Goshen

GOSHEN - Good reviews for a new parking plan in downtown Goshen. Reverse angle parking is gaining popularity, so the city is going to add more spots. Last summer, Goshen started a pilot program to test reverse angle parking near the downtown. That's where you drive past the spot and back in at an angle. Several spaces along Jefferson Street were converted to reverse angle to give local drivers a trial run. “We wanted to provide that opportunity to try that type of parking before we would implement it, you know at various other spots,” said City Engineer Mary Cripe.

GOSHEN - Students at Goshen High School got to leave early Tuesday afternoon. The superintendent's office says a water pump broke in the morning, causing plumbing problems and reduced water pressure throughout GHS. Goshen High released students at 12:45 p.m. School officials expected everything to be fixed by the start of after school activities. WSBT was told students needed to be out of the building, so crews could work on the problem. Goshen High School's home boys basketball game against Mishawaka Marian has been postponed, rescheduled for Wednesday.

GOSHEN - Police say vandals destroyed works of art created for an annual festival in Goshen, so now they're offering a $500 reward hoping to find who is responsible. Police say someone smashed more than 50 ice sculptures carved during the Fire and Ice Festival this past weekend, including the winner of a competition. If you know anything, please call Goshen police.

GOSHEN - An apartment house in Goshen caught fire around 8:30 Tuesday morning, and firefighters were quickly called to remove someone from the balcony of the building. Police are now ruling the fire an arson. The blaze was in the 100 block of S. 7th St. between Lincoln and Washington. The fire started in the kitchen and was contained to the 2nd floor of the older home that had been subdivided into an apartment house. When they arrived, firefighters found Lindsay Baker standing on the balcony of her upstairs unit.

GOSHEN - Sue Schrock's personal and religious beliefs are strong. “They are biblical and they are God-led and they are who I am,” she said. Ultimately, those beliefs that she should be able to control what goes into her own body led the hospice nurse and long-time Goshen Hospital employee to not get a flu shot - a vaccination she says she hasn't had in about 30 years. It also cost Schrock her job. “I just feel like it's a toxin I don't want in my body.

An update on a Goshen plant that is moving its work out of the country: The Indiana Department of Workforce Development announced that all workers of Cequent Performance Products are eligible to receive services under the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program. Those services include a wage subsidy of up to $10,000. The TAA program is made available to workers who are displaced due to shifts in production out of the country. Cequent is moving its plant to Mexico, putting almost 450 people out of work.

GOSHEN - The world's largest retailer is looking into plans to expand in Goshen. Walmart wants to build a new Supercenter on Goshen's North side where it already has a store at Market Centre on Elkhart Road. Plans call for a new 185,000 square foot Supercenter building to go up on vacant land there. When the new building is completed, the current building would be torn down and turned into a parking lot. The Goshen Plan Commission has already given tentative approval.

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) - A downtown Goshen landmark could be on its way to a fresh future. A few dozen people gathered Thursday morning to hear the results of a study of the Goshen Theater, a facility that has stood on Goshen's Main Street for more than 100 years. The building is in good condition, said Matt Janiak of Westlake Reed Leskosky, the architecture design firm that did the study, but suffers from some issues to do with past modifications and needs larger public areas and some technological upgrades.

GOSHEN - Police in Goshen hope surveillance video will help them track down the man who robbed a 7-Eleven early Monday morning. Officers were called to the 7-Eleven at 1000 S. Main St. just before 6 a.m. They spoke with one of the store employees, who said a man walked into the store, asking for cigarettes and demanded cash from the register. The robber then pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the employee. After being given the money, the robber ran from the store.

The family of a Goshen man murdered earlier this year is grieving again. They believe someone stole the cross from his memorial - at the site where he was shot to death. It has been almost 9 months since 26-year-old John Staub was shot and killed. "It was March 22 when it happened," said family friend Jessica Beachy. It hasn't gotten any easier for those who knew Staub. "It tore me apart," says Staub's father, John Stilley, "It tore everybody apart. " His family says Staub, a father of three, heard a fight was happening at a party that night and went to make sure a friend was okay.