Cass Y starting softball league
The Cass County Family YMCA is beginning a co-ed softball league that will start in early June.
Games will be played on Sunday afternoons at Riverside Park.
For more information, call Dave Hardin at (574) 753-5141.
Meeting slated on application
A public meeting is planned to allow for input regarding the recovery act grant that the Cass County Sheriff’s Department is seeking.
The meeting will take place at 3:30 p.m. May 15 on the second floor of the sheriff’s department at 100 Court Park in Logansport.
Tickets on sale for chicken bash
WALTON — Lewis Cass Junior-Senior High School is hosting a Happy Burger chicken bash and choir concert on May 15.
Dinner is from 4:30 to 7 p.m. and the concert begins at 7 p.m.
The meal includes broasted chicken, baked potato, cole slaw, roll, butter, cookie and beverage. Carry-out will be available.
All meals are presale only. Tickets will be sold until May 7 when all money must be turned in so chicken can be ordered.
Concert tickets will be available at the door.
Prices are $10 for adult combo, which includes dinner and concert; $8 for adult dinner only; and $5.50 for a child combo, for ages kindergarten through 8 years of age, which includes dinner and concert.
The cost for child dinner only is $4 and concert only is $4.
Children under school age get into the concert for free.
State police issue 1,419 citations
Lafayette — Indiana State Police at the Lafayette Post recently released statistics for March.
Troopers issued 1,419 traffic citations and wrote 1,272 traffic warnings. Troopers also arrested 29 alleged drunk drivers and made 160 criminal arrests.
With spring weather approaching, farmers will be out on the roads moving machinery from field to field. Farm machinery only travels at 15 to 25 miles per hour. State police want motorists to be sure to give themselves plenty of room to slow down or even stop for machinery turning into fields. Also, motorists need to give them extra room to maneuver around corners and into driveways.
Coffee with mayor set for Saturday
Mayor Mike Fincher will be holding his monthly “Coffee with the Mayor” at 10 a.m. Saturday.
This month he will be at Tommy P’s Boardwalk Café at 501 E. Broadway. The public is welcome to join him.
Booths available for rummage sale
ROYAL CENTER — The Pioneer Elementary PTO is still renting out booths for a schoolwide rummage sale.
The sale is planned from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the elementary school gym.
Booth rental is $20 and each participant will receive a 12x12 booth with one table and two chairs. Booths will be rented out on a first-come basis.
To rent a booth or for more information, call Teresa Montgomery at (574) 722-1381.
Local News
Area briefs April 29
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No jail for driver in fatal hit-and-run
A 25-year-old Logansport man admitted Thursday to leaving the scene of a deadly wreck last year, but he will not serve any time in jail as the result of a plea agreement.
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Board backs 51 percent spike in utility rates
For Paul Hartman, the issue facing the Logansport Stormwater Management Board is pretty simple.
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13-foot statue celebrating arts to stand in Logan
Logan’s Landing danced a little closer Thursday to sprucing up the downtown area and crafting the arts and design district it’s been longing to create.
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Stormwater board OKs rate increase
The Logansport Stormwater Management Board this morning approved a 51 percent increase in its monthly rates.
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LHS senior prank
As a senior prank, Logansport High School students moved the cow from in front of Happy Burger West to the Berry Bowl this morning. It was all in good fun, though. Bob Shanks, the owner of Happy Burger, was even on hand to pose for pictures.
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‘It’s not about you’: Local mom shares journey of adopting foster children
Foster parenting isn’t always easy, says Juanita Jackson. Between caseworker visits and baby-sitting restrictions, the 42-year-old balances work and caring for five children as a single mom.
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Longtime Lewis Cass teacher fired over license
Notwithstanding the impassioned pleas on Scott Rouch’s behalf, the Southeastern school board unanimously voted to cancel his teaching contract for “neglect of duty and other just causes.”
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Jeremy Franklin charged with two felonies
A special prosecutor this week filed three charges, including two felony counts, against the son of the Logansport mayor.
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Logan multiplex still in the works
Plans for a multiplex in Logansport are still in the works, but at least one city official hoped the process would move a bit quicker.
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Ambulances moving: Hospital says change will save $200,000
Rural/Metro, Cass County’s newest ambulance service, told Logansport Memorial Hospital that it plans to move out of the ambulance garage at the end of its lease in September.
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