The burned out remains of the Richard Simpson home stands along Bailey Road on Monday morning. Photo by Josh Sigler
By The Paper Staff
An early morning fire Monday, April 16, at a home on South Baily Road is under invesitagion.
Noble Township Fire Department responded to the blaze at the Richard and Jennifer Simpson home, 3166 S. Bailey Road at 2:18 a.m., according to Fire Chief Nathan Zinn.
The residents were not at home at the time of the incident.
Joe Halderman signs a letter of intent to continue his football career at Taylor University. Looking on are his parent Kari and Howard Halderman.
By Joseph Slacian
jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com
As a freshman at Northfield High School, Joe Halderman approached coach Brandon Baker and asked what he needed to do to play for the Norse.
“I just want to play varsity,” Baker said Monday, April 16, recalling the conversation. “I told him, ‘We’re going to be short lineman in a couple of years. He said, ‘I’ll do it.’ And that’s how he became a lineman. He just wanted to be on the field.”
The hard work and effort paid off for Halderman, who on Monday signed a letter of intent to continue his football career at Taylor University.
By Bill Barrows
I have spent an enormous amount of time researching and analyzing the game of baseball -- the game that I love. I have picked up different pieces of philosophy down through the years from a number of coaches and players, some that I have met, but most I have not met. Baseball is a game of discrete episodes rather than of flow, unlike basketball or soccer or hockey, baseball allows contemplation and conversation and a general awareness of where you are.
Why do we care so much about high level sports? We are more tribal, than we, in our modern vanity, like to acknowledge. We are creatures built----hard wired for primal allegiances. Baseball, as is sport, is junk food for the spirit, a narcotic, opium for the masses who understand it and indulge in it.
By Eric Christiansen
echristiansen@nmpaper.com
NORTH MANCHESTER -- Manchester proved to be too tough for Wabash as the Squire girls tennis team swept the Apaches for a 5-0 Three Rivers Conference win.
The Squires dropped just six games in singles play with Kelsey Eichenauer leading the way with a 6-2, 6-1 win at No. 1 singles over Lexi Hartley.
At No. 2 singles, Halle Briner also won 6-2, 6-1 over Brooke Irgang, and Lydia Little blanked Bella Carrillo 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3 singles.
