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February 2nd, 2011
No Democrat today
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Wrestling Off
Tonight’s wrestling team Regional at Adams Central has been called off and will be held Thursday night, weather permitting.
Bee rescheduled
The Adams County Spelling Bee at St. Joseph Catholic School in Decatur has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Clear hydrants
A spokesman for the Indiana State Patrol said at 8:30 a.m. today that a Level 1 emergency exists in "most of the 11-county Fort Wayne district" which includes Adams County.
A Level 1 emergency means that travel is restricted to emergency personnel only, the spokesman said.
Moderate snow continued to fall throughout the district. Interstate 69 and I-469 were said to be slick and snow-covered, although passable. State and county roads are snow-covered and in some cases impassable, the patrol said.
Two Bellmont freestylers are seeded fourth for Thursday's Jay County Girls Swim Sectional Prelims, frosh Rachel Klingensmith in the 100 free and Mikayla Voglewede in the 500 freestyle.
Chloe Mock, Megan Maynard, Kelsey Link and Erin Hunter are all seeded in the top 12 for Belmont in both of their events. Sarra EVans, Peighton Morlan, Hannah Mendez, and Bailee Hankenson are seeded in the top 12 in one of their events, notes BHS coach Drew Norby.
Adams County Emergency Management Agency Director John August said this afternoon that the county would be going to code red, the second-highest alert, at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Code red says the following; "Stop and think twice about driving. High winds and drifting occurring. Roads are totally snow-covered or ice-covered. County roads are mostly drifted shut and impassable.
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By ERIC MANN
Because of all the white, Adams County is black — meaning Code Black for the worst-possible road and weather conditions.
Patricia L. Mansfield, 78, formerly of Decatur, a former three-term Decatur clerk-treasurer, died on Tuesday in the nursing center at Swiss Village Retirement Community in Berne. Funeral arrangements are pending at Haggard and Sefton Funeral Home, Decatur.
Julia McCullough, 85, formerly of Geneva, died Tuesday in Chalet Village Health and Rehabilitation Center at Berne. Funeral arrangements are pending at Downing and Glancy Funeral Home, Geneva.
February 1st
When Trent McCormick brings his No. 5 rated Yorktown Tigers to Adams Central Wednesday, or on any weather-related make-up date, there's one thing he can be sure of: there will be 14 bodies and a host of coaches on the other side of the mat who will do everything humanly possible to send them back to Yorktown disappointed and defeated.
