LARWILL — Contentious issues in the southwestern Whitley County/southeastern Kosciusko County school corporation of Whitko Community Schools has fostered a larger than usual number of candidates for that school district’s school board. The field of six candidates, which includes one incumbent, are vying for two slots on a board, which has been challenged in recent …read more.

Richard Breed Thomas, third child of Gardner J. and Katharine Lindsay Thomas, was born May 11, 1925, and passed July 18, 2015. Richard “Dick” was born and raised in Marion. Following high school, Dick joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and became a Flight Officer during WWII. He returned to Indiana and earned a Mechanical …read more.