The votes are tallied and the community has spoken: The Coolest Thing Made in Elkhart County is a water monitor designed and developed by SonSet Solutions. More than 4,000 votes were cast during the campaign for 30 different products made in Elkhart County, which ranged…
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…
There’s a certain adventurousness to Joshua Cooper and his craft. He moved to Goshen from Chicago and has made a home here. Joshua values the welcoming community and diversity of Goshen and saw the Little BIG Idea Grant as an opportunity to involve more people…
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…
Sure, bringing the community together around the arts is a great goal to strive for, but it’s just plain fun! When Nayo Ulloa (right, photo above) submitted his little BIG Idea Grant application for a Latino arts festival in the Goshen Arts Alley, it didn’t…
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…
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