The Syracuse Community is familiar with the victims in the double shooting early Thursday morning of a young couple who had both held jobs around Syracuse. Joshua Randall Knisley, deceased, and girlfriend Tara Thornburg both graduated from Wawasee High School. Thornburg is now fighting an uphill battle of recovery at the Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital …read more.

In just eight years, Doug Shoemaker worked his way up at Syracuse’s The Frog Tavern on the shore of Lake Wawasee. First he did all the odd jobs of an intern, then became general manager and now he owns the popular tavern and restaurant, including its 70-foot dinner houseboat, the S.S. Lillypad. Shoemaker bought The …read more.