Local & State News

Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center Economic Impact

The Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center announces that the renovation of the Indiana Farmers Coliseum, along with the continued success of the Indiana State Fair and other events held at the Fairgrounds, generated a direct ... Read more...

Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Bolster U.S. Leadership in Genocide and Atrocity Prevention

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lauded the Senate passage by unanimous consent of bipartisan legislation to bolster U.S. government efforts to prevent ... Read more...

Marshall County Community Foundation Announces Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Recipient

One Marshall County student has been named recipient of a four-year, full-tuition scholarship as the Marshall County Community Foundation 2019 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar. Evan Manges will receive not only full tuition to the Indiana ... Read more...

County Drainage Board & Commissioners Meeting Monday

The Marshall County Drainage Board and Commissioners will meet this morning beginning at 8:30 in the second floor meeting room of the County Building. The agenda for the Drainage Board meeting includes opening bids for the reconstruction ... Read more...

Miller’s Assisted Living Announces Winners in Festival of Trees

Miller’s Assisted Living Director of Marketing Anna Corbett is pleased to announce the 2018 Festival of Trees winners.  Taking First places with their Red, White and Blue themed tree was the American Legion Women’s Auxiliary.  The ... Read more...

Rep. Jack Jordan: Reviewing, Evaluating Proposals for New Laws

Committees are vital to the legislative process, providing opportunities for members to review and evaluate proposals for new laws and hear public testimony.  House standing committee assignments for the 121st General Assembly were ... Read more...

Attorney General Hill Responds to Court Decision: Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional

Following a federal judge’s ruling Friday that the individual coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, Attorney General Curtis Hill issued the following statement: “This landmark decision is a victory for all ... Read more...

Young, Durbin Bill To Support Congenital Heart Defect Research Passes Senate

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Friday that their bipartisan bill, the Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act, unanimously passed the Senate. This legislation will promote federal research on ... Read more...

UNIT Officer Arrest North Liberty Man Following Investigation

On Monday, December 10, police officers from the UNIT conducted an investigation resulting in the arrest of 48 year old Michael Wise Jr. from North Liberty.  During the investigation officers seized approximately 44 grams of suspected ... Read more...

Superior I Court Sentencings on Thursday, December 13th

December 13, proved to be a very busy and productive day in Marshall Superior Court No. 1, as several serious criminal cases ended with substantial sentences for the defendants.  The list is below: Gunnar Vanhorn, 26, of Macy was ... Read more...

Attorney General Advises Hoosiers to beware fraudulent Emails from Apple

IN Attorney General Curtis Hill is advising Hoosiers to beware of fraudulent emails that appear, at first glance, to come from Apple representatives. Scammers are sending the fake emails in attempts to lure unsuspecting victims into ... Read more...

Miller’s Merry Manor Recognizes Employees Years of Service

During the employee Christmas Party, Plymouth Miller’s Merry Manor Administrator, Bryan Zehr, recognized employees for years of service to the company. Four ladies represented 128 years of services between them.  Special recognition ... Read more...

Senate Adopts Bipartisan Young-Led Yemen Amendment

Thursday, the Senate voted 58-41 to pass U.S. Senator Todd Young’s (R-Ind.) amendment to prevent the resumption of U.S. air refueling of Saudi coalition aircraft in Yemen. Wednesday, Senator Young introduced his bipartisan amendment ... Read more...

From the Ground Up: Soil – We Really Can’t Live Without It

“Despite all our artistic abilities, sophistication and accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of soil and the fact that it rains.”   ~ Anonymous Beneath our feet is an invisible world teeming with life, creating a ... Read more...

Stanish Brothers Arrested in Culver by County Police

Early Thursday morning, December 13, the Marshall County Sheriff`s Department obtained a 911-emergency call of two adult brothers fighting in the 900 block of South Main Street in Culver and one of the brothers had a knife. Officers from ... Read more...

County Council Not Willing to Commit $50K to Supportive Housing Project

During this week’s Marshall County Council meeting, Jim causey, President of the Garden County Board of Directors approached the council asking if there was any determination on the funding they requested for the Permanent Supportive ... Read more...

Plymouth School Board Approves Pay Increases & 2019-2020 School Calendar

Tuesday evening the Plymouth Community School Board unanimously approved salary increases for eligible administrators in the amount of $627.  Superintendent Andy Hartley noted that the amount was equivalent to the dollar amount the ... Read more...

County Democrats Elect Milner New County Chairman

The Marshall County Democratic Party held an election last Saturday to select a new county chairman after the November announcement from Jim Smart that he was resigning his position. While Smart announced his resignation on General ... Read more...

City Board of Works Opens Bids on Fuel and Street Supplies

This week the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety opened bids for 2019 Fuel Supplies. While street Superintendent Jim Marquardt sent out requests to three fuel providers only one returned bids for a fixed pricing requested. Ceres ... Read more...

Senator Young’s Office Helps Return $3 million to Hoosiers

In 2018, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) and his staff were able to return more than $3 million owed to Hoosiers by various federal agencies. A core function of Senator Young’s office is constituent services. The office is able to help ... Read more...