By Joseph Slacian

A Wabash resident will retain his post as director of a State of Indiana department.

Governor-elect Eric Holcomb announced on Friday, Dec. 16, that he was reappointing the five agency and department heads who will report to Lieutenant Governor-elect Suzanne Crouch.

John Gouveia and Troy Baer (from left) read plaques they were presented at the MSD of Wabash County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 13. Gouveia and Baer left the board after their terms expired this year. Photo by Emma Rausch

By Emma Rausch

MSD of Wabash County Board of Education members John Gouveia and Troy Baer bid their goodbyes Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the group’s final meeting of the year.

After serving eight years on the board, both Gouveia and Baer’s terms expired this year.

The plans to develop along the Wabash River will continue forward after the Wabash Marketplace Inc. designs committee reached its $50,000 fund raising goal by Dec. 31. Photo provided

By Joseph Slacian

Plans for a development along the Wabash River, just west of the Wabash Street bridge, has raised its needed funding to receive a state matching grant.

The Wabash Marketplace Inc. design committee needed to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31 to qualify for a $50,000 matching grant from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Agency’s “CreatINg Places.”

Wabash City firemen responded to an overturned vehicle on Wednesday, Dec. 21, in which two Urbana residents were entrapped following a single-vehicle accident. Photo by Emma Rausch

By Emma Rausch

An Urbana man was injured Wednesday, Dec. 21, following a single-vehicle accident on U.S. 24.

According to a Wabash County Sheriff’s Department report:

At around 1:30 p.m., a 2005 Jeep Liberty driven by Andrea M. Lee, 48, Urbana, was westbound on U.S. 24 in the passing lane when she went to pass another vehicle by merging into the driving lane.

“Capt.” Brenton Yarger (right) poses with Wabash Police Officer Larry Long. Long is a longtime mentor of Brenton’s. Photo by Joseph Slacian

By Joseph Slacian

The Wabash Police Department has a new captain.

Northfield Jr.-Sr. High School student Brenton Yarger received his honorary captain bars from Mayor Scott Long and Wabash Police Assistant Chief Bob Pilgrim during a brief ceremony prior to the start of the Shop With a Cop program on Saturday, Dec. 17.

Brenton raised more than $9,500 for the Shop With a Cop program by standing outside of Walmart several weekends in October and November, dressed in his police uniform. He also recycled aluminum cans and other metals, and received donations from friends and family members.

Brenton, during the ceremony, was rather subdued and, by his own admission, surprised by the gift.