Luke Griner, a 2019 graduate of Wawasee High School, was one of eight students from Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District accepting appointments to the U.S. Service Academies’ Class of 2024. The announcement was made Wednesday, June 24, by U.S. Rep. Jim Banks.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jim Banks announced last week that a student at Warsaw Community High School was named among four students from Banks’ district who have accepted appointments at U.S. Service Academies as the Class of 2023. Noah Marshall said he is eager to attend the United States Air Force Academy later this year. As …read more.

In all of my years in daily journalism, including more than ten covering local elections, I’ve never seen a mayoral candidate shun the media the way Republican mayoral candidate Ron Shoemaker has chosen to do so in Warsaw. Shoemaker, a city councilman who faces fellow Republican Mayor Joe Thallemer in the May 7 primary, had …read more.

Four people will compete to be the first judge of the new Superior Court in Kosciusko County. According to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office, the candidates are: Robert Bishop, an attorney who works in the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s office and oversees child support; Lindsey Grossnickle, a deputy prosecutor in Whitley County; Christopher Kehler a longtime local attorney, and Chad Miner, …read more.

SOUTH WHITLEY — Congressman Jim Banks offered reluctant support for President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency as a way of providing more funding to expand construction of a wall along the southern border. The topic came up at a town hall meeting hosted by Banks at the South Whitley Community Public Library Thursday …read more.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Jim Banks introduced two pieces of legislation this week aimed at increasing oversight of reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and at properly honoring unclaimed remains of deceased veterans. One such bill, labeled H.R. 698, would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to Congress and …read more.

WARSAW — U.S. Rep. Jim Banks announced that a member of his staff will be in Warsaw and Columbia City on Thursday, Jan. 3, to meet with local residents and assist Hoosiers experiencing problems with a federal agency. Members of Banks’ staff also are available in his Fort Wayne office in the E. Ross Adair …read more.

WARSAW — U.S. Rep. Jim Banks will be in Warsaw at noon today, Friday, Oct. 26, visiting at the Republican headquarters. Join Banks and others for pizza and pop, courtesy of Banks. The Republican headquarters is located at the corner of Lake and Center streets, Warsaw.

FORT WAYNE — U.S. Rep. Jim Banks announced that a member of his staff will visit Warsaw and Columbia City on Thursday, Sept. 6, to meet with local residents and assist Hoosiers experiencing problems with a federal agency. The staff members will be in Warsaw from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Warsaw City Hall, 102 …read more.

WARSAW — U.S. Rep. Jim Banks announced that a member of his staff will visit Warsaw and Columbia City on Thursday, Aug. 2, to meet with local residents and assist Hoosiers experiencing problems with a federal agency. The staff member will be in Warsaw on that date from 9:30 a.m. to noon at City Hall, 102 …read more.