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On Tuesday St. Joseph County Commissioners will consider an agreement to let Mishawaka extend water and sewers to Microsoft's proposed data center in Granger. The agreement also calls for the city to extend water and sewers to undeveloped parts of Granger, annexing where it can, including existing subdivisions with well and septic problems.
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South Bend Police DepartmentGirl yells, 'You can't touch me, fool!' while officer Sam Chaput replies, 'Yes, I sure can.' -
Michael Gallenberger/WVPE“I personally think it’s very important that people on this board be able to see the police video: bodycam, car cam, et cetera,” said community police review board member Cheryl Ashe. -
Peter Ringenberg/FacebookSouth Bend is preparing for budget cuts tied to Indiana’s Senate Bill 1, starting with reductions in the city’s legal department. -
ProvidedThe city of Mishawaka rushed to stake its claim to serve the planned Microsoft data center when it learned that St. Joseph County officials, knowing Granger residents oppose being annexed by the city, plan for a private nearby water utility to instead serve the site. -
Black Lives Matter South Bend Facebook video“I don’t have enough information to make a determination on any legal strategy or legal moves," said civil rights attorney Andrew M. Stroth. "I just want to know what the heck happened.” -
Michael Gallenberger/WVPE“There’s a million ways that could’ve been handled,” Fred Teague told the South Bend Community Police Review Board on Thursday. “That should’ve been deescalated.”
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The children and neighbors of St. Joseph Church in South Bend gathered to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year. It seems as if they were literally and figuratively “hanging on to summer”!
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