Local & State News

Plymouth High School English teacher Amanda Knox and the 19 students who are part of this year’s SEED club have been busy preparing for the club’s annual Give Back for Christmas since the new school year started back in August. This is ... Read more...

The 2019 United Way Give and Golf Card is now available just in time for Christmas giving. The Give and Golf Card, available for a $60 donation to United Way of Marshall County and entitles a golfer to play two rounds of golf at the three ... Read more...

Karen Heim, the Culver Town Clerk Treasurer released information on the upcoming town elections in 2019. In October, the Culver Town Council passed an ordinance that changed the process of determining a political party’s candidate for ... Read more...

State Representative Jack Jordan (R-Bremen) encourages students who want to learn more about state government to participate in the Indiana House Page Program during the 2019 legislative session. According to Jordan, those who are between ... Read more...

On Monday, December 17th, the Triton Jr./Sr. High School Art Club held an acrylic paint pouring workshop after school. The students learned paint pour techniques and created several poured pieces to help release the stress of final exams! ... Read more...

On Tuesday, December 18, a California man was arrested during a traffic stop on US 30 in Marshall after Indiana State Troopers discovered 160 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle. According to Trooper Dave Caswell, he stopped a black 2018 ... Read more...

Construction of a barn being built on the Jimenez property on Dogwood road was halted when a neighbor reported the construction.   The barn was being built without a building permit and the new barn and a fence is within the counties 75 ... Read more...

Monday morning the Marshall County Commissioners approved a contract to install a new phone system in the Marshall County Jail. Sheriff Matt Hassel and Matt Pitney, Director of Communications at the jail told the county commissioners that ... Read more...

Members of the Plymouth City Council heard first reading of an ordinance that will increase certain fees in the Plymouth Park Department and at the Airport last week. Both the Plymouth Park Board and the Aviation Board have already ... Read more...

The Plymouth Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 195 recently donated 77 gift cards valued at $78 each to Real Services.  The cards will be distributed to their clients who are in need of assistance. The hope of F.O.P. Lodge 195 is that the ... Read more...

U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.) Tuesday called for a swift solution to the steel and aluminum tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Walorski and Kind were joined by six other members of the Ways and Means ... Read more...

Emergencies don’t take a holiday. The American Red Cross urgently needs blood and platelet donors to make an appointment now to give and help ensure patients can get the treatment they need at a moment’s notice. In November 2016, a ... Read more...

Attorney General Curtis Hill Tuesday filed Indiana’s latest brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of an Indiana law involving abortion. Enacted in 2016, House Bill 1337 contains two provisions at issue in ... Read more...

state of Indiana is currently accepting nominations for the Governor’s Century and Half Century Business Awards, which honor Hoosier businesses that have remained in operation for at least 100 or 50 years, respectively, and have ... Read more...

30 year old David Cottrell was arrested on Thursday, December 13th about 1:30 in the afternoon for the crimes of Sexual Battery, Criminal Confinement, Escape, Resisting Law Enforcement. Mr. Cottrell was being investigated for the Sexual ... Read more...

A bank stabilization plan was approved by the Marshall County Drainage Board Monday morning. A high intensity AEP, 4-legged transmission tower in the 1800 block of Jarrah Road was constructed years ago, too closed to the Stepheny Forsythe ... Read more...

The Marshall County Commissioner were presented with a proposal to have a complete appraisal of all the county owned buildings.  During the commissioner’s meeting on Monday, Mike Miley, Insurance consultant said he received 4 bids in ... Read more...

Marshall County Police investigated a report of gun shots and suspicious activity in the area of Union Road and 8th Road Saturday morning, December, 15th about 3:20.  Officer Ayala‘s report indicates that the suspect vehicle fled the ... Read more...

The Marshall County Community Foundation is now accepting applications for the first of two 2019 Community Funds grant rounds. Applications for the Spring 2019 grant round are due on February 1, and the application may be found on the MCCF ... Read more...

Two women were arrested on Sunday and lodged in the Marshall County Jail for Operating While Intoxicated. The first arrest happened about a quarter till one in the morning.  72 year old Donna K. Wood of Walkerton was stopped near the ... Read more...