Joe Spaulding

A local man is being held in custody without bond at the Adams County Law Enforcement and Detention Center after he was arrested on a warrant by police Monday charging him with 11 counts of battery, domestic battery, and strangulation.

A flagman working as part of a roadway crew at the US 224 construction site near CR 500 W was seriously injured Thursday morning at 11:47 a.m. after being struck by a pick-up truck that a witness to the accident estimated was going about 55 mph.

Officials from Post 43 of the American Legion chapter in Decatur have announced that starting at 8:30 a.m. this Saturday, they will begin the annual ritual of removing flags from the graves of the two cemeteries in Decatur that were in place to honor their military service.

A recent meeting of the Adams Central Board of Education made a “preliminary determination to issue bonds for the renovation of and improvement to school facilities, including the elementary school playground and site improvement, the purchase of school buses, and equipment and technology,” according to information received from the school.

The Sunday afternoon get-together at the residence of newly-appointed Union Township Trustee Karla Marbach with the township Advisory Board and nearly 25 township residents was billed as a continence of a meeting from last week that was supposedly called to hear input from individuals in the area and explain the 2025 budget.

The dwindling funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), given to City of Decatur in 2021 from the federal government, inched closer to becoming fully authorized Tuesday night by the Decatur City Council at their bimonthly meeting for October with requests granted for two projects.

Work by the Brooks Construction Company of Fort Wayne recently took a rough Adams Street into a nice, smooth street to travel on. The work on the street was one of many done in the city as a result of getting a 2024 Community Crossing Grant. The grant is funded by the gas tax paid by consumers filling up at the pump. (Photo by Joe Spaulding)

Numbers relative to population, employment figures, workforce, wages, and the overall economy of Adams County are what Colton Bickel does for a living as the executive director of the Adams

Additional work was done Wednesday in the investigation into the case of the two year-old child in Berne who died in Berne from hyperthermia on November 27, the day before

Robyn M. Runkel, 31, Fort Wayne, was sentenced to 40 years in state prison with 10 of those years suspended in a recent case in Adams Circuit Court.