As some community festivals find it harder to keep going, Williamsburg Community Days is growing, slow and steady. This year’s two-day celebration stayed busy all of Friday and started out that way Saturday. Four or five men watched from a picnic table under a tent as a crowd came and left the Williamsburg Lions Club’s […]
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Picture honors RPD officer’s memory
Officer Seara Burton’s mother, Jennifer Miller, stretched to place a blue flower next to her daughter’s picture on the End of Watch: Ride to Remember trailer. Burton is one of the 380 officers killed in 2022 and 2023 whose sacrifice is being remembered by the Beyond the Call of Duty tour, which began June 1 […]
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Animal welfare solutions need funding
Sara Pizano told about 60 people July 18 that Wayne County’s animal welfare problems are not unique. They’re the same problems the animal welfare strategist finds in communities across the country. The good news, Pizano said, is that there are solutions. “I promise you that everything you’re facing here is common to every other organization […]
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Driver, friend live their racing dreams
Presley Sorah isn’t the only Cambridge City lad who is living the dream on a national racing circuit. Among the crew helping him is a lifetime friend, Gavin Newton. “Presley and I have been two peas in a pod since fourth grade,” Newton said on July 18 as he readied Sorah’s No. 12 Camry for […]
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4 Wayne County bands in contests’ Top 10
Two Wayne County bands again placed in the Top 5 during the second weekend of regional band contests leading to Indiana State Fair’s Band Day. Ten schools competed Friday, July 19, at Jay County Fairgrounds. Centerville finished second (66.175 points) to Muncie Central (68.425). Jay County was third (61.25); Winchester, fourth (57.85); and Yorktown, fifth […]
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Wayne County confronts ILEARN results
State testing results indicate that students in most Wayne County school districts are struggling with academic performance in English and math. While many performed close to Indiana’s statewide proficiency percentages, most districts demonstrated well below 50% proficiency. Only approximately 25% of students in the county’s largest school district are considered proficient. Indiana Department of Education […]
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911, businesses affected by global software bug
The world woke up Friday, July 19, to news of a software bug affecting flights, banking, broadcasters, health care and emergency operations, and Wayne County residents and businesses weren’t immune. “Due to the Crowdstrike outage, our 911 center was impacted through our vendor. Both our emergency and non-emergency lines have been moved to our backup […]
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Board hears financing option for demolition, tech needs
Centerville-Abington Community Schools conducted a preliminary hearing July 10 regarding financing to demolish its annex building and former administration office and to cover technology expenses. School officials closed the annex, where older Centerville-Abington Elementary students attended after new classrooms were added to the school building. Some board members had favored restoring the annex until learning […]
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Jubilee Days will be mix of tradition, new
Jubilee Days – Hagerstown’s annual end-of-summer festival – will return this year with familiar activities and with many changes. Organizers who volunteered to run the festival have issued a schedule and announced plans to move nearly all activities to the north side of town on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3. “We had eight […]
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Centerville schools promote 2 to principalships
Two educators familiar to Centerville-Abington Community Schools will lead Centerville Senior High and Rose Hamilton Elementary. On July 10, the school board promoted Brian Bellew, who had been Centerville Junior High principal, and Diana Hill, formerly Centerville-Abington Elementary assistant principal. Superintendent Mike McCoy said teachers already are expressing excitement about those hires. Two interview committees, composed […]