Goshen

"I’m a dreamer," Andy Stephenson told city officials Friday. "I like to be innovative and come up with new things."

Planners’ preferred alternative would widen U.S. 33 to four lanes between Monroe Street and Plymouth Avenue and five lanes from Plymouth Avenue to Kercher Road, including a center turn lane. Other planned improvements include an eight-food-wide multiuse path between Monroe and Kercher, plus new curbs and sewers.

Elkhart County’s H-1B hiring rate trails the national average, with 25 new hires in 2025. Manufacturing led local approvals, according to a new analysis.

Drivers can learn about proposed changes to U.S. 33 in Goshen. The Indiana Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Goshen High School.

Event organizer Richard Aguirre says the immigration forum is hosted by the Goshen City Democratic Party but it's not meant to be a rally against the Trump Administration or ICE.

Mennonite congregations are calling on Target to take a stronger stand against federal immigration enforcement actions. Congregations from the Michiana area gathered outside Target’s Goshen location Saturday, carrying signs, singing hymns and calling for the defunding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Goshen's Ben Ganger can't say how he did in this year's Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions but at least his first episode airs Wednesday.

"We do want to be exceedingly careful," Mayor Gina Leichty recently told the city council. "This is not a ‘bring your six-pack to the park’ kind of ordinance."

The city council Monday locked in annual cemetery fee increases of roughly three percent for the next 10 years. While those annual increases have been a longstanding practice, Mayor Gina Leichty says the city still has to dip into its general fund to cover the full cost.

“That project was relying in part on a financial structure that would have taken advantage of the federal Investment Tax Credit, which provided a 30-percent reduction in cost,” Assistant City Attorney Don Shuler told the city's board of public works and safety last week.