Western Wayne Elementary celebrated the end of state testing and the kickoff of Passion Project Week with its first Brain Break Bash. On Friday, May 3, all students gathered for activities including painting Superintendent Andy Stover, taping Principal Elizabeth Miller to the wall, cracking eggs on counselor Matt Truesdell’s head, and pie-ing staff in the […]
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Knight archers hit their target
Northeastern High School archers performed so well at the U.S. Eastern Nationals competition that they again have the opportunity to compete in the championship tournament. The Knights’ high school team shot 3,220 on Friday, May 9, in the National Archery in the Schools Program. The Eastern Nationals took place at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. […]
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2024 primary election results
Wayne County’s Republican voters nominated candidates for judge, commissioner, clerk of courts, treasurer and coroner, along with various state and federal offices, in the 2024 primary election held today. Ronald J. “Ron” Moore won the primary race for Superior Court 1 judge with 3,000 votes, or 48%, defeating J. Clayton Miller (1,858 votes) and Austin […]
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Student wins car on 18th birthday
Marking a rite of passage to adulthood, Garen Sharp stopped at a store on the morning of his 18th birthday to test his luck. The scratch-off lottery tickets he bought May 1 at the Speedway near Meijer in Richmond turned out to be worth $83. But that was just the beginning of his good fortune […]
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Fundraising starts to improve Creitz Park
Cambridge City aims to make Creitz Park more welcoming to all area kids and families, regardless of their abilities. A crowdfunding campaign launched last week to renovate the park’s playground. If $50,000 is raised by 10 p.m. June 23, the town will receive a matching grant of the same amount through Indiana Housing and Community […]
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County considers ending mobile home taxation
Some owners of mobile and manufactured homes in Wayne County may soon be exempt from property taxation. At the April 17 joint workshop between the county’s commissioners and council members, Treasurer Nancy Funk presented the option to end assessing personal property taxes on the structures, in part as a way to reduce the work her […]
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Civic engagement pays off
What’s a problem facing your community, and how could a citizen solve it? That was the question posed to area middle-school students to launch the civics bee contest hosted by the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce on Friday, April 19 at Indiana University East. The event aims to encourage young people to engage in […]
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Council kills housing development plan 6-3
Cheers erupted from the audience after Richmond’s Common Council voted Monday night 6-3 against a proposed rezoning that was needed for a planned housing development to move forward. For close to three hours, attendees and council members spoke passionately about the issues raised by the Smith Hill Planned Unit Development. Those in favor of the […]
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Cemetery restoration largely completed
Two years after extensive damage to the historic Capitol Hill Cemetery, most of the vandalism has been repaired, and the man who’s doing the work plans to return this spring and finish it. On April 1, 2022, police and two of the volunteers who had spent years working to preserve Cambridge City’s earliest public cemetery […]
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‘Amazing’ cosmic spectacle
Cheers and chirps could be heard throughout Wayne County as residents, visitors and wildlife marveled at the rare total solar eclipse Monday afternoon. About 200 eclipse chasers from California to Maine spread out comfortably in the grass and on benches at Cope Environmental Center in Centerville. They cheered before and after the nearly 4 minutes […]