FORT WAYNE – Thanks to Longe Optical and PBS39 (WFWA), the TinCaps Reading Program has reached new heights in 2015. The influence of local partners will be on full display at Wednesday’s 11:05 a.m. TinCaps game when Parkview Field is set to host approximately 4,000 school children — a record number at one game. Longe …read more.

By BECKY BROWER Communication Services, Syracuse Public Library A free laser show to celebrate reading through the summer is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, May 8, at the Wawasee Middle School gym. Young people that read books during the summer explore thoughts and ideas while developing a relationship with the act of reading. Joining together …read more.

Indiana-based author and musician Brett Wiscons will release the third installment in his “Bear Whitman” book series. “Turn Three,” to be released in March 2015, builds upon the success of 2013’s “Friend or Foe” and 2014’s “Searching for Sara Caruso” and centers on the classic month of May in Indianapolis. In “Turn Three,” Wiscons tells …read more.

The caucus for the Wayne Township Advisory Board will be held at 7:30 p.m. this evening in the old Kosciusko Circuit Courtroom in the Kosciusko County Courthouse. There are two candidates for vying for the position. They are James L. Breading, 420 W. Kincaide St., Warsaw; and Erin N. Rowland Jones, 2632 W. 260 S., …read more.