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Stu­dents in Con­ti­nen­tal Local Schools col­lected foods to restock two food pantries in Put­nam County. The dona­tions help the Con­ti­nen­tal United Methodist Church, and the Dupont Church of the Brethren feed fam­i­lies once a month on the fourth Tues­day. Those indi­vid­u­als sign up for the pro­gram. Accord­ing to Methodist Church …

It’s Christ­mas at the Defi­ance Area Foun­da­tion, and Santa is actu­ally Jack and Diane Wahl, whose $50,000 gift will make a dif­fer­ence in the area. Half of the dona­tion is ear­marked for the com­mu­nity unre­stricted fund and the other $25k will fund the Wahl fam­ily donor advised pro­gram. The foun­da­tion …

Two per­sons were injured in a three vehi­cle col­li­sion on U.S. 6 near Water­loo. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart­ment says 27-year-old Haley Chisholm of But­ler was pulling an empty horse trailer and try­ing to turn into a dri­ve­way on Tues­day after­noon. Her vehi­cle was struck on the pas­sen­ger side by …

The LaGrange County Sheriff’s Depart­ment and Indi­ana State Police went to a home on East County Road 400 South look­ing for Arielle Aldrich. She had a war­rant for fail­ure to appear and when police found her, they found ille­gal drugs and items from recent burglaries. Arielle Aldrich and two other …

St. John Lutheran Church in Hicksville is host­ing a Christ­mas wor­ship at 11 AM Fri­day. After the ser­vice, a free Christ­mas din­ner will be served. The church is at 812 E. High St. in Hicksville.

For cus­tomers in the Pauld­ing Put­nam Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive, there will be no gen­eral rate increase for next year. The man­age­ment team said all of the oper­at­ing expenses are actu­ally pro­jected to be slightly less than at the end of the year oper­at­ing expenses for this year. After care­fully review­ing the …

Defi­ance City employ­ees who are not in a union will be get­ting pay increases next year. The City Coun­cil approved the leg­is­la­tion at their last meet­ing this week. The 2.75% pay increases go to the cities non-union employ­ees. That’s the same as those given to the employ­ees of Defiance’s three …

Defiance’s 2016 bud­get is now in the books. The coun­cil approved it on Tues­day dur­ing its last meet­ing of this year. Next years bud­get is a lit­tle over $52 mil­lion. Next years bud­get pro­poses adding new employ­ees includ­ing an addi­tional engi­neer­ing technician.

The Mont­pe­lier Senior Cen­ter just received a $35,000 dona­tion from the estate of Jim Treer. He was a well-liked vis­i­tor to the cen­ter and a retired employee of Hutch’s Tow­ing and Recov­ery. He passed away on Octo­ber 29 at the age of 72. The dona­tion will go to the main­te­nance …

Bryan City Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion Pres­i­dent Glenn New­comer gave an update on the progress of the build­ing for grades six through 12. He said there’s a lot of con­struc­tion going on. He said work­ers are fin­ish­ing the out­side work and will pre­pare to move the focus inside the build­ing …