2024-01-26 E-Edition

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Westview students receive art honors

Six Westview High School students recently had their artwork receive honors at the Scholastic Art and Writing Competi­tion. The Scholastic Art Competition is a Regional competition in which stu­dents are awarded a Gold Key, Silver Key or Honor­able Mention for their work in any medium. Oftentimes, Visual Voice and Technical skill are highly awarded in this highly competitive compe­tition. Nevaeh […]

Main Street LaGrange to host annual Chili Shuffle

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Main Street LaGrange is getting ready for flavor explosion as the Annual LaGrange Chili Shuffle, LaGrange’s most antic­ipated chili cook-off, is set to heat up the town on Feb. 10 at Linder’s Tav­ern on Main and Fireside Craft Burgers & Brews in downtown LaGrange. This culinary extrava­ganza promises to be a sizzling celebration of spice, taste, and friendly competition. Home […]

Gaff hired to lead LaGrange County Together

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Darci Stanner Gaff has been hired as the Director for LaGrange County To­gether, a countywide col­laboration to develop a bold, com­prehensive plan for the growth and pros­perity of the com­munities of LaGrange County. The LaGrange County Commissioners approved Gaff’s contract position in December 2023 to aid with the implementation of the county’s compre­hensive plan. Gaff will work with LaGrange County […]

Shipshewana Ice Festival winners named

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The Shipshewana Ice Festival had three different competitions this year: a hot wing sauce competition, a chili cook-off, and an ice-carving competi­tion. Winners and standings are as fol­lows: The Hot Wing Sauce Competition winner was Justin Contreras. Chili Cookoff winner was Jay Ch­upp of E& S Sales. Second place went to Carolyn Hostetler and third place was Rich Stoltzfus of […]

Weather Watch

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The National Weather Service is predicting a 30 percent chance of rain before 7 a.m. Fri­day. Cloudy, with a high near 40. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Cloudy, with a high near 41 Saturday. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Sunday, a 30 percent chance of rain before 1 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 38. Monday, mostly cloudy, […]

Westview students participate in Junior American Citizen contests

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The LaGrange de La­fayette DAR chapter is pleased to report that stu­dents from four Westview Elementary School class­es have participated in the Junior American Cit­izen JAC contests in Art, Creative Expression, and Community Service Proj­ects. Sixty-four entries were received from stu­dents in Ms. Huyvaert’s, Mrs. Gongwer’s, Mr. Davis’s, and Mr. Yoder’s classes. The annual theme “Sparkling in the Stars with […]

Class reunion set

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Lakeland High School class of 2004’s 20th class reunion is set for Satur­day, August 24, at Coun­try Heritage Winery in LaOtto, IN from 6-10 p.m. Classmates and teach­ers are encouraged to at­tend. For additional infor­mation, contact class president, Whitney Doyle Driver, at lhsclass­prez04@hotmail.com.

Ronald Cundiff

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Ronald G. Cundiff, 71, of LaGrange, IN, died at Parkview La­Grange Hospital on Jan­uary 23, 2024. Arrangements are by Frurip-May Funeral Home, LaGrange.

Donna Brown

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Donna Joanne Brown, 83, of Luckey, OH, for­merly of Shipshewana, passed away on Sunday, January 21, at Bowling Green Manor, Bowling Green, OH. Miller-Stewart Funer­al Home, Middlebury, is handling the arrange­ments.