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By HOLLY GASKILL The Bluffton Parks Department’s Kehoe Concert series has received a new $4,000 grant from the Indiana Commission for the Arts. In a meeting of the park board Thursday, Parks ...

LaNae Abnet spoke at Ouabache State Park about the benefits and process of dehydrating meals for later use. Crystal, back, ...

Norwell High School’s first football coach has died. Reported by Ken Fillmore of KPC Media Group, the long-time football coach Jim Dilbone died Friday morning. Dilbone was the all-time wins leader as ...

By HOLLY GASKILL A second Wells County resident has died as a result of Tuesday’s crash on Main Street near Willowbrook Road in Bluffton. Elizabeth A. Bayless, 90, of Bluffton, was transported from ...

Norwell defeated both Jay County and Woodlan in girls’ golf on the road Thursday. The Knights teed off in Portland and shot a 191 overall, led by Ellie Gatton’s 40 and was the medalist, followed by ...

Though it’s just a scrimmage, the wait for football is finally over. The Bluffton Tigers hosted the Garrett Railroaders in Bluffton Friday night. The first game for Bluffton will be next week at ...

Someday, someone will plant two trees somewhere to honor Bob Tricker. Almost certainly, everyone who sees that tree will not know Bob, let alone know that someone planted those trees in his honor. But ...

By SAMANTHA SAAD Norwell Community Schools is considering a general obligation bond for a total lump sum they could gradually issue over multiple years. Rather than approve a single bond one year for ...

By HOLLY GASKILL Fundraising efforts for a new community pool have officially garnered over $1.2 million in donations, pledges and grants. The new “Wells County Community Aquatic Park,” as it was ...

Freedom Motors of Bluffton raised $1,000 to Bluffton Youth Baseball with a test drive event this summer. Above, director of Bluffton Youth Baseball Zach Bedwell (left) holds the check presented by ...

Cash Rumple, representing Wells County 4-H, is the 2024 Indiana State Fair 4-H Champion Senior Beef Showman. He will return to the fair on Sunday to compete against nine other students in the Supreme ...