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Centerville, Northeastern cheer teams advance to state

Centerville and Northeastern cheerleaders have advanced to a state championship. Squads competed Saturday, Oct. 21, at North Central High School in the Indiana Cheer Championship varsity preliminaries. It’s a program of Indiana Association of School Principals. During the previous weekend’s competition at Clinton Central, the Bulldogs competed in UCA Game Day and Traditional-Varsity C and placed […]

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Teens explore manufacturing careers

More than 300 Wayne County high school students are touring seven local manufacturers this month, possibly inspiring some of them to work in one soon. Economic Development Corp. of Wayne County organized the Oct. 6 tours for Richmond, Northeastern, Lincoln and Hagerstown students at Madison-Kipp, Ahaus Tool & Engineering, Blue Buffalo, Transcendia, SugarCreek and Dot […]

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Northeastern HS accepting mural donations

A fund has been established for donations toward restoration of a mural in the Northeastern High School gym. The Northeastern Wayne schools board set up the fund during its Sept. 20 meeting. Donations can be sent to the high school with a notation that the money is to go toward the gym mural. The mural […]

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Centerville alone at top of TEC standings

The biggest game of the season in Tri-Eastern Conference football went to the Centerville Bulldogs. Centerville and Northeastern, the only two teams without a conference loss, met Friday, Sept. 22, on Marlin Craig Field, for Centerville’s homecoming. Fueled by the energy of their largest crowd of the season, the Bulldogs built a 13-0 lead after […]

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BZA approves U.S. 27 location for livestock auction

Wayne County will have a livestock auction. Midway Auction Barn LLC and Omer Kauffman received approval Sept. 14 from the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals to locate an auction facility along U.S. 27 north of Fountain City. The BZA had previously denied a petition to locate the auction on Helm Road south of Williamsburg. Five […]

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Livestock auction returns to BZA

A livestock auction facility in Wayne County made sense, but a Helm Road location adjacent to The Barn at Helm flower farm and event space drew opposition. Comments to the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals often followed that line of thinking: The idea would benefit county farmers, but that location didn’t work. The BZA on […]