A small troupe from Prairie Heights High School will present “Why Do We Laugh” Friday before taking the show on the road this weekend. The one-act play written in 1982 by Stephen Gregg is this year’s competition show. Prairie Heights will compete against six other schools in theatre regionals this weekend at Bethel University. Three schools will advance to the […]
Lakeland FFA speaks to value of school farm
Some in the audience at Monday’s meeting of the Lakeland Board of Trustees had heard a rumor the board was looking to sell the school’s farm. Superintendent Greg Baker reported this is not the case. The board is, however, currently seeking to have the farm annexed into the town of LaGrange, rather than county property, which is its current situation. […]
Anna Miller
Anna H. Miller, 90, of Abbeville, S.C., died at 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 14, 2021 at her daughter’s residence in Goshen. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, November 20 also at Cold Springs Mennonite Church. Miller-Stewart Funeral Home, Middlebury, is assisting the family with arrangements.
Mary Bontrager
Mary A. Bontrager, 93, of Topeka, passed away at 11:30 a.m., on Monday, November 15, 2021 at her home of natural causes. Miller-Stewart Funeral Home, Middlebury, is handling the arrangements.
Rex Combs
Rex L. Combs, 72, of Howe, died Saturday, November 13, 2021 at Parkview LaGrange Hospital. He was born on April 4, 1949, in Sturgis, Michigan. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Frurip May Funeral Home, LaGrange.
Rebecca Neu
Rebecca “Becky” L. Neu, age 69, of LaGrange, passed away on Sunday, October 31, 2021 at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, IN. Ms. Neu was born on October 23, 1952 to the late Galen and Grace (Whirledge) Darr. Becky graduated from Prairie Heights High School then continued her education in a college. She was an activities director at […]
Dark skies tell ancient stories
The second event of the Indiana Master Naturalists’ Gathering was a show at the planetarium in the Nature Center at Turkey Run. The first fact that Naturalist Eli shared with us was that every culture on earth has made up stories based on the arrangement of the stars that they could see. Different cultures came up with different stories but […]
Births Announcements
Nov. 16 Levi and Clara (Miller) Schrock, LaGrange, a girl Dena Grace. DeWayne and Irma (Miller) Troyer, LaGrange, a boy Ethan Joe.
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Monday evening, Nov. 15, I had the privilege of attending a Lakeland School Corporation Board meeting. Having graduated from Lakeland in 1983, it is nice to get into the building occasionally and remember how things were almost (gulp!) 40 years ago when I was in high school. I will have to say that much of the building is familiar, but […]
