a gold Oldsmobile Bravada. According to scanner traffic the Bravada left the roadway...
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On Friday, October 23rd, poet and owner of PAN-O-PLY magazine Dan Breen will be sharing his work and experiences on the set of Wild Rose Moon’s Moonlight. Breen works as a General Manager at Panera Bread in South Bend, Indiana. He lives there with his wife, Theresa, and their two sons. Inspiration for the...
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The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 1,766 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. To date, a total of 152,396 Indiana residents are known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard. A total of 3,790 Hoosiers are confirmed to...
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Beginning Monday, October 26th, the Town of Culver will begin flushing fire hydrants. The process will continue throughout the week. Please be advised that residents may experience some discoloration of the water during this process. This is only temporary. If the water is rusty in color, turn on an outside faucet to clear the...
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U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), both members of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced the bipartisan American Innovation and Jobs Act to support research and development (R&D) investments by innovative small businesses and startups.   Companies and startups can either deduct R&D investments or claim them as a tax credit, which...
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Attorney General Curtis Hill announced that he has joined the United States Department of Justice and 10 other state attorneys general in filing a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google. The federal lawsuit aims to prevent Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets. As one...
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U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) Thursday issued the following statement regarding Senate Democrats once again voting to block COVID-19 relief: “Today, Senate Republicans attempted once again to deliver critical assistance to the families, workers, schools, hospitals, and small businesses that are all struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The targeted package the...
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Jason Peters, Superintendent of the Marshall County Highway Department updated the commissioners on road projects during their meeting Monday. County Highway employees have completed the Thorn Road project with wedge and level from there the chip and seal ended; the Collins subdivision was wedged and leveled and they were able to complete the in-kind...
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