Huntertown News

Asphalt Drum Mixers plans to expand its Huntertown, Indiana, factory by building the company's 1000th asphalt plant.

No one was injured Sunday morning in a garage fire on the city's northeast side, according to Fort Wayne firefighters.

'We're tickled pink,' Susie Hoot, co-owner of Chocolate Thimble, says of traffic to the store, which sells candy and offers quilting classes.

Trick-or-treating hours are 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday in Fort Wayne, New Haven and Huntertown.

Bill Hoot poses with a photo of him and Barbara Ayers, who received a kidney from Hoot in March.

Students study in the main classroom at Heritage Mission School. Photos by Samuel Hoffman Ten students attend Heritage Mission school.

Sara Stein dreads having to till the garden next spring. When one of her three children needed a new bike kickstand, the children didn't want her to fix it.

At a friend and coworker's suggestion, I give you this: Proof that I'm still not "from" Fort Wayne.

Emma Seiler, 5, aims her arrow at a target at the 2009 Jamboree Fundraising Bowshoot and Barbecue.

CHEERS to the wonderful volunteers from Tower Bank who donated their time as part of the United Way Day of Caring.

The following people were recently booked into the Allen County Lockup on felony charges - either on preliminary charges after arrest or after being transported from another facility - or were formally charged with a felony in Allen County.

An Allen County judge sentenced the wife of the former fire chief in Huntertown to a year of probation after a guilty plea to fraud.

In the City of Churches, there's another new congregation in a not-so-new spot. It meets Sunday mornings at 301 W. Superior St.

Grabill resident Lori Nash uses her golf cart to travel the block or so to her job, to pick up mail and to get to the grocery store often with her German shepherd and husband in tow.

Grabill resident Lori Nash uses her golf cart to travel the block or so to her job, to pick up mail and to get to the grocery store often with her German shepherd and husband in tow.

Riverside Manufacturing in Huntertown has been selected to Inc. Magazine's top 5,000 fastest-growing, privately owned companies across the country for consecutive years.

CHEERS to the stranger who bought gas for me at Circle K on State and Sherman boulevards on Aug.

Debbie Longenberger reads to first-graders Thursday, the first day of classes at the new Eel River Elementary School.

The paint is still fresh and the ground is bare, but the sign atop the building at 12723 Bethel Road proudly displays the name "Eel River." It has been a long time coming for this elementary school, with initial plans developed about two years ago.

The wife of the former Huntertown volunteer fire department chief pleaded guilty Monday morning to a single charge of fraud in Allen Superior Court.