2022-04-29
LaGrange County parks provide array of opportunities
Nature’s Best —It may be safe to think about spring. I think I saw my last junco of the season on Saturday, April 23. No juncos visible today, Sunday, but I did see some migraters passing through — a northern waterthrush and a hermit thrush. There was a map circulating on Facebook from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology showing where migration was […]

Judith Perkins
Judith Cramer Perkins died on April 25, 2022. She was born in Sturgis, Michigan on April 29, 1939, to James Schaeffer and Marian Davidson Merritt. As a child she was raised at Howe Military School in Howe where her father was Commandant of Cadets. She was baptized at St. James Chapel on the school campus. She attended school at Lima […]

Marshall Doig
Marshall J. Doig, 77, of LaGrange died Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Life Care Center of LaGrange. M r . Doig was born on December 13, 1944, in Queensland, Australia to John Doig and Winifred Alice Richardson. Living most of his life in Australia, he moved to LaGrange in September of 2005. While living in Australia he operated a bakery […]

WARM OUTREACH–
Lakeland National Honor Society members, including Gabby Hartman, Brooklynn Olinger, Lilly Schackow, Carly Rasbaugh and Peyton Hartsough, made 50 blankets for Ark Animal Rescue and Adoption, Millers Merry Manor and Life Care. “It was a fun experience creating these blankets. It is nice to know they are going to people that will appreciate them,” NHS Vice President Amelia Trump said.
Birth Announcements
April 25 Steven & Vera (Otto) Yoder, Topeka, a boy, Maciah Jon. April 26 Alvin & Christina Schrock, LaGrange, a girl, LeAnn.