Diabetes education classes are beginning tonight at IU Health Starke Hospital. Presenters will be Dr. Byron Holm and Meg Meznarick, RD, CD.
Tonight’s class will be Introduction to Diabetes. There will be three classes in the series that will be each Thursday night from 6:00-7:00 p.m. CT.
The Starke County Economic Development Foundation will be holding it’s “Prospectus and Achievements Night” next Thursday evening, November 10th.
Several awards will be given out that night. For the very first time, the Foundation is recognizing those industries which have been actively involved in business within the county for 50 years or more.
Executive Director, Charles Weaver, says the first to be recognized is almost 100 years old.
A Lapaz man was arrested by Starke County police after his passenger suffered injuries in a single moped accident in the Koontz Lake area last night.
According to police, Donald Kissinger was traveling along County Road 1200 East on his moped and he told police that he swerved to miss a deer and lost control of the moped causing the passenger, Teresa Clark, to fall off the moped. When she fell off, she struck her head on the roadway. She was transported to Walkerton High School where a med flight took her to Memorial Hospital in South Bend where she remains in critical condition with a head injury.
Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department officers arrested three after finding an active meth lab at a residence in Star City.
Officers were contacted by a representative of Child Protective Services who received a complaint of a possible meth lab in a residence with a child present. CPS and officers arrived at the home of Kaltrina Neely and Greg Tarr and they interviewed Neely. While officers were at the residence, drug paraphernalia was reportedly found in cabinets where police could see it in plain sight. The evidence was later gathered by the Indiana State Police Clandestine Lab team. Upon further questioning, police learned that Kaltrina Neely, Billy Neely and Loralie Fritz allegedly admitted to smoking methamphetamine shortly before the police arrived at the residence. Kaltrina Neely allegedly told the CPS representative that they had been cooking meth at her residence. Neely gave officers consent to search the property where an active meth lab was reportedly found in the detached garage and a burn barrel. The Indiana State Police processed the scene and removed evidence of a meth lab.
A public hearing will be held tonight from 5:00-6:30 p.m. CT at the Knox Community Center to discuss the condition of downtown Knox.
The hearing was called by Mayor Rick Chambers in response to an appearance by Gene Blastic before the City Council who represented the Starke County Economic Development Foundation. Blastic detailed options for the 114-year-old building that houses the offices of the Development Foundation. It was built in 1897 to house a drug store. More recently, there was an attempt to open a movie theater in the corner building that is located at the intersection Lake and Main Streets.
Blastic said the building might be rehabilitated or it might be demolished.
In the course of Blastic’s presentation, he suggested the City and the Development Foundation form a partnership to consider a Master Plan for downtown Knox.
The initial meeting will include the Downtown Redevelopment Committee, city officials, and others in the community who might be interested in helping to craft that plan.
Two well-known people are squaring off for the North Judson Clerk-Treasurer’s position in the General Election on November 8th. Republican Donna Henry is challenging Incumbent Democrat Connie Miller.
Donna enters the race after a 38 year career in banking. She’s married and the mother of three children, plus she is a lifelong resident of North Judson. We asked Donna about plans if she is elected.
The Starke County Economic Development Foundation will play host to its “Prospectus and Achievements Night” on Thursday, November 10th at 5:30 p.m. CT at the Knox Community Center.
Several awards will be given that night, and over the next few days, Charles Weaver, the Executive Director of the Development Foundation, will announce the recipients.
Four industries will be getting expansion awards.
Officers from all Pulaski County Police Departments participated in firearms training last Wednesday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. The training took place at the shooting range near Medaryville.
Sheriff Michael Gayer told WKVI the training was a chance for the officers to get in their qualifications.
Knox City Police were called to 208 S. Main Street in reference to a fight on Monday.
According to the police report, three juvenile girls were reportedly fighting and hitting each other. The parents then got involved. Charles McCarty reportedly pulled up to the scene and went after James Baldridge who told police McCarty allegedly pulled out a knife. Kelly McCarty then reportedly hit Misty Baldridge in the face after McCarty exited the vehicle with Charles McCarty. Misty Baldridge reportedly tried to break up the fight between the juvenile girls and that’s when she was allegedly punched in the face.
Starke County Deputy Treasurer, Casey Clark, is reminding residents that the next installment of property taxes is due November 10th. You have several ways to make your payment.
You can pay in the office, or by mail but it must be postmarked by November 10th. There is a drop box on the side of the building, or you can pay online at by clicking here. You will be charged with a 3% fee.
Clark announced that there will be no tax sale this year.
Happy Birthday to a Knox business that WKVI has had a long relationship with. Five Star in Knox opened on this date 47 years ago today.
The first manager, and part owner, was Ben Lipke.
At one time, Five Star had seven stores, and Ben remembered opening the store here.
Officers from the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department arrested two after a traffic stop and one tried to escape police custody after being admitted to the hospital after being tased.
Early Sunday morning, officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on State Road 119 in Winamac but the driver of the vehicle refused to stop and was traveling at a high rate of speed. The driver eventually drove into a driveway on Washington Street and the driver and the passenger were ordered out of the vehicle. When officers conducted a search, they allegedly found bath salts in Adam Koske’s possession. The driver, James Penicaro, was allegedly found to be intoxicated.
The Second Annual WKVI Great Pumpkin Drop has filled the Community Services of Starke County Food Pantry, for now.
We asked Cecilia Torres-Bowman, Services Coordinator at the Starke County Food Pantry if she could use all of the food brought to the location.
Today our 2011 Campaign Spotlight turns to a Board race in Hamlet. The candidates are Democrat Dean Goble and Republican Dave Kesvormas.
Dean Goble is a lifelong resident of Hamlet. He attended schools in the Oregon-Davis School system. He is married and has 3 children and 4 stepchildren, and is a painter working out of Union Local 460 in Merrillville.
The West Central School Board is looking to do some technology upgrades throughout the Corporation.
Superintendent Charles Mellon said a Committee has been formed to study the needs of technology at the Corporation. The Board and the committee are focusing on piloting a one-to-one computer initiative, similar to the program at Knox Community Schools, where the students have their own computer and the curriculum is on that computer that the student is responsible for. Mr. Mellon said that they may phase-in the program by grade level, if it is approved.
The Starke County Traffic Safety Partnership will be conducting a Safe Family Travel patrol November 11th through November 27th.
This blitz is a grant from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute and will focus on impaired drivers and seat belt enforcement.
What would you do if you were a school Superintendent and there was a high school coach who qualified for the state tournament 25 out of 25 years?
You’d probably recommend him or her for a raise. Well John Glenn’s High School Spell Bowl Team has qualified each year that Paul Hernandez has been coaching them. Of those years, they have been state champs in their class 15 times.
Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 6th at 2:00 a.m. This Saturday night, or Sunday morning at 2:00 a.m. prevailing time, you will need to set your clock back one hour.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 marks the change in the observance of Daylight Saving Time. It officially begins on the second Sunday of March and end on the first Sunday in November.
The Sandhill Cranes are back at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area. Jim Bergens, the Property Manager, was asked how many of the big birds have migrated to the property so far this season.
“We count on Tuesdays and the last two counts have been in the six to eight thousand range,” said Jim Bergens. “The average peak is 16-20,000 and it occurs in late November, early December.”
Bergens talked about the cranes’ migratory pattern.
“The birds are coming from Wisconsin and going to Central Florida and Jasper-Pulaski is right underneath that route. We just have the right kind of habitat that they like and often times, some of the cranes may spend several weeks here which is why we build up such large numbers. Then they push on south and they winter from Kentucky and Tennessee all the way to Florida.”
Costumes were judged last night after a rigorous hour-and-a-half of trick-or-treating in Knox. The event was sponsored by the Knox Friends of the Park organization and it was held at the Knox Community Center. The judges had their hands full with three categories to judge in age groups 0-5, 1st through 5th graders and 6th through 8th graders. There were definitely some unique costumes!
Here are the winners: Continue reading
