The 91st Indiana FFA State Convention was held virtually June 16-19.

Wawasee High School senior Evan Coblentz is one of 19 FFA members from across the state who are preparing to interview for the opportunity to serve as an Indiana FFA State Officer in the coming year.

With an unexpected challenging year for Kosciusko County students, the Kosciusko Board of Realtors is still pleased to be able to announce 2020 scholarship winners. Evan Coblentz, Olivia Long, and Jack Stewart are this year’s winners.

SYRACUSE — Evan Coblentz has been named valedictorian and Michael Hammer salutatorian for the Wawasee High School Class of 2020. Evan is the son of Allen and Mindy Coblentz of North Webster. Evan plans to attend Purdue University and major in animal science with a pre-veterinary concentration. He has been active in FFA, serving on …read more.

SYRACUSE — Indiana ranks dead last in the United States in teacher salary increases during the last 15 years. Twenty-one percent of all school districts will receive less state funding than the previous year. Those are among the reasons a rally will be held Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Statehouse in Indianapolis to encourage more …read more.

MENTONE — Two local high school students have been selected as Indiana Delegates to attend the prestigious World Food Prize Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa. Mallory Bowers Mallory Bowers, a sophomore at Tippecanoe Valley High School, and Evan Coblentz, a senior at Wawasee High, both had to first compete at the Purdue Youth Institute …read more.

SYRACUSE — Far from the literal overnight cramming occurring when some students write research papers, Evan Coblentz spent an entire trimester researching and writing a paper about animal health problems existing in the dairy cattle industry in Uganda. His detailed work resulted in him being one of five students from Indiana selected to attend the …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — The Wawasee FFA Dairy Judging Team recently competed in the 50th anniversary of the Invitational Youth Dairy Cattle Judging Contest in Harrisburg, Pa. Team members were Evan Coblentz, Kayla Estrada, Logan Hollar and Jackson Templin. The team finished fourth overall in the FFA division. As a team they were first in Guernseys, second …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — The 2018 Kosciusko County 4-H Royalty will be announced at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 5, at the Kosciusko County Extension Office, 202 W. Main St., Warsaw. The Kosciusko County Royalty Contest began in 1968. At that time, the 4-H junior leaders selected the king and queen. Gary Boggs and Cathy Bryant Shipley were …read more.