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A Lafayette cultural event is celebrating 40 years. The Round the Fountain Art Fair is Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse. Juried event includes more than 90 artists from dozens of states showing and selling their work. Admission is free.

Indiana’s unemployment declined 0.2% in April. The Department of Workforce Development reports that was the largest one month decline in more than a year and happened even though there were fewer manufacturing and construction jobs available. Indiana’s unemployment is 8.5%, which is close to what it was in April, 2012.

The unemployment rate in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties fell in April – in most cases, more than a full point.

It is Easter week, 1913. Our true story unfolds with the anticipation and the excitement of a best-selling novel. Writing an hour by hour, day by day diary of the incredible weather events of that infamous week 1913, Geoff Williams develops characters that tug at our hearts in the few moments we know them, and paints a gripping picture of the many towns and states through which the totally unexpected weather would rage throughout the Midwest...from small towns to major urban centers.

Several Mintonye Elementary school students are being treated for injuries after the bus they were on crashed on Interstate 65. It happened around 2 p.m. Thursday near Zionsville.

Tippecanoe School Corporation Superintendent Scott Hanback says five students and seven adults were on the bus, returning from a field trip.

He says the students are enrolled in the Greater Lafayette Area Special Services (GLASS) program and have some type of disability. The bus involved is owned by the Lafayette School Corporation, which administers the GLASS program.

The Wabash Valley Youth Symphony and some special guests will present the orchestra’s final concert of the season Sunday evening at the Long Center. 

Public input is needed to create a strategic plan for a National Historic Landmark in Crawfordsville.

The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum staff and board members will craft and finalize the document this year.

Museum Director Larry Paarlberg says they want to know what they’re doing right and how they can improve.

"What are concerns? What are issues? Those will be then fed into the strategic plan, so we develop something where the museum can really play a vital role in the life of the Crawfordsville community, and really, west central Indiana."

The Lafayette Chamber Singers will present their Spring Concert Sunday afternoon at St. John’s Episcopal Church.  Jan Simon talks with Artistic Director Clayton Lein.

Lafayette School Corporation’s Sunnyside Middle School is altering its name. This summer, it’s set to change to Sunnyside Intermediate School.

School board members unanimously approved the move.

Superintendent Les Huddle says this name better reflects the school’s student body of fifth and sixth graders.

The Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette is awarding its latest round of grants. The $102,492.65 will help five organizations with larger projects.

The Furniture Bank is buying a truck thanks to donations from several groups, including the Foundation. The organization that helps those with a housing emergency received a $20,000 grant.

The bank is run by First United Methodist Church with several nonprofits and the City of Lafayette. Volunteer Jeanne Norberg says the box truck will pick-up furniture donations and can now deliver it to people getting back on their feet.

A Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Deputy is being awarded the department’s highest honor.

Randall Martin received the Medal of Valor for rescuing a seven-month old child who was trapped in a vehicle in a crash on U.S. 231 South near Romney.

Martin broke through the rear window and pulled the baby boy from the burning car and handed him off to a fellow rescuer.

Sheriff Tracy Brown says Martin performed his duties in the face of great danger.

The infant’s mother was killed in the June 4th, 2012 accident.