Winamac Police Chief Tyler Campbell welcomes the kindergarten students to "Pop Tarts with Police" on Friday, Dec. 16. The event is grade level specific and gives the EPES students a chance to meet the officers and ask questions.
The memorandum of understanding between the town of Winamac and the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation for the School Resource Officer (SRO) passed at a regular meeting on Nov. 14. Town attorney Justin Schramm clarified that he drafted the document and made the needed changes to ensure...
On behalf of the town of Winamac, Winamac Police Chief Tyler Campbell recently approached the county council about potentially making a financial contribution to Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation's School Resource Officer (SRO) program. After some deliberation and discussion, the council...
The Winamac Metropolitan Board of Police Commissioners reconvened for their first meeting since February to approve the advertisement for the hiring of a seventh officer. The department is looking for an additional officer due to Officer Pickens going to the police academy in January and Lt. Ryan...
A School Resource Officer (SRO) may soon be walking the halls of the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation thanks to an upwards vote from the Winamac Town Council to proceed pursuing the matter. Chief Campbell said that Lieutenant Austin would be assigned to the school during the school year...
Since Aug. 1, there has been a total of 95 calls for service to the Eastern Pulaski School Corporation. Winamac Police Chief Tyler Campbell said that potentially a School Resource Officer (SRO) could help increase school safety and reduce the number of internal situations. Campbell said that this...
As the weather gets warmer and summer approaches, kids of all ages will be soon be out and about on their bicycles. The Winamac Police Department sponsored a bike rodeo on Saturday, May 21 to educate kids on a variety of safety measures to help them practice being cautious and vigilant around...
Winamac Police Chief Tyler Campbell came before the board to introduce new hire Shelby Pickens to the council. A $2,500 bid for cemetery mowing was also unanimously approved by the Winamac town council at a regular session held on Monday, March 14. The approved bid was one of two bids that were...
A tax abatement for the company Standard Integrated Solutions was approved at a recent Winamac Town Council meeting on Oct. 11 to further assist them in purchasing robotics as well as hiring new employees. Standard Integrated Solutions, with the abatement, is planning on investing roughly $1.7...
According to the Winamac Town Council meeting on Monday, July 12, the Winamac Police Department is going to be continue to pass out warnings and eventually fines to those who have continued to violate the town's golf cart ordinance. At the meeting, council president Tom Murray brought up that he...