BEAVER DAM LAKE — Cindy Gackenheimer has spent years focusing on healing the physical, emotional and spiritual matters in human lives. Now her focus is doing what she can to help the environment. Her focus is protecting butterflies and other pollinators with her “Flutterby Garden.” It all started by accident when they moved to their …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — Organizations in Kosciusko County have received more than $315,000 in grants to fight aquatic invasive plants and improve waterways. The funds were recently awarded by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Director Cameron F. Clark through the Lake and River Enhancement program. Invasive aquatic vegetation management grants were awarded to the Barbee Lakes …read more.

BEAVER DAM LAKE — Firefighting units from Burket and Mentone were called to a trailer fire near Beaver Dam Lake late Tuesday morning, Oct. 23. Kosciusko County dispatchers called out Burket EMS and firefighters at 11:45 a.m. for a trailer located at 9020 S. Smalley Lane in Seward Township. Burket almost immediately called for a …read more.

A 911 call for a burglary in progress resulted in the arrest of three individuals on meth charges today. Arrested were Shane Wesley Hallstrom, 21, Akron; Ashton Phillips Krider, 20, Silver Lake; and Caitlin Olivia Heisler, 20, Claypool. All three have been preliminarily arrested and charged with felony manufacturing methamphetamine. All three are being held …read more.

UPDATE: According to a report filed by the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, Alana L. Gonzales, 34, Ben Lane, Claypool, was traveling eastbound on W. 900 South near the intersection of 750 North. Her vehicle traveled off the south side of the road and struck a utility pole. Gonzales was able to steer the vehicle back …read more.

A $10,000 surety bond has been set for a Claypool woman who allegedly admitted to dealing heroin. Kosciusko County Drug Task Force officers say they received an anonymous tip Wednesday that Teresa Lavone Lambert, 48, was selling heroin out of her home at Beaver Dam Lake. Officers went to the home, at 7420 W. Bensart …read more.

Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating an accident that happened Saturday morning at the Beaver Dam Lake public access boat ramp resulting in a 15-year-old Silver Lake teen narrowly escaping a submerged vehicle. At about 10:40 a.m., Aubert Clevenger, 15, of Silver Lake, was attempting to back his uncle’s vehicle with an attached boat trailer down the ramp …read more.

One person was hurt just before midnight on Saturday in a motorcycle crash on South CR 750 West near Beaver Dam Lake. Samaritan air ambulance transported the male driver, William Dean Cloud, 48, of Claypool, to a Fort Wayne hospital for treatment. The driver was reportedly traveling at a high rate of speed and lost …read more.