Wintry weather came to northeast Indiana with force, with snow and frigid temperatures causing local school districts to cancel in-person classes for several days this week.
BUTLER â DeKalb Eastern employees wonât have to go far for medical care.
In the case of staff members at Eastside Junior-Senior High School, itâs within walking distance of the school.
On Jan. 4, the Northeast Indiana School Insurance Trust opened a clinic at 306 Hampel Drive â using part of the former Butler Elementary School building â with Everside Health as the medical provider.
Thursday, school officials and the clinic staff celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The clinic currently is open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, but the goal is to offer additional days and hours as membership grows, according to Cathy Jarvis, Eversideâs vice president of operations for the northern Indiana region.
While neither team was able to cut down the nets, Eastsideâs boys and girls basketball teams matched some history this season.
For just the second time in school history, both the Blazer boys and Blazer girls reached sectional championship games.
In February, the girls lost to Bluffton 38-31, and the boys lost to Churubusco Saturday 49-41.
The only other time this happened was the 1976-1977 season. The Eastside boys lost to DeKalb in the championship game, but the girls won the first of three straight sectional crowns, defeating Angola 41-38.
The girls have played for sectional championships on eight occasions, capturing titles in the 1977, 1978, 1979 and 2016 seasons. Of their four losses, two were by seven points or less.