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NM council OKs industry requests
By David Fenker
 
NORTH MANCHESTER – The town’s newest industry received a helping hand from the North Manchester Town Council Wednesday night.
 
The council approved both a rezoning recommendation from the town’s Plan Commission and a 10-year tax abatement, recommended by Grow Wabash County, for Warsaw-based Precision Medical Technologies at its Dec. 6 meeting.
 
Last week, the company announced plans to bring more than 60 jobs to North Manchester in the next three to four years, starting as early as March.
 
Posted on 2017 Dec 19
Board cuts costs of Honeywell Park work
By Joseph Slacian
 
Honeywell Park will have smaller pavilion and, because of that, a smaller price tag.
 
The Wabash Board of Parks and Recreation on Wednesday, Dec. 13, voted to decrease the size of the pavilion at the park. That move will save more than $45,000 from the cost of the project.
 
A group of anonymous donors contacted the city earlier this year, indicating they were willing to help pay for improvements to the pavilion at Honeywell Park, as well as relocating the basketball courts, and putting in concrete pads around the tennis courts to make room for bleachers.
 
Posted on 2017 Dec 19
Dreama’s Restaurant has ribbon cutting

Candace Coe cuts the ribbon at Dreama’s Restaurant while officials from the city, Grow Wabash County and the restaurant look on. Photo by Joseph Slacian

By Joseph Slacian

Candace Coe honored her mother, Dreama, by naming her new restaurant after her.

“I always loved that name,” Coe said Saturday, Dec. 16, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the restaurant she and her fiancé, Samuel Velasquez, opened at 1950 S. Wabash St. “She always wanted a granddaughter named after her. She had 16 grandchildren, and none were named after her, so I named the restaurant after her.”

Coe and Velasquez acquired the restaurant, most recently known as Michael’s, earlier this year. The name officially changed to Dreama’s Restaurant about four weeks ago.

Posted on 2017 Dec 19
Commissioners OK wind, CFO ordinance changes
By David Fenker
 
Both commercial wind farms and Confined Feeding Operations (CFOs) are more difficult to bring to Wabash County after the passage of two new ordinances by the county commissioners.
 
Ordinance 2017-85-09 places further restrictions on Wind Energy Conservation Systems (WECS), and Ordinance 2017-85-10 makes the county's previous CFO ordinance more strict.
 
Posted on 2017 Dec 19
Judicial Center updates, repair approved
By David Fenker
 
County Coordinator/HR Director Jim Dils normally doesn't bring much before the county commissioners.
 
At the commissioners' Dec. 18 meeting, however, Dils had four items regarding the Wabash County Judicial Center that needed action by the commissioners: Phase Two of the building's WiFi update, a new workstation for the Superior Court, replacement of the south door and removal of large bookshelves from the room used for day reporting.
 
“We'd now like to implement Phase Two, which would service the second floor of the Judicial Center,” Dils said.
 
Posted on 2017 Dec 19
'Kristy's' revives Akron’s favorite recipes
By David Fenker
 
AKRON -- After working the restaurant business in Akron most of her life, Kristy Nelson had to go back.
 
“It's all I've ever done. I worked there for 18 years before the doors closed,” Nelson said.
 
Nelson worked for Sloane's Fine Food and Spirits, located just off State Road 14 at 108 E. Rochester St. in Akron, until financial troubles forced the bar to shut down.

After about a year and a half of working in restaurants around Wabash County, Nelson and her husband, Christopher, purchased what became Kristy's Hometown Bar and Grill.

 

Posted on 2017 Dec 19
MCS board approves pay increase
By David Fenker
 
NORTH MANCHESTER -- Most administrative staff at Manchester Community Schools will receive a 4 percent pay increase for the 2017-2018 school year.
 
The MCS board of school trustees voted 7-0 to approve the increase, which affects building principals, office staff and others, at its Tuesday, Dec. 12, meeting.
 
Interim Superintendent Mike Pettibone recommended the increase.
 
Posted on 2017 Dec 19
Memorial park to receive new tree
By Joseph Slacian
 
The Dave Rich Memorial Park will receive a new tree, thanks in part to the Wabash Fraternal Order of Police.
 
The Wabash Park Board on Wednesday, Dec. 13, approved removing the tree that is in the center of the park, and replacing it with a smaller, more manageable tree.
 
Posted on 2017 Dec 19

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