By The Paper staff

The Community Foundation of Wabash County recently released first quarter statistics for the Promise Scholarship Program. In its second school year, 1,088 Wabash County fourth through eighth grade students are now participating in the program.
In the first quarter of the 2017-2018 school year, students earned $19,390 towards their future college and career expenses.

By completing classroom assignments, participating in college-go activities, and regularly saving money, students collectively earned another $25,950(need to add in q2 savings match) in the second quarter. In total, $45,340 was awarded to these students’ Promise Scholarship accounts for first semester.
 

By Josh Sigler
jsigler@thepaperofwabash.com

A pair of Apache Spirit Awards were handed out during the Tuesday, Jan. 16, Wabash City Schools school board meeting to student Bethany Pier and maintenance staff employee Bruce Maxwell.

“We have over the last couple years incorporated The Apache Way Spirit Award to recognize students and employees and community members who really embody the Apache Way of doing the right things the right way every day,” WCS Superintendent Jason Callahan said.
 

By The Paper staff

Live from Broadway, The Illusionists will perform at the Honeywell Center on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

This program, sponsored by D&J Radabaugh Construction, showcases the talents of five illusionists.

The Illusionists will dazzle audiences of all ages with a powerful mix of the most outrageous and astonishing acts ever to be seen on stage. 

By Josh Sigler
jsigler@thepaperofwabash.com

WABASH -- County Commissioner Scott Givens revealed Tuesday, Jan. 16 that he will not seek re-election.

Givens, who is completing his third term as county commissioner, said time restraints are causing him to step away.

“I’m just more involved in my business, and the meetings here take a lot more time than they did initially 12 years ago,” Givens said. “We do a lot more attendance of meetings and discussions.”
 

By Josh Sigler
jsigler@thepaperofwabash.com

The Wabash City Schools school board heard a presentation about the prospects of a promising business class program during the Tuesday, Jan. 16, meeting at the L.H. Carpenter Center.

Uncharted Learning's Incubatoredu is a program geared toward helping students incorporate a business-centric base into their regular curriculum.
 

By Joseph Slacian
jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com

G. Ryan Short became the second candidate for Wabash County Sheriff to file his candidacy papers for the May Primary Election.

Short filed Tuesday to seek the Republican nomination for the post now held by Sheriff Bob Land.

Land is finishing his second term and is prohibited by state statute from seeking a third consecutive term.
 

By Josh Sigler
jsigler@thepaperofwabash.com

The storied Blizzard of 1978 is still remembered vividly in and around the Wabash area.

The storm produced 55 mph winds and over a foot of snow over much of Indiana between Jan. 25 and Jan. 27 that year, creating snow drifts of up to 10 to 20 feet and prompting then-Gov. Otis R. Bowen to declare a snow emergency.

For then-North Manchester resident Regina Ousley, the memories are vivid beyond imagination. She gave birth at home during the storm, an event which received attention in North Manchester and Wabash newspapers. She shared her incredible tale with The Paper recently.
 

By David Fenker
david@nmpaper.com

NORTH MANCHESTER -- A local company recently purchased property just south of North Manchester as an option to relocate its office.

Midwest Poultry Services, which operates farms in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, purchased about 15 acres at auction last week.

“We have outgrown our current office in Mentone,” Midwest Poultry Services General Manager Dan Krouse said.  “It was our hatchery until about 2001, and was not intended to house the roughly 25 people working there now.