"You’re getting in-migration. You’re getting in transfers. You’re drawing more kids in," Jerome McKibben of McKibben Demographic Research told the school board. "But that deficit keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. You haven’t had enough births in this district to maintain your enrollment for 30 years."
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Democrat Jamee Decio, daughter of the late businessman and philanthropist Art Decio, says she moved back to Elkhart from Los Angeles in April to run for the Indiana U.S. House Disrict 2 seat held by Republican Rep. Rudy Yakym.
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Elkhart Schools won’t raise teacher salaries next year due to a budget deficit and state law. Superintendent Larry Huff says the pause is temporary.
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Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said the Senate will not convene because there are not enough votes in support of redistricting.
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St. Joseph County Economic Development Director Bill Schalliol says the county hopes the gas station on the opposite corner can remain, while noting the overpass has not yet been designed.
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A tax discussion drew more than 400 residents to the Goshen Theater on Wednesday, according to the city. “If you would have told me that hundreds and hundreds of people would come out for a lecture on taxes . . . I would say, ‘Only in Goshen,’” said Mayor Gina Leichty.
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LaPorte County prosecutors have charged Hudson Township Trustee Austin Kosinski with drunken driving after he admitted crashing into a car at a gas station late Halloween night.
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