Archive - Feb 14, 2013
Indian Springs Middle School hosted a swim meet Tuesday night. Pictured above, Eagle Maggie Vandersaul swims the butterfly.
Results and more photos from Tuesdayâs meet will appear in The Post & Mail as they become available.
CHURUBUSCO â Churubusco senior Jason Nicodemus is going to end his season where dreams are made: at the state wrestling tournament in Indianapolis.
Nicodemus has already had a memorable season. Before adding a state trip to his resume, he won the NECC championship at 220 pounds and was also a sectional and regional champion.
This will be the first âBusco wrestler to advance to state in two years.
COLUMBIA CITY â Indian Springs Middle Schoolâs 8th-grade Lady Stars played host to the Lady Squires of Manchester Wednesday night.
The Lady Stars improved to 8-5 on the season with a 36-17 win over the visitors.
Mason Van Houten scored 20 points to lead Indian Springs.
Madison Hansen also chipped in 11 points. Crystal Van Houten and Justene Whitehead each scored two points and Bella Krieg added a free throw to round out the scoring for ISMS.
âWe finally put four quarters together and it paid off,â said coach Tommy Baldwin. âWe won as a team tonight.â
COLUMBIA CITY â A Churubusco man pleaded guilty to a charge of dealing in methamphetamine in Whitley County Circuit Court Monday.
Andrew Greer, 28, pleaded guilty to the Class B felony charge and will be sentenced at a later date. As part of a plea arrangement, Greer had five other charges dismissed.
COLUMBIA CITY â Today is the day for chocolates, hearts, flowers and romance â Valentineâs Day.
Students from Coesse Elementary School had plenty of ideas on how to convey love to someone on Valentineâs Day.
Brooklyn Fraunfelder, a first grader at CES suggested giving a variety of gifts.
âYou could give them a box of chocolates and a stuffed bear,â Fraunfelder said, âYou could buy them cupcakes, give them a heart pillow or a thing of heart suckers.â
Noble, a second grader at CES agrees with the gift-giving idea.
COLUMBIA CITY â Columbia Cityâs Common Council passed an amendment to the sewer service ordinance, on first reading, at Tuesdayâs meeting.
Lura M. Baublet, 88, of Bluffton, passed away at 2 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at Meadowvale Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Born in Marion on Dec. 23, 1924, to Guy Henry and LaTressie (Sailors) Comstock, she married Carl E. Baublet on May 2, 1943, in South Whitley; he passed away Dec. 1, 1999.
A 1943 graduate of South Whitley High School, she was a homemaker and also worked at the Wells County Home for 12 years.