Archive - 2012
January 30th
ALBION — The Churubusco Lady Eagle basketball team, fresh off a win over South Adams that broke an eight-game losing streak, traveled to Northeast Corner Conference foe Central Noble with the two-fold intent of extending their own winning streak and keeping the 0-17 Lady Cougars winless.
It took every minute of regulation and four minutes of overtime for ‘Busco to accomplish both feats in a come-from-behind 49-45 win.
COLUMBIA CITY – If Whitley Countians think it's been a mild winter so far . . . well, be prepared for a warm-up!
Starting Tuesday expect highs in the low 50s and upper 40s through mid-week with some precipitation. After that, temperatures "drop" to the low 40s and 30s.
Not bad for late January and early February in Northeast Indiana!
The National Weather Service forecast for Monday-Sunday:
TODAY MONDAY...CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
.TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH.
January 27th
Cleveland Township firemen respond to the scene of a house fire in Larwill Friday morning.
Columbia City's student section was colored blue Friday night for the boys basketball team's prostate cancer awareness night.
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City’s boys basketball team was feeling a little extra blue after losing its second game in a row Friday night. The Eagles wore blue jerseys in support of prostate cancer awareness and auctioned them during the game, raising over $3,000.
Unfortunately, Columbia City (10-3) wasn’t as successful on the court, losing 69-63 to New Haven (9-2).
CHURUBUSCO — Churubusco Eagle basketball came into Friday’s game looking to extend its winning record to 8-5, hosting Northeast Corner Conference rival Central Noble. ’Busco did so in a convincing fashion, downing the Cougars, 60-43.
In the first half, the game provided the typical feel of an intra-conference rivalry game, according to Churubusco Head Coach Michael McBride.
“It was a good battle, a good game; big rivalry, big crowds. (There was) a lot of excitement and intensity out there. It’s a great atmosphere for our kids and a great win for our kids tonight,†McBride said.
Doris Boggs had to wait awhile for her interview. Illness, a crazy start to the New Year, and a death in my family kept postponing our time together.
In typical Doris fashion, when I called to reschedule…again…she said, “I was just praying and thinking about your family and the funeral ALL DAY during that awful weather.â€
It felt wonderful to know Doris had been praying…but I was not surprised.
Doris was gracious, as usual, as she ushered me past her husband, Bob, and into the dining room area of her home. Bob and Doris have hung around together for a long time—65 years to be exact.
SOUTH WHITLEY — History came alive for fifth-grade students at South Whitley Elementary School earlier this week.
Kevin Stonerock gave the students a living history lesson.
Stonerock hails from central Indiana and has given more than 3,000 presentations since 1978.
Dressed in authentic period clothing, he had a high degree of historic authenticity with attention to detail and dialect.
The students studied the mid-1700s in their history classes.
SOUTH WHITLEY — Residents of South Whitley should brace themselves for yet another electrical price increase which has been on the town council agenda recently.
Effective with March billing, consumers will notice an increase of .0022839 per kilowatt-hour in the electrical portion of their billing, which calculates to $1.42 per 500 kilowatts used.
COLUMBIA CITY — Mary Louise Zuber, 74, Columbia City, passed away at 8:10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2011, at her residence.
She was born on July 17, 1937, in Fort Wayne, the daughter of Alexander and Dorothy (Kohel) Fox.
She attended Central Catholic High School, Fort Wayne and then married Wayne A. Zuber on Oct. 16, 1954, in Fort Wayne.
She was a homemaker and lived in Fort Wayne until 1990, moving to their lake home in Wolcottville for 17 years and has lived in Columbia City the past four years.
