Local News Briefs
WINAMAC - The Winamac Community High School drama department will stage The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 as its 2024 fall production to be presented the weekend of Nov. 8-10, at the WCHS Auditorium.
Productions will be performed at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8 and 9; and a matinee at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 10. Pre-sale, seat-specific tickets will go on sale beginning Monday, Oct. 28 at the high school.
The annual Pulaski County Veterans Day Service will begin at 11 a.m., Monday (Nov. 11), on the front lawn of the VFW in Winamac (166 S. Monticello St.). The change of traditional venue is due to the ongoing construction work at the county courthouse.
The event is organized by the American Legion Post No. 71 and VFW Post. No. 1728, both of Winamac.
FRANCESVILLE – The Uptown Project of Francesville will hold its annual Outdoor Holiday Market, which also includes a 5K event, on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 9.
Events will run from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., centered on Francesviille’s downtown streets.
Pulaski County taxpayers are reminded by the Pulaski County Treasurer's Office that the fall installment of property taxes are due by 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Taxpayers may make payments in person on weekdays between Oct. 21 and Nov. 12 at one of two county locations. Tax payments may also be mailed to the county treasurer's office, paid online, or paid at one of three county banks.
The Pulaski County Public Library has listed its programs and activities for November. They include the annual “Our Heroes’ Tree,” a food drive, a recycling of old eyeglasses program, a Golden Experiences Art Exhibit, nature programs, and a Medicare 101 session.
For more information on any program, call the library at 574-946-3432 or visit the library’s website at www.pulaskicounty.lib.in.us.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Rudy Yakym (IN-02) has announced that his staff will hold mobile office hours in Pulaski County Nov. 13, in Winamac.
Yakym’s mobile office will visit throughout Indiana's Second District in November to assist constituents with casework questions.
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Indiana News
EAST LANSING, MI – Small rain showers helped to ease dusty harvest conditions across Indiana last week, which allowed farmers to make swift harvest progress, according to Nathanial Warenski, state statistician, USDA NASS, Indiana Field Office.
Topsoil moisture levels increased from the previous week, with 26 percent rated adequate or surplus. The average temperature for the week was 55.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 4.6 degrees above normal for the state. The statewide average precipitation was 0.29 inches, 0.36 inches below normal.
PORTAGE (Nov. 5) – The Northwest Indiana Forum recently hired Olivia Allen as the membership and marketing events coordinator. Allen will be working with key stakeholders to execute events and marketing strategies. She will also manage membership and sponsorships.
The Northwest Indiana Forum is the regional economic development organization dedicated to jobs and capital investment in harmony with the environment for Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Starke, Jasper, Newton and Pulaski counties.
MERRILLVILLE – In recognition of Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month in November, NIPSCO urges customers to beware of the “Silent Killer” that claims the lives of hundreds of Americans each year.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, tasteless, and non-corrosive gas that is produced when fuels (such as gasoline, wood, natural gas, propane or oil) burn incompletely. While natural gas does not contain CO, it can be generated when there is insufficient oxygen for fuels to burn correctly.
Pulaski County's unemployment rate dipped to 3.6 percent in September, down from 3.8 percent in August, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development reported Monday, (Oct. 28). The rate was 2.5 percent a year ago.
The state's September unemployment rate was 4.3 percent (seasonally adjusted), up from 4.2 percent in August. The August 2023 rate was 3.5 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in August (seasonally adjusted), down fractionally from 4.2 percent in August. A year ago, the national rate was 3.8 percent.
Indiana COVID-19 News
INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 29) - The Indiana Department of Health reported Oct. 29 that COVID-like illness emergency department visits numbered 293 from Oct. 16-22, up two from its previous weekly report.
There were no state COVID-19 hospital admissions (Oct. 20-26) unchanged from the week before. The state reported one death in the seven-day period (reflects confirmed COVID deaths reported to IDH).
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Post News
The Pulaski County Commissioners and Pulaski County Emergency Management lifted the burn ban for the county at 12:45 p.m., Wednesday (Nov. 6).
The ban had been in effect since Oct. 8.
Returns by precinct now posted
Republicans Jenny Halleck Knebel and Don Street Jr. will be Pulaski County’s new commissioners in January, following the results of the 2024 General Election Tuesday.
In addition to the new county commissioner, the county elected one new member to the Winamac Town Council, and two new members to the Eastern Pulaski School Board in contested races.
Five students from two area high schools have been named finalists in the Community Foundation of Pulaski County Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship process, which is a merit-based scholarship in the county.
The finalists are: Jalie Glasford from West Central High School, and Corrin Combs, Claire Goodman, Kamryn Huddleston and Linzy Walters from Winamac Community High School.
FRANCESVILLE – Alliance Bank employees, as part of their ongoing “Casual for a Cause” program have made a donation of $2,400 to the Mary T. Klinker Veterans Resource Center in Boswell, west of Lafayette.
The new “Restoring Hope” facility is being set up at the former Boswell National Guard Armory with a mission to restore hope to veterans who have become lost in life through financial assistance, peer support and the facilitation of a veteran-centered approach to healing.
WINAMAC – LifeWise Academy, a new optional program offering for students in grades 1-5 at Eastern Pulaski Elementary School, opened Monday (Oct. 21) as students returned from fall break.
LifeWise is a non-profit, privately-funded, Released Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI) program that provides Bible-based education to public school students. Founded in 2018 in Ohio, the academy now has programs in 29 states serving a projected 50,000 students in the 2024-25 school year.
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