SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School’s football field will have a significantly different look by August. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee school board Tuesday evening, April 18, in Syracuse, the board approved entering a contract with Cincinnati-based The Motz Group for a new artificial turf field to be installed at the high school this summer.

WARSAW — I have historically waited until spring to prepare my garden soil for planting. Tilling is messy and difficult in the spring mud and semi-frozen ground. Compost doesn’t have much time to break down in the soil. It honestly isn’t the most effective means of enriching my garden bed soil.

By AMY MUNCY Master Gardener Intern At this time, my own yard needs a lot of work as a new septic system was just installed. You need to be careful what you plant around septic systems, as some long term plants can cause damage. The biggest problem I’ve heard of is tree roots getting into …read more.

  A few Wawasee High School students will literally be crawling into a hole, but it’s not because of anything they’ve done wrong. Instead, it’s part of the National Land Judging Contest May 5-7 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Four Wawasee students — Mason Germonprez, senior, Kevin Schlipf, senior, Conner Sausaman, junior, and Jared Templin, junior, …read more.