Living under stay-at-home orders with many of our favorite shops and restaurants doesn’t sound like a recipe for building community, but Elkhart County residents have responded with many acts of grace as the state and country deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. By giving to charitable…
By Marshall V. King When Jill Swartz talks about Bristol, her hometown, she says “we” and “us” a lot. “It takes a village to do this,” she said as she sat in Cummins Park on a sunny, summer day. The park itself, behind the Elkhart…
2017 was a BIG year for the Vibrant Communities movement. With so much going on, the Steering Committee would like to hear directly from you. What projects or events did you find most exciting? What challenges or opportunities did you notice? Where should the committee…
Many people in Elkhart County know Rachel Shenk as the onetime proprietor of Rachel’s Bread, but did you know she’s a wonderful writer as well? She’s also still in the food biz with her cheese shop, The Wedge, at the Goshen Farmers Market. We loved…
You can be forgiven if you’re still coming off a high from last weekend’s Elkhart Jazz Festival. The 30th anniversary of the festival June 23-25 highlighted so the arts and culture, talent and creativity, and community spirit that makes the Elkhart area so great: A…
The Elkhart Jazz Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer, with big names such as Ben Folds and Ramsey Lewis headlining the dozens of performers on stages up and down Main Street in Elkhart. The jazz festival is without a doubt one of the…
The Middlebury community came together in a major way to helped make the Ridge Run Trail a reality. The amazing partners who worked on this project deserve a round of applause for their collaboration and creating a fantastic asset that enhances life for the Middlebury…
Building an engaging, creative and diverse Elkhart County community are ideas that are spreading its wings into local schools, thanks to the collaboration of advocates from Elkhart Community Schools, the Horizon Education Alliance and the Vibrant Communities initiative. Adam Meyers, a social studies teacher at…
From the satisfying crunch of apples in the fall to the burst in greens, reds, oranges and yellows in our salad bowls in the spring, Elkhart County farmers bring a treasure trove of fresh fruits and vegetables to the dinner table. In summertime, you could…
Elkhart County is more focused on the arts than ever before. The newly-founded Elkhart County Arts Alliance was formed partly in response to conversations during the Vibrant Communities Summit on the Future held in June 2016. The non-profit group was also created to formalize, strengthen…
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