By Eric Christiansen

More than 600 schools around the United States applied. Fifty-seven were selected. Manchester Junior-Senior High School was one of the 57.

The MJSHS Physics and Engineering team was one of 57 teams from around the country to win the NASA TechRise Student Challenge, which gives the students an opportunity to launch their experiment on a NASA-sponsored flight.

The Manchester team, led by MJSHS teachers Aaron Hooks (engineering) and Terry Pierce (physics) consists of Gabe Case, Kolby Haecker, Lacey Pierce, Sam Ayres, Soeren Koerber, Alex Gomez-Ramirez, Alfonso Ruiz-Catano, and Jackson Austin, found out they were selected on Friday, Jan. 21.

A Marion man has entered a not guilty plea in Wabash Circuit Court on two counts of child seduction and one count of possession of child pornography.

By Phil Smith

The need to keep hallways clean and trash cans emptied is becoming more and more of a challenge at Wabash City Schools, if reports at the corporation’s Jan. 18 board of trustees meeting is any indicator. The topsy-turvy job market borne out of the Covid-19 era has played havoc with employers everywhere and WCS is no exception.

“Our goal is to try to find people, but it’s hard right now,” said WCS Business Manager Matt Stone at the board meeting last week.

By Phil Smith

Wabash City Schools is taking steps to dissolve at least 600 inactive accounts totaling at least $3,000.

“We have 600 inactive accounts that are not our students,” said Wabash City Schools Business Manager Matt Stone at the corporation’s regular board of trustees meeting Jan. 18.

By Joseph Slacian

A former Wabash County resident will have her artwork on display at the Warsaw City Hall through March 31.

Madelene Bussert will have roughly 40 pieces of work – watercolor, acrylic, resin mirrors, paper Mache and more – on display through March 31.

“I am really honored to be chosen for the Warsaw exhibit,” she told The Paper of Wabash County.

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By Joseph Slacian

Officials with the Wabash Carnegie Public Library are cautiously hopeful that bids they will receive early in February will allow them to continue with plans to expand the facility.

The board is seeking bids to add a two-story, 4,400-square-foot addition to the building, located at the intersection of West Hill Street and South Cass Street.

Talks about expanding the facility have been in the works for at least eight years. The library board has been working with MKM, an architect and design firm from Fort Wayne.

By Phil Smith

Anthony Bourdain said “Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.”

If that’s the case, Mark Hunt could be making things around Wabash a lot more quiet and peaceful, the result of everyone’s mouth being full of ribs, chicken or some other tastefully seasoned entrée.

“We’re going to open up a real simple, Carolina-style barbecue,” Hunt said last week. “I tell people that barbecue is like the Field of Dreams, if you have good barbecue, the people will come.”