By Joseph Slacian
jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com

Changes are afoot at a longtime Wabash business.

Pefley's Farm Equipment  is now offering the new Kubota line, company officials told The Paper of Wabash County on Monday, April 16.

In addition, the firm now has a second location in Greentown known as Dirt-N-Turf.

In the near future, they said, they will be relocating their current facilities inside of Wabash County. Pefley's will have a name change once in the new location.
 

By David Fenker
david@nmpaper.com

In a brief meeting Monday, April 16, the Wabash County Commissioners approved purchase of a replacement truck for the county's highway department.

Highway Superintendent John Martin presented the request.

“The next item I have is to request purchasing a 2018 GMC pickup truck from Dorais Chevrolet for $41,611,” Martin said after presenting two other requests. “While this quote was not the low quote, the low quote didn't meet the specs that we had sent out.”
 

By Joseph Slacian
jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com

A man of integrity who worked hard to help better the City of Wabash.

That is how former Wabash Clerk-Treasurer Meredith “Brownie” Brown is being remembered. Mr. Brown, 81, passed away Friday, April 6, at his home in Goodyear, Ariz.

A graduate of International Business College in Fort Wayne, Mr. Brown spent 36 years as date processing manager at Wabash Magnetics.

In 1996 he was elected to the post of Wabash Clerk-Treasurer, an office he served in for 16 years before retiring in 2012.
 

Officials hope to save ornate brickwork on the west entrances of the old Roann School, among other things. Photo by Joseph Slacian. 

By Joseph Slacian

jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com

ROANN – Three firms submitted bids on Tuesday, April 10, to raze the old Roann school building.

The Roann Town Council received bids from:

Dore & Associates Contracting, Bay City, Mich., for $256,662.

Strebig Construction, Fort Wayne, $347,611.

Merrit & Son Excavating, Kokomo, $320,250.
 

A Wabash County dump truck plowed into an Urbana home on April 11. Photo by Joseph Slacian.

By Josh Sigler
jsigler@thepaperofwabash.com

A dump truck hauling a load of gravel crashed into an Urbana home just after 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, April 11.

According to a crash report provided by the Wabash County Sheriff’s Department, authorities responded to reports of a dump truck crashing into a house on State Road 13 near the intersection of College Street in Urbana at approximately 1:13 p.m. Wednesday.

The driver, Jeffrey A. Weimann, 63, Roann, explained that he was northbound on State Road 13, but that he did not know why his truck ran off the roadway and struck the residence at 210 South State Road 13.

From the MU News Bureau

NORTH MANCHESTER – Manchester University will break ground on the Lockie and Augustus Chinworth Center at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 11.

The ceremony will be at the site of the building, in the greenspace north of the Jo Young Switzer Center.

The $8.5 million Chinworth Center is set to open at the start of the 2019-20 academic year, adding 36,000 square feet to be used for student learning and services.
 

Janet Halderman explains to Southwood third graders the significance of paintings in the Drawing Room of the Honeywell House on Thursday, April 12. Around 300 students in the area took tours of the Honeywell House throughout the week. 

By The Paper staff

The Wabash Unit of the women’s committee of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra hosted its 14th-annual tour of the Honeywell House for the third grade classes in Wabash area schools the week of April 9.

The event coincides with the students’ social studies history standards that require students to describe how significant people, events and developments have shaped their own community and region.

The students toured 10 rooms in the home, and had a variety of objects explained to them by committee members.
 

By The Paper Staff

Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau are seeking nominations for the 2018 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation. The award recognizes the preservation and continued agricultural use of historic farm buildings in Indiana.

Anyone, including farm owners, can submit a nomination for the Arnold Award, which will be presented during the Indiana State Fair in August 2018. The nomination asks for:

A brief history of the farm and description of its significant historic structures and features, such as the farmhouse, barns, agricultural outbuildings, and landscape elements.

A description of how the farm’s historic agricultural structures are used in day-to-day farming operations, and how they have been preserved or adapted.

High-res digital photographs of the farm and its preserved historic features.