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KC & The Sunshine Band to perform at Ford Theater
Harry Wayne Casey – better know as KC – will biring KC and the Sunshine to the Honeywell Center’s Ford for a July 2 concert.
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By Joseph Slacian
It’s been more than 40 years since Harry Wayne Casey burst upon the music scene.
Casey, better known as KC, leader of KC and the Sunshine Band, has been getting people out on the dance floor with his sound that is a mixture of R&B and pop that spawned dance music.
KC will bring his unique sound to the Honeywell Center’s Ford Theater for a 7:30 p.m. show on July 2.
WCS Board approve administrator salaries
By Emma Rausch
Two Wabash City Schools administrators received raises following the School Board’s approval on Monday, June 13.
The board approved raises for Chief Business Officer Matt Stone and O.J. Neighbours Assistant Principal Josh Blossom, both of which took over additional administrative duties this year.
“The only changes from the (2015)-16 year to the 16-17 year are Mr. Stone comes with a $10,000 increase,” Superintendent Jason Callahan said.
Retired Grissom commander gets Key to the City
Mayor Scott Long presents Col. Douglas Schwartz (Ret.) the Key to the City.
Photo by Joseph Slacian
By Joseph Slacian
Col. Douglas Schwartz, the retired 434th Air Refueling wing commander at Grissom Air Reserve Base, is the latest recipient of the Key to the City of Wabash.
Schwartz, who retired in May, received the honor from Mayor Scott Long during the June 13 Wabash City Council meeting.
City Schools handbooks updated; changes made to unexcused absences
By Emma Rausch
Wabash City Schools students will no longer have six allowed absences per semester and it’s for the better, according to Laura Sigler, Wabash Middle School (WMS) vice principal.
Sigler met with the Wabash City Schools Board Monday, June 13, to update the board on the middle school’s student handbook changes, the majority of which were to the attendance policy.
“I found out that we weren’t 100 percent compliant with the Indiana code for attendance as well as recommendations by the Department of Education,” Sigler told the board.
Wabash man facing drug charges following trespass report
Justin H. Huttinger
By The Paper staff
A Wabash man was arrested on drug-related charges Thursday morning, June 16, after he was reported trespassing.
According to a news release from Sgt. Matt Benson, Wabash Police Department Public Information Officer:
At approximately 12:24 a.m., Wabash Police Department officers responded to Village Pantry, located at 204 Stitt St., for a report of a subject trespassing in the store.
LaFontaine man charged in connection to January burglary
Shane McCray
By Emma Rausch
LAFONTAINE – A LaFontaine man has been arrested on felony charges in connection to a Jan. 24 burglary of a Branson Street residence.
Shane W. McCray, 27, was booked into the Wabash County Jail on Saturday, June 11, on the charges of felony burglary wherein the building or structure is a dwelling, felony conspiracy to commit burglary and misdemeanor theft of less than $750.
McCray’s arrest follows a five-month Wabash County Sheriff’s Department investigation.
Wabash man pleads guilty to dealing methamphetamine charge
Timothy Thrailkill
By Emma Rausch
A Wabash man was sentenced Monday, June 13, to more than a decade in the Indiana Department of Corrections for dealing in methamphetamine.
Timothy D. Thrailkill, 44, pleaded guilty to the felony charge on April 25 and sentenced Monday to 15 years in the IDOC with three years suspended with probation.
Thrailkill was originally arrested in April 2015 in connection with an alleged narcotics lab at his residence on Calhoun Street.
Accident damages several utility poles
A concrete mixer snared some overhead lines Thursday morning, June 16, and caused considerable damage to poles along Stitt Street.
Photo by Joseph Slacian
By Joseph Slacian
A driver from Speedway Sand & Gravel snared his concrete mixer into overhead lines Thursday morning, causing considerable damage to poles along Stitt Street.
The driver, Randall D. France, 48, North Manchester, told Wabash Police that he was delivering a load of concrete to 541 Delaware St. and that when he turned off of Stitt Street, the top of his concrete mixer became caught in an overhead wire.
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