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Leah Landes Biddle, center, and daughter Hadley receive “I voted” stamps from poll worker Barbara Potuck; Samantha O’Dell casts a vote Tuesday in First Presbyterian Church in Goshen
Dancers in costume dance with children during the Día del Niños event at DeliaMar Mega Shop on Thursday; ABOVE LEFT: Children play in a pile of foam during the Día del Niños event at DeliaMar Mega Shop on Thursday. ABOVE RIGHT: A machine shoots out foam as children play. RIGHT: Felipe Merino (middle), managing attorney at Merino Law Firm in Goshen, speaks to the audience at the start of the Día del Niños event.
Date
May 02, 2026
Page
A1, A2
ID
103484
Title of Article
City of Goshen moves to raise penalty for false alarms
Work continues on the demolition of the former Elkhart High School on Franklin Street. Crews hope to salvage the stone sign and columns, city officials said. The former school, replaced decades ago by the district, was annexed to the newer county courts building, which also will be demolished after the county completed construction of the Elkhart County Courthouse at U.S. 33 and Reliance Road in Goshen. City officials have said they plan to seek private development of the block in downtown Elkhart. The work for this phase of the operation is being done by masonry restoration company RestoreWorks, located in Chicago and Northwest Indiana; Work continues on the demolition of the former Elkhart High School on Franklin Street. Crews hope to salvage the stone sign and columns, city officials said. The former school, replaced decades ago by the district, was annexed to the newer county courts building, which also will be demolished after the county completed construction of the Elkhart County Courthouse at U.S. 33 and Reliance Road in Goshen. City officials have said they plan to seek private development of the block in downtown Elkhart. The work for this phase of the operation is being done by masonry restoration company RestoreWorks, located in Chicago and Northwest Indiana
Students present first doctoral dissertations at AMBS
Source
Elkhart Truth
Location
Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption
Janeen Bertsche Johnson, MDiv, of Goshen, (center) gives her AMBS Doctor of Ministry in Leadership professional dissertation presentation to listeners at AMBS in Elkhart and via Zoom on Jan. 29; James Rissler, PhD, of Macon, Georgia, gives his AMBS Doctor of Ministry in Leadership professional dissertation presentation to listeners at Atlanta Mennonite Church and via Zoom on March 4
TOP: Christina Camp, an AmeriCorps service member in South Bend, eyes the parts of her birdhouse before assembling it during the statewide AmeriCorps Day of Service in Goshen. BOTTOM LEFT: Nathaniel Wise, an Americorps service member with the City of Goshen, describes the species that will be attracted to the birdhouse project. BOTTOM RIGHT: Wise, center, explains the bee and bird habitat building projects to some of the 50 AmeriCorps members who participated throughout the day.
Goshen adopts roadmap for 3rd Street apartment project
Source
Elkhart Truth
Location
Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption
Renderings for a proposed apartment complex at 3rd and Jefferson streets in Goshen, Perspective View looking northwest from Third & Jefferson; Perspective View looking west in Courtyard
Attorney Felipe Merino holds up his passport while speaking at an immigration forum Tuesday in Goshen Theater; Goshen business owner Rafael Barahona speaks at the immigration forum; Goshen College student Sheila Herrera reads a letter written by another unnamed student while speaking at the forum in Goshen; Both levels of Goshen Theater were filled as people attended an immigration forum Tuesday sponsored by the Goshen City Democratic Party
