Montpelier News

MONTPELIER - James Watters, 85, passed away at 1:50 a.m. Thursday, November 19, 2009 at Millers Merry Manor in Hartford City, IN.

Glenn and Vada Goodspeed celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on October 24, 2009.

HARTFORD CITY -- A Montpelier man this week pleaded guilty to a felony charge stemming from incidents that saw him take photographs with a cell phone, through a bathroom window, of a teenager as she emerged from a shower.

GASTON - Hilda Delight Dewees, 92, of Gaston, IN, passed away Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie.

Blackford County native Kevin Ford is seen on the aft flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this Aug.

Montpelier, IN native Kevin Ford piloted space shuttle mission STS-128 in August and September, following in the footsteps of Hoosiers like Gus Grissom and a long list of astronauts with ties to Indiana .

MUNCIE - David E. Mills, 61, passed away Sunday, October 11, 2009 at his residence after a brief illness.

HARTFORD CITY -- A former Montpelier Middle School teacher who admitted to having sex with an underage student has failed in his latest bid to win an early release from prison.

RICHMOND, Ind. -- Pauline Smith, age 81, of Richmond, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, at Reid Hospital.

Michiana residents have a rare opportunity to see a spaceship in the sky during the upcoming week.

While most of us travel at a speed of maybe 50 or 60 mph to work everyday, Notre Dame alum Kevin Ford will go about 17,000 mph to get to his job Friday -- the International Space Station! Ford is the pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery launch scheduled for 11:59 p.m. EST.

But when it does take off, a local Hoosier will be the pilot. Kevin Ford was born in Portland, and calls Montpelier, Indiana home.

Kevin A. Ford, the pilot on the space shuttle Discovery, which was launched late Friday, is an Indiana native and a 1982 University of Notre Dame graduate.

Kevin Ford, a local Hoosier from Montpelier, Indiana, will be the pilot for the space shuttle Discovery mission.

Kevin Ford, a local Hoosier from Montpelier, Indiana, will be the pilot for the space shuttle Discovery mission.

HARTFORD CITY -- There are a few hundred more bears in Blackford County. Gone are the blue and white Spartans, the mascot of the K-8 Montpelier School.

Kevin Ford, who earned a post-graduate degree in 1997 from the Air Force Institute of Technology, is scheduled to fly the space shuttle on an Aug.

A Hoosier will pilot the space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the international space station, NASA officials said Monday.

State Rep. Ed Clere will be host of a meeting Thursday to provide information to people affected by the Aug.

An Indiana astronaut will be the pilot on the space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.