Hagerstown property owners are being asked to remove items, vehicles and debris that might be blocking their electric meter so that installers of new meters can access them to replace them. The project to replace the town’s about 1,080 meters is scheduled to begin at the end of August and might take a month to […]
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Meet school board candidates on TV candidate forums
Whitewater Community Television is once again providing Wayne County voters an opportunity to meet the candidates in contested races prior to the November election. WCTV is partnering with the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce and Western Wayne News on the IN Focus program, to help voters be informed of their choices when heading to […]
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Centerville honors 2 childhood cancer survivors
Centerville showed support for two strong moms and their two special sons at the Aug. 30 Centerville Christian Church blood drive honoring leukemia survivors Billy Henry and Mason Hinshaw. The blood drive marked the beginning of Community Blood Center’s September Childhood Cancer Awareness Month campaign. It totaled 51 donors, including 42 donations and eight first-time […]
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Canal Days coming this weekend
Parade, duck race, alumni gatherings return to Cambridge City Canal Days organizers hope to keep area residents’ attitudes sunny in September with an “Endless Summer” theme for this year’s festival. Visitors will notice an extra block of vendors stretched along U.S. 40 heading west toward First United Methodist Church, which offers an ice cream social, […]
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3 high schools celebrating homecoming
Three Wayne County high schools have homecoming this week, Centerville, Hagerstown and Northeastern. Homecoming at Lincoln will be next week, Sept. 12-16; and at Richmond, Sept. 19-23. Centerville Centerville will crown its homecoming king and queen during halftime at the homecoming game against Winchester on Friday. King candidates include Wade Lambright, Caleb Rose and Cameron […]
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Family Recovery Court aims to change behaviors
A year after a Wayne County court started a non-traditional program, its Family Recovery Court is seeing some success and is hoping to grow. Wayne County Family Recovery Court expands the traditional role of the non-criminal court from hearing, mediating and ordering solutions. The Family Recovery Court aim is to change behaviors of parents whose […]
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The magic ride comes to an end
The improbable run by Team Great Lakes (Hagerstown, Indiana) came to an end Tuesday afternoon, with a 10-0 loss to Team Mid-Atlantic (Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania). The players and coaches will return to Hagerstown with their heads held high. They have forever placed their names in the record of outstanding athletic achievement in Wayne County, Indiana. They will return to […]
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Little League World Series Action
Lady Luck abandons Team Great Lakes in the sixth inning. Trailing 2-1, Team Great Lakes (Hagerstown, IN) had the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning and no outs, before Nolan Cheeseman delivered a single to tie the game at 2-2. With two outs, Clark Thornburg hit a flair that would have driven […]
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WWN’s tribute to ‘Uncle Jim’ Buhl
By Brenda McLane Western Wayne News is sad to report that just before deadline, we received word that Cambridge City resident Jim Buhl lost his battle with breast cancer on Aug. 22. As I write this, it is hard to summarize all he has meant to his family, friends, church and the community. This soft-spoken […]
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Cambridge City semi driver pronounced dead after I-70 crash
Cambridge City area residents are mourning the loss of Billy Ray Ervin Jr., husband of the town’s Clerk-Treasurer Sherry Ervin, who died Sunday morning in a single vehicle roll-over crash on Interstate 70 in Indianapolis. At 8:47 a.m., Indiana State Police dispatchers began receiving 911 calls about a semi roll-over crash in the westbound lanes […]