Granger

Statewide advocates for electric ratepayers and the environment came to Granger Wednesday night to talk about the data center that Microsoft will start building this summer. They urged Microsoft to be more transparent and they called on St. Joseph County officials to watch out for constituents as they negotiate a development agreement.

Urban planning expert and St. Joseph County Council candidate Jan Cervelli says even though the council already has approved the rezoning Microsoft needs for its Granger data center, the company should be transparent in how the center is developed.

St. Joseph County Council member Amy Drake says the county gave Amazon too many incentives and tax breaks for its data center near New Carlisle, so she's glad Microsoft won't seek a property tax abatement when it starts building a data center near Granger this year.

St. Joseph County prosecutors says 34-year-old Dustin Pate faces much more serious charges of attempted murder after resisting arrest with outstanding theft and probation violation warrants that had threatened to return him to prison.

The agreement gives the parties two months to map out a service area for Mishawaka water and sewers across a four-mile radius beyond city limits into Granger.

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.

The WVPE photo of the week is called "Bumble Bee Visits Lemon Lily” and was taken by Heather Miller Moriconi of Granger. It’s a blissful bumble bee gathering nectar and pollen from a luminous lemon lily.

St. Joseph County Police say 6-year-old Joshua Nizigiyimana had wondered from his family's Granger home and somehow got into a vacationing neighbor's pool.

St. Joseph County parks bought the Anderson Road farmland in 1999 when Granger was growing rapidly but had never found the money to develop a park there.

The St. Joseph County Sheriff's Department declined to release the children's ages until their investigation of the fire's cause is finished.