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Lady Vikes place fifth in Warsaw

By Jeff Hoover on Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The Huntington North Girls' Swim team finished up the Sectional on Saturday in Warsaw. The host team took the Sectional crown with 284 points. The Lady Vikes tied with Columbia City for fifth place with 151 points behind Culver (223), Logansport (192), and Plymouth (166)...

Three Regional Champs!

By Jeff Hoover on Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Eleven Huntington North Vikings traveled to Peru to compete in the IHSAA Regional Wrestling meet. Three Vikings returned to Huntington as Regional champions with two runner ups and one third-place finisher...

HNHS Girls Swim Sectionals at Warsaw

By Tom Stong on Friday, February 5th, 2010

The HNHS girls swim team made a great splash at the sectionals at the Warsaw high school natatorium on Thursday evening. The team, lead by head coach Reed Christiansen with assistant coaches Heather Wilburn and Stephanie Skiver, will compete against 12 other skilled squads in the sectional finals Saturday in Warsaw...

Governor speaks on Indiana health

By Rick Henly on Friday, February 5th, 2010

In comparing Indiana's economic outlook to neighboring states, Governor Mitch Daniels says that he's happy that 'we made tough decisions' while other states are dealing with downturns in their economies now...

Lady Eagles Soar Over Lady Vikes

By Jim Landrum on Friday, February 5th, 2010

The Lady Vikes varsity (4 – 15) played the Columbia City Lady Eagles (13 – 6) at Huntington North Arena on Thursday night in their last basketball game of the regular season. The Lady Eagles came into the game riding an eight game winning streak...

Crestview sweeps county tourneys

By Lamont Neal on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The eighth grade county tournament final at Huntington North Arena Wednesday night saw the Salamonie Rebels take on the Crestview Cougars.

The Cougars came out on a mission with fire in their eyes...

Seventh grade county tournament finals

By Lamont Neal on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Boy’s county tournament finals at Huntington North arena Wednesday eve saw the seventh grade Crestview Cougars come out firing. Caleb Landrum scored ten of his game high eighteen in the first quarter as the Cougars jumped out on the Riverview Raiders early...

Girls BB sectional tickets on sale now

By Rick Henly on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Girls basketball sectional tickets go on sale Thursday, February 4th at Huntington North high school.

Tickets are $9.00 for all sessions.  They will be sold until noon on Friday Feb. 12th...

Dowden named to Board of Directors

By Rick Henly on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The members of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) have selected G. Blair Dowden, president of Huntington University, to the NAICU Board of Directors...

HNHS Bowling Teams Win Sectional

By Jim Bischoff on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Portland Indiana - The sixth ranked Huntington North Viking and fourth ranked Lady Viking bowling teams won their sectionals Saturday afternoon at The Brown Bowl in Portland.In the match for the sectional title, it was all Vikings as they rolled 202-203 for a 405 total against Bluffton’s 271(146-125) to claim the Hoosier Conference sectional title...

Eighth grade tourney first round action

By Lamont Neal on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Salamonie took on the Huntington Catholic in the first game of the eighth grade middle school tournament at Salamonie. The Rebels jumped on the Rams early as they built a 16-3 first quarter lead. The Rams played tough and with heart but couldn’t match up against the Rebels balanced scoring attack...

First round middle school tourney action

By Lamont Neal on Monday, February 1st, 2010

In the first game of the boys seventh grade middle school tournament the Riverview Raiders took on the Kodiaks from Montpelier at Salamonie middle school. The Raiders jumped out to the early lead behind Derek Snyder’s 12 first quarter points and looked to be pulling away when the Kodiaks put together a run at the end of the first half to get it back to a six point game at 22-16...

Middle School conference survey

By Mark Dubois on Monday, February 1st, 2010

Dear Stakeholder,

Riverview Middle School, along with Crestview and Salamonie, has been invited to join the Northeast Lakes Middle School Conference.  We are encouraging our stakeholders to participate in an online survey to see if this is a step that our schools should consider...


Sports (4 Latest Articles)

'Pink Out' this Saturday at HU

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 8th, 2010

This Saturday, February 13th, the women’s basketball team will host its second annual “Pink Out.”  The event will honor and celebrate breast cancer survivors during halftime of the Huntington University vs... Read More...

HNHS bowling teams on to regional

By Jim Bischoff on Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Eagles visit W.A.C.H.E.

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 8th, 2010

Lady Vikes place fifth in Warsaw

By Jeff Hoover on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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Living (4 Latest Articles)

Ricks chooses Huntington

By Jeff Hoover on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Submitted by Joanne (Miller) Green

HUNTINGTON, IN—Tri-West High School standout, Sam Ricks, has signed a Letter of Intent to continue her basketball career at Huntington University next fall... Read More...

Kramer to become a Forester

By Jeff Hoover on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Governor speaks on Indiana health

By Rick Henly on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Gulley to speak at Foundation breakfast

By Jeff Hoover on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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Education (4 Latest Articles)

February Peer Awards are named

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 8th, 2010

Huntington, Ind.— Huntington University Peer Award recipients for the month of February are Nancy Barnes and Bob Landon.

Heather Barkley, marketing and web specialist for the EXCEL Adult Degree Programs and a previous award recipient, passed the Peer Award to Nancy Barnes... Read More...

Athlete of the Week at HU

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 8th, 2010

Crestview January Students of the Month

By Jennifer Jennings on Monday, February 8th, 2010

Northwest's 3rd Grade Social Action

By Doug Hinthorn on Monday, February 8th, 2010

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Churches (4 Latest Articles)

Upcoming New Hope events

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 8th, 2010

New Hope UB Church will host a concert by the quartet - God’s Call - on Sunday February 14th at 9:00 a.m.

Ladies Night Out will be on Friday the 19th... Read More...

Upward Basketball is Cancelled on Feb. 6

By Cari Lindsey on Saturday, February 6th, 2010

New Hope to offer grieving support

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 1st, 2010

St. Peter Quilters to hold luncheon

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 1st, 2010

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Non-Profit (4 Latest Articles)

disAbilities Expo set for April 10th

By Jason Meyer on Monday, February 8th, 2010

On April 10, 2010 from 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., Turnstone will host northeast Indiana's first disAbilities Expo at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum! The event is FREE!

The disAbilities Expo will offer something for everyone! disAbilities Expo 2010 will include:

- KEYNOTE Speaker Jude Stringfellow! Jude is the owner of Faith, the two-legged Dog... Read More...

Muzzleloader Classes to begin

By Jeff Hoover on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

4-H Fair Board meeting scheduled

By Jeff Hoover on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Summer Program positions

By Jeff Hoover on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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Marketplace (4 Latest Articles)

Look at Value, not just Price

By Rick Henly on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Most investors pay a great deal of attention to the price of their investments — yesterday’s price, today’s price, tomorrow’s price, next year’s price and so on... Read More...

Partin joins staff at Thorne Insurance

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 1st, 2010

Burn 500 calories in 30 minutes!

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 1st, 2010

Keep Your Dog Busy In Winter

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 1st, 2010

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Government (4 Latest Articles)

Democratic business meeting

By Jeff Hoover on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Attention all Democratic Precinct Committee People and Democratic Party: There will be a Business Meeting on Thursday February 18th, 6:30 p.m. Location: Democrat Headquarters 20 N... Read More...

Meet your elected officials Feb. 27

By Rick Henly on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Comprehensive Ethics Reforms

By Jeff Hoover on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Agricultural property assessments

By Jeff Hoover on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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Opinion (4 Latest Articles)

Insurmountable property tax problems?

By Rick Henly on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Dear Editor,

The problems as I see it concerning the property tax problems are almost insurmountable using the current methods to calculate values. The politicians that keep patting themselves on the back about how they are going to make the assessed values the basis for taxing our properties just don’t have a clue... Read More...

Are we ready for change?

By Rick Henly on Monday, February 1st, 2010

County Assessor tells the facts

By Rick Henly on Friday, January 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Parties offering illusion

By Rick Henly on Friday, January 29th, 2010

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